THOSE DAYS........... Christmas taught Me How To Travel All " ALONE " As A Kid Of Age " TEN " Then

The " A " Dormitory Boys' Of Christ Church Boys' Higher Secondary School, 1975-76 Batch

THOSE DAYS...........

Most of the time between 1970 to 1976 was spend at the Hostel

The TWO School were I spend those time were Carmel Convent Hostel, Bishrampur  ( 1969-1970 to 1972) for three years and the Hostel of Christ Church Boys’Higher Secondary School at Jabalpur,from  ( 1972 to 1976 ) for FOUR years.

At Carmel School we would have a seven days of School Holiday/Break for the Christmas where I would travel from Bishrampur to Duman-Hill Colliery where my Father was posted as Executive Engineer then at the Coal field at Surguja.

Later on he was transferred to Pathakhera Colliery near to Betul at the Betul  District at Madhya Pradesh very near to the Sarni Thermal Station Electricity Plant where I would have to travel from Jabalpur from the CCBHSS Hostel to Itarsi and then change the train from Itarsi to Ghoradongri and from there travel by a Jeep to Pathakhera Colliery. However the break of the Christmas holiday at the CCBHSS at Jabalpur was long , and consequently we were at our home for a longer duration of time.

We  would be at the home with our family members as the C C B H S S School would have a Month Off break from December 10th to about January 7th every year

WE WOULD ANXIOUSLY AWAIT FOR THE CHRISTMAS TO APPROACH AS THAT WOULD TAKE US TO OUR HOME TO BE ALONG WITH OUR PARENTS.

That was the IMPORTANCE of the Christmas for us- the "JAIL-BIRDS " who were known as the HOSTELIERS/BOARDERS  of CCBHSS, then.

The boarding life was UNIQUE and it was this life which made us a - " MAN " for all the season and the hostel life made us very DIFFERENT when still it boils down to taking on the WORLD.

The exposure that we got in our life at the HOSTEL/BOARDING.....it is something that NOBODY would TEACH us or IMBIBE those qualities in us- for that made us- " STEEL"

Thanks to the  Christmas Holiday which taught us HOW TO TRAVEL ALONE when our age THEN was HARDLY " TEN "

A ten YEAR old HOSTELIER travelling from Bishrampur Hostel all the way to Duman-Hill or a 12 year boy travelling ALL ALONE from the Hostel of CCBHSS to Pathakhera via Itarsi and Ghoradongri. Those memory still lingers and then the nostalgia’s of many an incident flashes acroos our eye which makes us a bit heavy as the eye also becomes moist.

NEVER WILL THE PRESENT PARENTS ALLOW THEIR CHILDRENS DOING IT NOW -        " NEVER " to travel alone.

That is what we became and imbibed  the tough and the hard quality while staying at the HOSTEL and THANKS-" CHRISTMAS " for the same.

Memoirs and the Memory- ::

Certain " MOMENT'S " Of Life Becomes A " MEMORY " Never To Be Forgotten.......

This is the photo of the C.C.B.H.S.S School's HOSTEL of the 1976 batch of the “ A ” Dormitory.  .This is the " A " Dormitory of the 1976 batch, of the hostel of CCBHSS.  . Some of them  might be NOT alive now but most of them are still alive. Many are NOT in contact. However the faces at times LINGERS and WHAT A GRAND TIME OF YOUTH THAT WE HAD AND THE FRIENDSHIP THAT WE LIVED TO ENJOY THOSE MOMENTS .

Now-a-days only when I remember those moments the EYE becomes MOIST. Those days will NEVER come back to life- " NEVER " again .....

THANKS , Prasanna Salsingikar, my class mate and my batch-mate at the School who was a days’ scholar at that School, who gave this photo to me and I still preserve it. This was the photo,  who , as he, send me this photo on the New Years eve and THIS perhaps is the BEST prize that I won this year.

I'm sitting on the THIRD from the LEFT on the row, there in the first row, sitting,  that is posed SITTING between K.K.Dutta ( expired ) who is on my RIGHT and Deepak Gupta, The CHIEF PRESIDENT , Reliance Industries Limited, who is on my LEFT , with the Matrons', the Chief Of Hostel Warden, and the Canon, Principal James Eric Robinson, the Principal of the School then. 

That is it 

Regards and Thanks

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Shyamal Bhattacharjee 

Mr Shyamal Bhattacharjee, the author was born at West Chirimiri Colliery at District Surguja, Chattisgarh on July 6th 1959 He received his early education at Carmel Convent School Bishrampur and later at Christ Church Boys' Higher Secondary School at Jabalpur. He later joined Hislop College at Nagpur and completed his graduation in Science and he also added a degree in  B A thereafter. He joined the HITAVADA, a leading dailies of Central India at Nagpur as a      Sub-Editor ( Sports ) but gave up to complete his MBA in 1984 He thereafter added a Diploma In Export Management. He has authored THREE books namely Notable Quotes and Noble Thought published by Pustak Mahal in 2001 Indian Cricket : Faces That Changed It  published by Manas Publications in 2009 and Essential Of Office Management published by NBCA, Kolkatta  in 2012. He has a experience of about 35 years in Marketing .

Signature Of Shyamal Bhattacharjee 

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