A flood of images, faces, names come tumbling when one begins to recall the different gentlemen teachers who taught us in St Xavier’s. The most inimitable was of course, Mr. Brandon who was a master storyteller and entertainer. We all looked forward to his period. No work, just fun.

Yash Chow recalls “I remember Mr. NL Jain as he would take 2 straight classes of Physics and in about 30-35 minutes of teaching, would say poker faced “This is Electricity for you.” Apparently, NL Jain had finished entire 3 year syllabus for Physics and Chemistry in one and a half year. When Piyush Mehrotra once said, “Sir I do not understand this step in the equation”, NL Jain promptly said, “it is not necessary you understand everything. Just ‘ajzume’ it is like that!” But apparently ISC guys had more respect for their maths teachers – Mr. Mathai & Shri S.N. Sharma

Mr. Nair was the biology teacher with a heavy Malyali accent. Pavan impersonates Mr. Nair convincingly with his pet line: “Simbly Causing Trouble”! His pronunciation of many words was very typical. While the AIHS gang had to dissect frogs, the ISC got cockroaches, which as Deepak Chibba confessed, “Microscope or no microscope in the dissection of the cockroach, I could not see the brain in 2 attempts. I may have subconsciously decided to stay away from Medicine! “

Somani recalls Pandit Hukam Narain who was a Shashtri and a Sanskrit scholar. He used to wear a Topi and according to Aditya’ he really liked to punch hard on the backs of the erring students. Basant Khaitan remembers that Mr. RL Sharma, our Hindi teacher, was so pleased when students called him guru ji and touching his feet! Then there was the dapper Mr. Simon who taught English. Batch mates fondly recall his beautiful wife who rode ladies cycle and always wore skirts. They immigrated to Canada.

Please contribute on other male teachers like Singhada, Mr. Anand Singh Junia, Mr. Pareek , Mr. Asrani ! Tall & hearty Mr. Sebastian, the Infirmary in charge? Not worth including?