Thursday, November 19, 2009
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Besant Theosophical High School, Adyar
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It is really wonderful to see all the connections you have made and linked especially with Headmaster Krishnaratnam’s daughters. I really like the idea of publishing all our thoughts and memories in one website and one can read all the contributions by one click, gather and share all connection and the information.
ReplyDeleteMy recollection of our Headmaster Krishnaratnam Sir is that of his love for tennis. I remember when my mother had organized the tournament at Mandavelipakkam Ladies club for the juniors, Krishnaratnam Sir sent the largest number of entries of nearly 45 students. I remember his enthusiasm for the sport and he would come to the finals of the matches that included Ramanathan Krishnan, Premjit Lal and Jaideep Mukerjee. My sister Chitra and I joined Besant school in 1959 in 1st form and graduated 6th form in 1965. My father used to drop us at school in the beginning. He had a motorbike and I was little and I used to sit in the front of the bike (actually on the tank) and my sister would sit behind him as pinion rider. On days we were late to school it would be very obvious as the motorbike sound would announce to whole school our late arrival during the Assembly time and we of course will meet our Headmaster after the assembly to tell him that we were late because the motorbike wouldn’t start!!! After we grew up into 7th or 8th standard the excuses were different- We would give the excuse that “the bus was late”. He would grin but try and hide it with a stern look that sometimes made you shudder.
I remember vividly standing outside Headmaster’s house and listening to the Davis Cup Tennis match commentary when the Indian Tennis team lost the match to Australia in a close tie.
My affinity towards biology was solely developed because I had the greatest teacher early in my life and headmaster really made me love the subject by the way he taught the subject. Whether it was a flower or the frog, the ease with which he taught had a lot of influence on my ending up as a Microbiologist. Although I was not the brightest student I made decent grades in biology more than any other subject. Besant school students in the late 50s and 60s are very fortunate to have had him as a Headmaster. He was one of a kind with personality and trait that we could look upon with admiration, respect and veneration. More to continue.................... Thara Narasimhan - Class of 1965