Practice before you preach...Suffer the Sun before you Screach!!!

Summers in our part of the world (read Basketball Courts-cum-Assembly grounds, NCS,Navy Nagar) are always unbearable.This time around is no different.The scorching cement of the court and humid airs of morning hours make you wonder...why???Is the assembly sooooo imperative.What with the seniors swaying with delirium, I can imagine the condition of the younger ones.And one student fainting or collapsing or vomiting per assembly per day is now a part of the routine.Humidity as the News-Reporter tells us is soaring to alarming 70-80% and temperatures are close to 33-35 degrees.But that surely doesn't seem to perturb the authorities or the teachers.

Why?Well, quiet simply because they are well protected by the life-giving shade of the trees or TIFR builidngs.Fine..somehow we will survive the envy of seeing our teachers in shades or in technologically air-conditioned offices, as is the case with some of them.But then comes out the Prefectorial Board, precisely after both the ever-lasting prayers are over, in a group reminding me of the cast of 'Ocean's Eleven'.And then starts the horrendous checking of belts, position, posture and everything possible.Ij ust have one thing to say to all of them- before you preach us, check yourselves dears...and before you ask us to stand patiently in the unnecssary assembly(given the beautiful intercoms!!), try standing on the boiling court..every day..every week..every month...and sadly..every year!!!

Tejas