Back-to-school: Rewind to the ’90s: The leap of faith from pencil to the ink pen
The leap of faith from pencil to ink pen was never going to be easy and we did it our way! We battled our way through smudgy ink pens, tippled ink pots, uniform stains and broken nibs! It had been an anxious moment when the class teacher had announced on the very first day of […]
Back-to-school: Rewind to the ’90s: Geometry box
The glistening, orange (Camlin) or red (Nataraj) geometry boxes were not just about drawing the perfect circles or finding the right angles. We learned new ways to make the geometry box more interesting and memory forever! We waited with much excitement for our math class teacher to come to class. As per the instructions received […]
Back-to-school: Rewind to the ’90s: Water colours and projects
Armed with water colours and a paintbrush, the writer reminisces how he fell in love with more than colours one school year! Through the whole of last year, I had been secretly admiring her. This year, to my delight, we had been seated together. I could see her eyes shine brightly through her spectacles as […]
Back-to-school: Rewind to the ’90s: Pencil fights!
Our oldest friend in school! We wrote our first words with it, drew our first masterpiece with it, and scribbled our first love letter with it. can’t thank it enough! It was a daily occurrence, to enter the class and find our friends huddled around a dustbin, sharpeningtheir pencils. Quickly, we too would join them […]
Back-to-school: Rewind to the ’90s: Brown paper and school books!
The heady papery smell of new books and the fear of the new session’s syllabus, all wrapped up in brown paper, with snipping scissors and sticky sellotape strips (of course with a little help from mom too!) One of the first lessons we learnt in teamwork was the brown paper wrapping exercise for our new […]
Back-to-school: Rewind to the ’90s: Chart papers, Fevicol and glue sticks!
the different hues of Chart PaPer, the Carefully kePt bottles of Joker Gum and feviCol. Childhood ProJeCts were all about PiCtures, Colours and havinG a lot of fun!
Back-to-school: Rewind to the ’90s: Cold water from the Milton bottle
Almost always a Milton, the many memories linked to the water bottles are still so fresh. As we left for school each day, mom would do a quick quality check on us by scanning the usual cause of complaints/ discipline issues. The hair would be combed/ plaited one more time, the nails would be checked […]
Back-to-school: Rewind to the ’90s: Did you get hauled up by the class monitor for dirty shoes?
They came in all types and sizes. Regular and rainy. Canvas and black. They were a constant source of punishment for us, we had to keep them clean to stay out of trouble.
Back-to-school: Rewind to the ’90s: Magnetic pencil box, did you own one?
The old plastic pencil boxes were no match for these sleek magnetic pencil boxes! they won our hearts in an instance!
Back-to-school: Rewind to the ’90s
The thoughts of waking up early for school and (gulp!) homework loomed in the mind and the vacation’s blue summer skies were slowly getting murkier as June approached, bringing with it, another year of school.
