It was in the month of october 1999, ours was the second batch of ICSE.there came a notification about award ceremony organised by ICSE council going to held in XLRI jamshedpur auditorium. All school heads including principal and vice principals were invited. We as a student of 10th standard took it casually and were having our own gala time with friends, most of the school in jamshedpur having a very profile teachers and principals they come in big cars (cars even maruti 800 was considered as status symbols) and dressed like they are going for party, it dosen't means that they were not good teachers, they were indeed very good in teaching. Now comes aur school AAES, a school, opened its arm for poors,needy,gunda party,intelegent,deciple of other school students and all varity of faces and background. The senario was exactly like XAVIERS and MODEL college of JO JITA WAHI SIKANDAR.most of the boys in my school was having low confidence especially infront of heavenly creature called "girls",and few have so much confidence that they some times forget to wear their spectacles, some were secret lovers and some so bold that they were ready to fight a war with teachers. So in a nut shell it was like a FAKIRA CHANACHUR having each ingredients to its perfection.
Our principal was a very simple lady or rather i would say simplicity as synonymous to Madam Benedicta, but same time very strict also very strict. She come with a old moped LUNA where hardly anyone except can sit. Her voice was enough to make pin drop silence in class imagin what her presence could do. I was studing in this school from nursery till ICSE but it took almost 11 years to understand her philanthrophy.I remember one incedence in whitch one of my senior involved in a fight with the local boys, they all were waiting out side my school gate beating each one comimg out, this news came to her and she alone went out and shouted to them that if they want to beat her sons then it would be her first. She was the living example of adminstration, knowledge, philanthrophy and most important a motherhood. She never married because she already has a large number of kids. She was well known among the parents and even she knows every parents individually.
BACK again...with a bunch of friends riding bicycle we use to go for tution in SAKCHI and while returning back we use to come from near XLRI auditorium, we saw many cars parked some very beautiful cars some average. some driven by drivers and some by their husbands, then i saw a old lady coming in luna and recognised her as our principal. She saw us and smiled and stoped we had a small chat in which we come to know that she came for the award ceremony and went away. One of my friend started gigling and said look all principal came in such wonderful cars and our principal came in jet flight (showing her luna). We also smiled and went back to our respective homes.
Next day when we were in assembly and saw a big trophy we were surprised and latter on came to know that she begged the best principal award. We could not understand how to react, in shame for making fun of her travelling in luna or in proud of being her so simple. That day i understood the meaning of the famous line said by Mahatma Gandhi "Simple living and high Thinking".
She was latter retired from that school and now running her own school opened with couple of people of the same frequency, the fee is so nominal that any one can study there..... wish her a long life .....GOD BLESS HER
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