Memoirs of Christ Nagar L

Hi everybody,

Nice to contact all of you once again. Still eagerly waiting to see the get-together photos. Renjith, send please.

Continuing with the memoirs session (the 50th session), today we shall remember the Talents day : It is a day when the students take over charge as teachers in Christ Nagar. It was there in all years of our schooling in Christ Nagar from the 5th to the 10th. It used to be on July 31st or August 1st each year. In the morning Assembly, the Principal hands over the golden key to
the Student Principal and student Vice Principal. The speech and further proceedings are by the Student Principal only. Then, the classes will be taken over by the student teachers. The real teachers will be behind them of course, and give marks to them the whole day. In the evening assembly, the best teachers are awarded, and the golden key is returned, another uniquity of our school. In our 10th Std, remember our student Principal Ramesh S, and the Student Vice Principal Sanju Mathew.

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Want to be a student teacher again? Nooo. Try to be a good teacher at least.

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XLIX

Hello all,

Nice to see the reports from the get together, and the new enthusiasm in Dinkar & Shibu. Hope to see the photos posted by Renjit soon. Moderator, kindly add the new mail IDs of Renjith Sanu and Siby P John that I sent in my previous mail.

Continuing with the memoirs session, today we shall remember our Sports & Arts Competitions : The school sports day used to be each year in or around February. There used to be athletics (100 & 200m dash, long jump, high jump and others), and games like basket ball, football, cricket & others (list incomplete). We had four houses named Olympics, Expo, Everest & Apollo. The toppers in each game or athletic, as well as the best house is awarded for sports. Remember the performance of our basket ball team and hand ball (Binu VV).

The Arts Competitions used to be in verbal forms and dance forms separately. Those who come on top are sent for the Youth Festival (Revenue Dist first, then to State), and given prizes. Remember the performance of Sandy TS and Suraj S of our batch in the Youth Festivals.

To continue in the coming sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XLVIII

Hi all,

I am so happy to see the memoirs arranged into blog (I didn't do, as I did not know how to make it). Congrats to Nitish. CONGRATS to NITISH MATHEW once again (Belated) on your marriage.

Continuing with the memoirs on the events of our batch, today we shall remember the School day celebrations: We used to have school day celebrations each year in the month of Feb or March. It was a function held on one day in the evening and night. There used to be a series of talks, including the Principal, Vice Principal, Innauguration by a renowned person, Presidential address (usually some film actor or a minister). There used to be a toast to the outgoing students by some junior, followed by a reply to the toast by a 10th Std student. These boring sessions were usually sandwiched by songs of various types. Later, there used to be dances of various kinds, skits & dramas etc. Prize distribution in various fields like General Proficiency &
Moral Science, Sports & Arts Competitions etc.

To continue in the coming sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XLVII

Hi all,

HAPPY MARRIAGE WISHES to VINAY N SHENOY. Continuing with the memoirs session, today we shall remember the Onam celebrations :


We used to have an Onam Celebration each year on the last day of the first terminal examination (in some years), or on the very next day . We had it on all years except our 5th Std (when even the 1st term exam was incomplete). The most interesting feature was that many of us started wearing mundu or lunki for the first time in life in those days. Athapoovu competition was held between the batches in some of the years. It reflects the artistic talents many of us have. By afternoon, we all meet each other and disperse. Missing again (esp those who are staying out of Kerala)? Doesn't matter, keep missing.

To continue in the coming sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XLVI

Hi everybody,

Nice to contact all of you once again. Contact me on 94465 78791 in Trivandrum. Continuing with the memoirs sessions, today we shall remember the X'mas Fete.

Every year, the day the school closes for Christmas vacation, we used to have this festival, another unique entity of our school. We had the same on all years except of course, the 5th Std (1987). Remember how we waited to receive a bag of eatables, usually with cake, orange, ladoo, banana and others before the occasion (once that day's exam is over). There used to be Christmas carols & other songs. Ballades and skits are usual attractions. A Christmas MESSAGE used to be given by a renowned person, usually a bishop (once Rev Susai Packiam, once Rev.Samuel Amritham) or a film actor or a minister. The most wanted attraction is the 'CHRIST NAGAR BEAUTY CONTEST'in which one from each batch dress like a girl, and come on stage. One of them used to be awarded prize. Another attraction is the LUCKY DIP in which each of us vie with each other to get a Christmas cake. Remember how we used to blow up the coupons after tearing them to pieces, once we come to know that we are among the unlucky ones. Another attraction was the arrival of the SANTA CLAUS from nowhere, and distribution of sweets associated. Usually, this is preceded by crackers, and other lightworks.

Missing your school, right? Want to study there again? Bu..t, no, you can't. At least send your children. ha ha ha..

To continue with other events in the coming sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XLV

Hi to my dear batch,

Nice to contact all of you once again. I am here in TVM. My mobile no is 94465 78791. All of you, keep in touch.

Continuing with the sessions on Christ Nagar Science Fair memoirs, Remember the events like Skeletal smoking and others which were really fascinating. Remember the models of dams or others made and affixed at each of the corners of our school in each floor.

5th Std - No Science Fair (due to strike)
6th Std - Science Fair on Oct 7 to 9 (1988), followed by health talk by Sri Ananda Bose IAS.
7th Std - Science Fair on Oct 20 to 22 (1989)
8th Std - Oct 12 to 14 (1990).
9th Std - Oct 11 to 13 (1991)
10th Std - Oct 9 to 11 (1992)

All of you, miss our school, right ? ?

I would like to see additions from others as well. To continue in the further mails about Christmas fete,

Yours sincerely,
Dr.Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XLIV

Hi to my dear batch,

Nice to contact all of you once again. CONGRATULATIONS to RENJU PHILIP on your marriage. Belated wishes to you. May the Lord give you a long and happy married life.

Continuing with the sessions on Christ Nagar memoirs, I am starting off with our favourite events. I am starting with the Science Fair.

Science Fair : It was a unique entity of our school. We used to have it in three days. The previous day used to be a holiday to prepare the things ready. The stalls used to be named as Working Models, Still Models, Charts, Collections (stamp, coins, feathers etc) Experiments & Improvisations, Music, English, Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, Mathematics etc.

Day 1 (Friday) – It used to be the neighbouring school students from morning till evening. The evening used to be a health talk by some renowned person.

Day 2 (Saturday) – Again, it used to be the neighbouring school students from morning till evening. The evening used to be a health talk by some renowned person.

Day 3 (Sunday) – This day, the students, parents of our school are allowed to see the stalls, and obviously, there won't be many to explain to them. The evening talk will be usually succeeded by prize distribution and other entertainments.

To continue in the coming sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Dr.Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XLIII

Hi all,

My condolences on the demise of Latha teacher. I am now in Trivandrum

Continuing with our memoirs, the list of lady teachers (Please add if missed any):

Annamma Thomas
Annie Eapachen
Annie George
Annie Ignatius
Annie Mathew
Arundathi Sinha
Betty Balan
Geeta
Jeyalekshmi
KP Anniamma
Latha (late)
Leelamma Kurien
Lisamma
Mary Rose
Rema Nair
Stancy

To continue with more of memorial events in the next session.

Yours sincerely,
Dr.Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XLII

Hi all,

I am back in Trivandrum yesterday, and will be here some time. I could meet some like Surej etc, want to meet more. Any plans of batchmeet?

To Thomas sir, I tried to register my name in the Alumni group form that you sent, but the form could not be 'submit'ted in spite of repeated trials. Thanks for all your efforts sir. Before we close our memoirs session, let us remember our teachers.

A Suresh
Aravindakshan Nair
CS Paramanandan
Devadas E
Fr.Berthold
Fr.James Pattarkalam
Fr.Thomas Vempala
Gabriel N Kumar
Gangadharan Nair
George Eapachen
George Mathew
Harikrishnan
Harindran Nair
Jayaraj
Joseph Louis
Joseph Sylvester
K P Suresh Kumar
MA Varghese
Madhavan Nair
Madhu D
Mathew
Moses
Natarajan
PJ Carri
PJ Jacob
Sukumaran
Thankappan Pillai
Thomas Devasia
Thomas Joseph
TT Antony
Vinod
Vinod M
VK Joy

To continue with the lady teachers in next session,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XLI

Hi all,

Nice to contact all of you once again. I hope to meet many of you when I come home to reach there on the 12th. My contact phone no in TVM is 0471 2438791 (after 12th). Continuing with the memoirs of Std X (in 1993), April was uneventful.

May 26 – SSLC results published. Of the 270 of us who applied for the exam, 211 got distinction,
56 first class, 2 second class, and 1 didn't write exam (Rajeev Rajan Pillai). Eight of us got good ranks in the top 15 of state. Ashams got the 2nd rank (585 marks), Praveen Velappan and Shiju Majeed the 7th rank (580), Cherry Jim the 9th rank (578), Ramesh S the 11th (576), Boban R and Ravikrishnan the 12th rank (575) and Thushanth Thomas the 14th rank (573).

May 31 – All our marks published in the school notice board
Jun 3, 4 – Get SSLC book, and other certificates to leave the
school.

Long live Christ Nagar !!!

Sad to see the poor response from our batchmates. In the next sessions,I devote to remember our dear teachers.

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XL

Hi all,

Nice to contact all of you once again in this new year. All of you, please keep in touch.

Continuing with the memoirs of Std X.E,
Starting off in 1993,
Jan 12 – School closes for study leave
1st Model exam
Jan 20 – Mal I, Mal II
21 – Eng I, Eng II
22 – Hindi, Hist
25 – Geo, Phy
Jan 26 – Republic Day
27 – Che, Bio
28 – Maths I, Maths II

Feb 3 – Get marks of the Model exam
Our batch Social
Feb 5 – School Anniversary
Union Model Exam
10 – Mal I, Mal II
11 – Eng I, Eng II
12 – Hindi, Hist
15 – Geo, Phy
16 – Che, Bio
17 – Maths I, Maths II
Feb 25 – Get marks of the Model Exam
Sign SSLC book

SSLC exam in March
10 – Mal I, Mal II
11 – Eng I, Eng II
12 – Hindi, Hist
15 – Phy
16 – Che, Bio
17 – Maths I, Maths II
29 – Geo (as the paper leaked out on the 15th)

To continue in the coming sessions,
Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XXXIX

Hi all,

Wish you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007. When is our batch get together ultimately? If it is after Jan 12th, I shall be there. Or, have you already conducted it? No news about it. Regarding Deepu's query, I started keeping one diary since 1990. So, events after that has contributions from that as well.

Continuing with the memoirs of Christ Nagar in X.E,
Sep14 – School reopens for the second term
Sep30 – School youth festival
Oct 2 – Gandhi Jayanthi
Oct 5,6 – Pooja
Oct 9 to 11 – School Science Fair
Oct 12 to 18 – Holiday due to floods of 10th.
Oct 24 – Monthly test IV(Phy, Mal, Hindi)
Oct 31 – do (Geo, Maths,Eng)
Nov 7 – do (Bio,Hist, Che)
Nov 14 to 16 – Holiday due to the floods of 14th.
Nov 19 – Monthly test V (Hindi, Phy, Mal)
Nov 21 – do (Geo, Maths,Eng)
Nov 28 – do (Bio, Hist, Che)

Dec 6 – Demolition of the Babri Masjid
Dec 7, 8, 9 – Strikes each day due to different political parties
Second terminal examination
Dec 10 – Mal I, Mal II
11 – Eng I, Eng II
12 – Hindi, Hist
14 – Geo, Phy, Moral
15 – Che, Bio
16,17 – Holiday due to Revenue Dist youth Festival
18 – Maths I, Maths II
X'mas Fete
19 – Computer
School closes for vacation
Dec 29 – School reopen for third term

To continue in the coming sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XXXVIII

Hi to my dear batchmates,

HAPPY MARRIAGE WISHES to JIMMY JOSEPH
HAPPY MARRIAGE WISHES to ANOOP

Send the snaps of the get-together in Trivandrum. My condolences on the death of father of Dr.Renjith.S. All of you, please keep in touch.


Remembering the important events in 10th std (X.E),
In 1992,
May 4 – School reopens
May 28 – I Monthly test – Eng, Hindi, His, Geo
May 29 – Monthly – Mal, Maths, Bio, Phy, Che
June 11 – Bakrid
Jun 16 – Bant
Jun 20 – II Monthly test
Jun 27 – Do
July 4 – Do
Jul 20 to 22 – Holiday in view of communal riots in and around
Poonthura
Jul 25 – III Monthly test
Jul 29 – Karkada Vavu
Jul 31 – Talents day (many of us became student – teachers) (Ramesh S becomes the Student Principal and Sanju Mathew becomes the student Vice Principal).
Aug 3 – Monthly test III
Aug 8 – Monthly test III

First terminal examination
Aug 26 – Mal I, Mal II
27 – Eng I, Eng II
28 – Hindi, Hist
31 – Geo, Phy
Sept 1 – Che, Bio
2 – Moral
3 – Maths I, Maths II
Sept 4 – Onam celebrations in school, and closed for vacation
Sep 9 – Thiruvonam
Sep10 – Miladi Sherif

To continue in the coming sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Dr.Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XXXVII

Hi to my dear batch,

WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY CHRISTMAS. Happy marriage wishes to Boby George.

Continuing with the sessions of Std XE,

Geography : It was taught by Moses sir. He taught us the instruments used in Geography, the various parts of the lithosphere (crust, mantle,core and others), the parts of the atmosphere, the important wealth of India & Kerala, countries (Israel, Germany, Iceland).Remember tomorrow is Winter Solstice (longest night & shortest day in Northern hemisphere). Remember us drawing India 's map (5 mark question) and marking Delhi , Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata, Vishakpatnam, Kandla etc.

Political Science (Moses sir): We were taught the basics of politics, the constitution of various other nations like China, USA , USSR , France etc. Economics (Moses sir) : We were taught the basics of economics here.

Next week - events in Std X.E in chronological order,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XXXVI

Hi all,

Nice to contact all of you once again. I expect to be back at home in Trivandrum, to reach there by the 11th Jan. So, if we have a get together after that, I too shall try to attend it. But, if the
convenience of most of us is before that, let that be so (just send the snaps & memories from there into the group).

Continuing with the memoirs of Std X.E,

History: Betty Balan teacher taught us the subject. We dealt with the history of medieval and modern India and the world. Indian history – We studied the Indian history since the English rule over India . It included different wars like French wars (1700s), Battle of Plassey (1757), Maratha wars (our SSLC essay) etc. The events like Sepoy Mutiny (1857), and the reforms of Governor- General or Viceroys like Robert Clive, Lord William Bentinck, Hastings, Canning, Warren Hastings etc are worth mentioning. After the first war, the other events like the formation of INC (1885), Montagu Chelmsford or Minto Morley reforms (1909), Chauri Chaura Incident, Jallianwala bagh massacre (1919), Non cooperation movement (1920), Dandi Yatra (1930), Quit India Movement (1942), Cripps Mission (1946) were important steps before our Independence in 1947. Post independence events like constitution formation, Republic, the five year plans, and the reforms of our Prime Ministers were taught.A brief mention of the history of Kerala was also taught. World history : First, we learned the world scenario before 1919; then learnt the first world war (causes, course, results) in 1914 – 1918. The League of Nations formation in 1919. Then, we learnt how the world was under Fascism, Nazism, the Wall Street Catastrophe etc. Then, we saw how the second world war occurred, the course and results (1949 – 1945) with the Hiroshima , Nagazaki incident. Then, we learnt the United Nations and how it was successful. We learned about the freedom struggles in many parts of the world like Israel, Indonesia , Syria , China , the cold war etc.

To continue in the coming sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Dr.Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XXXV

Hi all,

Nice to contact all of you once again. What happened to everyone in the last one week? Winter is for hibernation for animals, not for humans !!

Continuing with the sessions of Std X.E,

Biology : Jayalekshmi teacher taught the subject. She taught us homeostasis in the blood (with renal function), nervous system (with sensory organs like eye, ear & others), genetics (with Mendelian theories), the theory of evolution, ecology etc. We also had a health science text book, which taught us regarding antibiotics, blood groups, hepatic & renal diseases, and defects of
smoking & alcoholism. Remember that we drew diagram of brain in SSLC exam (4 mark question).

Physics : PJ Jacob sir taught the subject. He taught us basics of optics (like dispersion, diffraction, scattering),lightning, heat (like H= I2RT) etc, electricity & magnetism, principles of radioactivity, nuclear reactions and electronics (diodes, transistor, TV, radar etc).

Chemistry : Devadas sir taught the subject. He taught us the basics of exo/endothermic reactions, blocks of periodic table (s,p,d,f), electrochemical reactions, alkali metals (Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Fr), alkaline earth metals (Be, Mg, Ca, Ba, Ra), boron family (B, Al , Ga , In, Th), transition metals, organic chemistry (with alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, alcohols, acids, aldehydes & ketones), chemistry in industries etc.

To continue in the coming sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XXXIV

Hi to my dear batch,

Thanx Cherry, Kalyanaraman, Anil, Anup & Abhilash for the concern shown to me. Now I am in my full health. Best wishes to BOBY GEORGE on your marriage. May the Lord grant you a long married life. I will be back in Trivandrum only by mid January. So, let the get together happen, and those who attend, please post in the snaps. Mahesh, you have rightly pointed out the hazards of coronary artery disease. For everyone's information, changing food habits for good, doing exercise etc, reduces the risk of many other diseases as well like hypertension, diabetes mellites, obesity & their dreaded complications.

Continuing with my sessions on Std X.E,
Hindi : We had a main text book which included prose as well as poems. Also there was a supplementary reader with 7 stories like `Choti Jadugar' and others.

Mathematics : Stancy teacher taught the subject.She taught us equations related to Pascal's triangle like (a+b)3 = a3 + b3 + 3a2b + 3ab2. Also formulae for (a-b)3, a3-b3, a3 + b3 etc were taught. Figures like hollow cylinder, cone, pyramid etc were taught with calculations of their volume, TSA, slant height etc. The polynomial theorem, basis of trigonometry for calculations etc were taught. Quadratic equations ie, x = -b + (b2 – 4ac)1/2 /2a were taught. Besides, basics of statistics, computers were also taught.

To continue in the coming sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Dr. Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XXXIII

Hi all,

I was down with enteric fever for the past 12 days, was admitted and was on iv antibiotics. So, I was not able to post my messages nor keep in touch with all of you these days. Manu, nice to hear about you after a long gap. Congrats on being a father.

Continuing with our sessions in Std X.E,

Malayalam II paper: Apart from the composition, we had a supplementary reader "Dharmaraja". The book is mainly an extract from a novel written by Sri.CV Raman Pillai. The theme is that many of the subjects under Marthanda Varma tried to defeat him (like Hari panchanan) and it depicts how the efficient Kesavan Pillai was able to save the king and the kingdom from them. The characters include Kesava Pillai, Marthanda Varma, Kesavan Kunju, Mama Venkidan, Arathama pilla thankachy, Kalaprakkotte Thampy, Annavayyan, Meenakshy, Kuppan, Bhairavan, Ugra/Santha Haripanchananan, Tripura Sundari Kunjamma, Ananda padmanabhan, Umminipillai, Ali Hassan Kunju Pokku moosa Maraikkayar Noohukannu etc. Hope all of you do remember the curse given by Kesava Pilla to Arathamapilla Thankachy in the first chapter, `A adicha kai vazhatte. Innu ningal ente thalayil kulam thondi. Nale I tharavadu kulam kori pokam. Annu kanam shesham.'

To continue in the following sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XXXII

Hi to my dear batch,

Nice to see response in our group, and thanx to Anil, Nitin & Josey for the same. I have all my previous mails stored with me, but I can't take the initiative due to poor knowledge of computer
technology. I would be happy to see them (as well as those of others) well arranged as a website or blog, or any other suitable. I do express my sincere cooperation in this venture, if anyone of our computer technologists or engineers will take up the initiative for the same.

Continuing with the memoirs of Christ Nagar Std X.E,

Malayalam : It was taught by Lisamma teacher.

Ist paper: It was from the main text book. The chapters included Velayil VilayunnaVidyabhyasam (Gandhiji), CV yude manasaputri (CV Raman pillai), Oru katha janikkunnu (MT Vasudevan Nair), Bhoomiyude avakashikal (Vaikom Muhammed Basheer), Namukku oru nadakam kalikkam (Sankara pillai), Prometheus; and poems like Geetanjali (Tagore – Kunjappa), Leela (Asan), Bhoomikku oru charamageetham (ONV Kurup), Hamsavum Demayanthiyum, Shakunthala, Bharata sthreekal than bhavashuthi, Kshanaprabha chanchalam (Ezhuthachan) etc. My tongue and finger tips are flowing with the 10th std poems and I feel like reciting at least few which I remember, but I am controlling myself, as I do not want to bore you.

To continue with Std X.E Malay II paper in the coming sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XXXI

Hi all,

Nice to contact all of you once again. I am fine here by God's grace. Hope you all are doing fine.
Continuing with the memoirs of Std X.E,

English : It was taught by Mary Rose teacher (Sachin's mother).

I paper : It includes 16 chapter text book including Boyhood days (Booker Washington), Uphill, the Miser (Eric Blair), Daffodils (William Wordsworth), The fall of Bhishma , the lone dog, one Christmas morning, Montgomery and the Tom Cat, Hardy's discovery of Ramanujan, Wander Thirst (Gerald Gould) etc. We were also taught English grammar.

II paper: Apart from Composition, we were taught the Kerala supplementary reader`Indulekha'. This work was by Chandu Menon, which depicts the successful love story between Indulekha & Madhavan. Other characters were Panchu Menon (the Karnavar), Shinnon (brother), Lakshmikutty (her mother), Suri Nambuthiripad (who wanted to marry Indu), Kalyanikutty (the servant girl). She taught the subjects well, along with English grammar and composition.

To continue with the sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XXX

Hi all,

Nice to contact all of you once again. Thanx to Dinkar for your constructive criticism.

Starting off with Std 10 (in my batch of X.E),

Our class was situated in the first room on the right from the centre in the 1st floor. Remember the sound pollution we faced when each time Mr.Thankachan comes and rings the bell in front of our ears. Computer classes for our batch was in Saturdays. Our batchmates in Std X.E included Alex Punnen C, Anto Vin Jose, Arun Soman ,Biju K George, Binu VV, Chintu Philip, Deepak Joseph, Dinkar KV, Einstein Albert, George Alex, Gopikrishnan, Harish, Jimmy Joseph, Jose, Krishnakumar, Libin Thomas, Manoj EG, Manu Sheikh Fareed, Nibu Nicklavose, Nijil George, Nishant Abbas, Prakash Varkey, Praveen KS, Praveen RS, Ramanathan, Rejith TR, Reju Dinesh, Robin Alex Panicker, Rolland Chungath, Rupesh, Sabarinath C, Sajith Raj, Sangeeth Sebastian, Sanju Mathew, Scott J Williams, Sharat Gopal, Shibu GP, Shiju Majeed, Siddhardh Banerjee, Sujith GJS, Sunil Raj, Unnikrishnan, Yatheendranathan and others.

Class teacher : Remember Devadas sir, our class teacher who was also teaching Chemistry.

Moral Science : Remember the book which taught us aspects of each religion (Jainism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Zaurashtrianism & others) ; basics about sex & marriage (with stress on the basic physiology, sex education, and how to enable children to face sexual temptations in life so as to be able to tide over them). Most of our batchmates had read this book long before the classes!


To continue with Std 10 in the further sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XXIX

Hi to my dear batch,

Nice to contact all of you once again. By God's grace, I am fine here. Sad to see the decreasing no of mails, and the absolute pin drop silence from everybody.

Continuing with our batch sessions in IX.C,

Starting off 1992,
Jan 3 – Feast of Fr.Elias Chavara
Jan 16 – Trivandrum North Revenue Dist Youth Festival
Jan 24 – Last date of Youth festival
Jan 26 – Republic day

Feb 1 – Sugama Hindi exam
Feb 24 – School Anniversary

March – Final examinations
5 – Mal I, Mal II
6 – Eng I, Eng II
9 – Hindi, History
19 – Phy, Geo
20 – Che, Bio
23 – Maths I, Maths II
24 – WE, Moral
26 – Computer

April 20 – Results out

To continue with Std X.E (our last year in school) in the next sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XXVIII

Hi to my dear batch,

Nice to contact all of you once again. My condolences on the death of father of Martin Thomas.

Continuing with my sessions,

In class IX.C, (second term)
Sept 2 – School reopens
10 – Starday
Oct 2 –Gandhi Jayanthi
5 – Orientation class
11 to 13 – Science fair
17, 18 – Pooja holidays

Nov 1 – Monthly test – Eng, Moral, Geo
2 - Monthly - Phy, Mal, Maths, Hist
4,5,6 – Retreat for Catholic students (5th Diwali)
9 – Monthly – Hindi, Bio, Che, WE
12 – School Youth Festival
14 – International film festival & Children's day (Remember all of us being taken to the theatre by the school authorities and shown the film `The Counter man (I suppose)'. Nov last week and Dec first week – Whole Kerala was in disaster when LDF, medicos strike occurred, with lots of damages to the state, including death of Jayakrishnan. So, many of these days were holidays for us like Nov 22, 29, Dec 5,6,9,10.

Second terminal examination
Dec 11 – Hist, Maths
Dec 12 , 13- State School games festival (so holiday)
Dec 14 – Eng II
Dec 16 – Mal II, Bio
Dec 17 – Eng I, Hindi
Dec 18 – Mal I, Che
Dec 19 – Geo, Moral
Dec 20 – Phy, WE
X'mas fete
Dec 21 – Computer
School closes for Christmas vacation

Dec 30 – School reopens after vacation

To continue in the coming sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XXVII

Hi to my dear batch,

I am so happy to see the increasing number of nostalgic mails in our group esp in relation to the Science Fair. So nice to see and remember our good old memories. I also feel like sharing the memories (if any of you want to)in my further memoirs, with other events like Talents day, Xmas fete, Sports day, School day as well. Expecting your response,,.

On the other side of the coin, see the progress of our batch mails when a new topic comes through. On the first two days (17th and 18th) there were 6+6=12 mails,which is lesser than the no of mails henceforth put together.In other words, get rid of arambhasurathwam, and maintain madhyasurathwam as well as anthyasurathwam (if such words are there in vocabulary), and maintain our batch group thus.

Continuing with the batch memoirs in IX.C, list of events in the year:

In 1991,
Jun 20 – School reopens
Jun 22 – Narasimha Rao sworn in as Prime Minister.
Jun 24 – K Karunakaran sworn in as Chief Minister

July 3 – St.Thomas day
Jul 20 – Expiry of Maharaja
Jul 22 – Muharram
Jul 23 – I Monthly test – Eng, Maths, Bio, Hist, Che
Jul 27 – Monthly – Mal, Hindi, Geo, Phy
Jul 31 – Talents day

August –First Term Examination
13 – Eng I,Phy
14 – Mal I, Moral
15 – Independence day
16 – His, Bio
19 – Hindi, Maths
20 – Geo, WE
21 – Mal II, Che
22 – Onam celebrations in school, like Athappoovu.
23 to 1 – Onam vacation

To continue in the coming sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XXVI

Hi all,

Hope all of you are doing fine. I am doing fine by His grace. Here I am continuing with the sessions in Std IX.C,

History : It was taught by TT Antony sir. Basically, we were taught the Indian history of ancient and medieval age. We started with the Paleolithic ages, and how we developed the Indus Valley civilization. We learned the religions of Jainism & Buddhism that spurt out of India. Then, we started learning kingdoms one by one in chronological order from Mauryan Dynasty (Chandrgupta Maurya BC 300), Alexander the great, Satavahanas, Ashoka the great (Kalinga) and others. The Gupta Dyansty (AD 320) under Chandragupta Vikramaditya, Harshavardhana (AD 600), the Chalukyas (Pulakesin II who defeated Harsha in 640s). In South India , the Cheras (around AD 800), the Cholas (Raja Raja Chola & Rajendra Chola) and the Pandyas (around 1200) (Mahendravarman). Back to North India , the Delhi Sultanate under Sultana Raziya till Ibrahim Lodi (defeated by Babur); the Tughlaks, the Khiljis and so on. Mughals from Babur (1498- the first battle of Panipat) through Humayun (Sher Shah in between), Akbar the great (16th century), Jahangir, Shah Jahan, Aurangezeb (1710 -1761) (then small kingdoms till 1862).Sorry for being over descriptive and boring you; now I shall be concise.

Political Science : TT Antony sir He taught the basics of Political Science with definitions, the
constitution etc.

Geography : Leelamma Kurien teacher. She taught the basics of longitudes & latitudes (with
calculations), differences in landscapes, types of climates (tropical rain forests, tropical savanna, arid, ice cap) and others; currents of the Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic, Indian & Atlantic oceans; various stores in India & Kerala as ores & minerals; countries (Algeria, Iceland, Antarctica).

Economics : Taught by Leelamma teacher. The father was Adam Smith. She taught about the basics like production, consumption & distribution etc.

Work Experience : George Eapachen sir taught the subject.

To continue with the sessions as important events in the year (9th Std) in the next session,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XXV

Hi all,

I am glad to tell that this is the 25th session of the memoirs. Where are all of you hibernating through? This is not winter, eh?

Continuing with IX.C,

Physics : It was taught by PJ Jacob sir. He taught us principles of mechanics. It includes the equations of motion like v = u + at, S = ut + 1/2at2, v2 = u2 = 2aS. Three laws of motion were 1.Every body continues to be in its state of rest or in the state of uniform motion in a straight line, unless an unbalanced external force acts on it. 2. The rate of change of momentum of a body is inversely proportional to the force acting on it, and it takes place in the direction of it. 3.For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The definition of force was based on the law 2. The basis of frictional force (dyanamic & static), gravitational force, capillary action, surface tension, forces of cohesion & adhesion etc were all covered. Also basic principles of electricity including E=IR, principle of voltaic cell (essay for final exam) & other cells, principles of sound etc were covered.

Chemistry : It was taught by Devadas sir. He taught us the basics of physical chemistry like Avogadro's law (with the no 6.023 * 1023), basics of stoichiometry, Periodic table etc. Different types of bonding like ionic (electrostatic), covalent bonds, polar molecules like water etc were taught. Detailed explanations of halogens (F, Cl, Br, I, At), oxygen family (O, S, Se, Te, Po ), nitrogen family (N, P, As, Sb, Bi), carbon family (C, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb) were taught chapterwise.
Note : Thanx to the teaching of my teachers, I still feel difficult to forget the periodic table with the atomic numbers & locations (except the lanthanides and actinides (f block) of course).

To continue in the subsequent sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XXIV

Hi all,

Nice to see newcomers into the group. Welcome Bijoe into the group; hope you remain active permanently in the group. Nice to see your photos as well.

Continuing with my memoirs in Std IX.C,

Malayalam : Thomas Devasia sir taught the subject. Remember the chapters Mathrudevo bhava, poems by Cherusseri, Changampuzha (Kanaka chilanka kilungi kilungi) etc. Remember the II paper text `Urmila' which was mainly the life of Raman , Sita, Lakshmanan & Urmila , taken from the Ramayana.

Hindi : It was taught partially by Dr.Letha teacher, and by Harikrishnan sir. We had a main text book, and a supplementary reader

Biology : It was taught by Annie George teacher. She taught us the basis of binomial nomenclature into kingdom, phylum, subphylum, class, family, order, genus, species; also the
basis of cytology with the various parts of the cell; principles of diffusion, osmosis etc; systems of the human body esp the circulatory, respiratory in detail. Also remember the health science book which included descriptions ofthe various vitamins & other food factors required by the human body; diseases due to alcoholism & smoking (like thrombo angitis obliterans etc).

To continue in the subsequent sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XXIII

Hi everybody,

Nice to contact each of you. Thanx for the wishes. Why is there a slackening in the no of mails in the last week?

Starting with Std IX.C, remember our classroom in the corner of the 2nd floor. Remembering my batchmates in IX.C, it includes Renjith Sanu , Ramesh S, Seshasayee, Bharat, Subramaniam, Dinesh, Satish, Abhilash, Savio, Anoop Jacob, Manu Sheikh, Bittu, Jose Sachin, Anuroop , Murallikrishnan, Mohan Rajasekharan, Sajith Thampy, Gokul Hariram, Premanand, Kalyanaraman, Vidhukuttan, George Alex etc.

Mathematics : Thomas Joseph sir taught the subject in a very splendid manner. He taught the various aspects of trigonometry like sin,cos, tan, cosec, sec & cot ; areas & TSA of trapezium, parallelograms, rhombus & other figures ; solving of simultaneous linear equations; measures
of central tendency & dispersion etc.

Moral Science : Thomas Joseph sir taught the subject well.

English : It was taught by Rama Nair teacher. She taught us Guided English part V which consisted of parts of 30 novels. The poetry text was by Zecharias. The II paper text was two in number. One was the last part of `Stories & Myths from East & West',mainly stories from the Greek mythology .The other was the Kerala supplementary reader `The memoirs of Mahatma Gandhi' which was mainly the life history of Mahatma Gandhi.

To continue in the subsequent sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XXII

Hi to my dear batch,

Nice to contact all of you once again. Thanx for the best wishes from many of you including Anil, Aravind, Kalyanraman, Dinkar, Josey, Cherry, Sabari & others.

Regarding the get together, let it be according to the convenience of the majority. However, I would like to join it and would be able to do so , if you delay the occasion by one month or so (when I will be back in Trivandrum, and be there then on). But, let the majority decide.

Continuing with my sessions in Std VIII.A,

In 1991,
Jan 11 – Revenue Dist Youth Fest
Jan 17 – Star day
Gulf war starts
Feb 8 to 9 – School Sports day
Feb 22 – School Anniversary
Annual examination –
March 7- Eng II, Che
Mar 8 – Maths, Hist
Mar 11 – Mal I, Phy (SSLC exam from 13th to 20th)
Mar 21 – Eng I, WE
Mar 22 – Mall II, Geo
Mar 25 – Bio
Mar 27 – Hindi, Moral , Comp
Mar 28 – Comp
Closed for summer vacation
April 2- Leejoy GL expired (with whole family in a road traffic accident)
April 20 – Results
April 22 –Vacation classes begins (Maths – by Thomas Joseph sir)
May 21 – Rajiv Gandhi assassinated
May 30 – Vacation classes end
Jun 12 – Elections to the Lok Sabha & Kerala Legislative Assembly
Jun 19 – Summer vacation ends
This was the longest summer vacation in Christ Nagar.

To continue in the upcoming sessions, with IX.C,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XXI

Hi to my dear batch,

Nice to contact all of you once again. My marriage is expected to be held by around Feb or Mar next year. Hope all of you (including those far) will make arrangements early enough to be present on the occasion.

Continuing with the Std VIII.A sessions,

Sept 1- Computer
School closes for Onam vacation
Sept 1 to 9 – Vacation
Sept 11 – Sree Krishna jayanthi
Sept 21 – Sree Narayana guru jayanthi
Sept 22 - Beijing Asiad begins
Sept 27 – Star day
Sept 28, 29 - Pooja holidays
Oct 2 – Gandhi jayanthi
Oct 5 – Science Quiz competition in the college
Oct 12 to 14 – School Science Fair
Oct 17 – Deepawali
Oct 20 – Orientation day
Oct 23 – Sri LK Adwani arrested by PM (VP Singh)
Oct 24 – Bant
Nov 7 – PM VP Singh resigns
Nov 7,8, 9, 12, 16 – Monthly test
Nov 11 – Sri.Chandrasekhar sworn in as Prime Minister.
Nov 23- Dist Youth Festival
Second terminal examinations
Dec 13 – Maths, Che
Dec 14 – Hist, Phy
Dec 17 – Eng I, Bio
Dec 18 – Moral, Mal I
Dec 19 – Geo
Dec 20 – Mal II, Eng II
Dec 21 – Work Exp, Hindi
Dec 21 – X'mas fete
Dec 22 to 31 – Christmas vacation

To continue with 1991 in the coming sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XX

Hi all from my dear batch,

Nice to see the good response of many of you to the batch's 1200th mail (my previous mail). Here is the batch's memoir number 20, as part of the mail digest no 400. Continuing with the memoirs of Std VIII A,

History : (Late) Thankappan Pillai sir. He taught about the basic history of India before Independence, after Independence; All states & Union Territories of India; Kerala since
1956; the United Nations; the Roman & Chinese civilizations etc. Remember how he goes out of the subject to discuss current topics.

Geography : Joseph Sylvester sir. He taught the reasons to say why earth is spherical (oblate
spheroid), basics of longitudes & latitudes; basis of rocks, weathering, soils, Social Forestry etc; 4 important organisations (Scouts & Guides, Red Cross/Crescent, Bharat Sevak Samaj, Cooperative Movement), 2 developed countries (US & USSR), 2 developing countries
(Chile, Malaysia).

Remembering my classmates,including Cherry Jim, Renjith Sanu, Tibu, Subramony, Bittu B, Deepak, Majo George, Leejoy GL (late), Leejoy Mathew.

Computer Science : Thomas Mani sir was the first person to lead us in the knowledge of computers. He taught us how to make programmes in the BASIC language. Each line used to begin with numbers like 10, 20, 30, etc. (eg :- 10 LET X=1, 20 X=X+1, 30 IF X=10 GOTO 10 etc). Frankly speaking, I do not know to use any computer language other than what he had taught that time (but I do accept that it may be outdated). I look upto the computer engineers in our batch, who might be knowing how to deal with the finest details of computer (which I am illiterate). We had computer class every Thursdays in the evenings (others had on other days as well).

Considering the important events,

In 1990,
June 4 – Classes start
June 27 to 29 –Monthly test
July 3- Holiday (Bakrid, St Thomas day)
July 24 to 27- July monthly test
July 30 – Protest against the Gajraula incident.
Aug 1 – Talents day
1st terminal examination
Aug 23- Maths,Che
Aug 24 – Hist, Phy
Aug 27 – Mal I, Bio
Aug 28 – Eng I, Moral
Aug 29 – Geo, Work Exp
Aug 30 – Eng II, Mal II
Aug 31 – Hindi

To continue in the subsequent sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XIX

Hi to my dear batch,

Nice to see the good no of mails recently; but sad to find the decreasing no of mails intended personally, and to cherish the good old memoirs of Christ Nagar,and poor response to my mails.

Continuing with the sessions, in VIII.A,

Hindi : Remember Madhavan Nair sir taking class on the Hindi text book as well as the supplementary reader.

Mathematics : Thomas Joseph sir taught us the subject in a very superb manner. The basics of algebra like (a+b)2 = a2 + b2 + 2ab, (a-b)2 = a2 + b2 – 2ab , the basics of trigonometry etc were taught.

Moral Science : Mrs.Annie Ignatius

Work Experience : Mathew sir (with Dynam Electrikit).

Biology : Jeyaraj sir. He taught the theory of Evolution, abiotic & biotic factors, diseases
(leprosy, filariasis etc), all the 9 systems of human body etc.

Physics : George Mathew sir. Principles of heat & transmission as conduction, convection &
radiation; Basics of Optics like stereoscopic vision & principles of refraction with the laws of refraction; Contrivances that make life better; life history of 4 eminent scientists etc.

Chemistry : George Mathew sir. Basis of equations & balancing of equations, exothermic & endothermic reactions with examples etc.

To continue in the subsequent sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XVIII

Hi to my dear batch,

Nice to contact all of you once again. Continuing with our school memoirs,

Malayalam : Gangadharan sir was our teacher. He taught us sincerely, and I used to feel sorry for him when our batchmates make fun of him and call nicknames. He is a known diabetic, on insulin, used to come to Trivandrum Medical College to get injections regularly, and thus,
I could get acquainted of him later. Hope none can forget the vritham that he had taught.

Manjari: `Slathakakalivrithathil randam pathathilanthyamam
Randaksharam kurachidil athu manjariyayidum'

Keka : `Moonnum randum randum moonnum randum randennezhuthathil
Pathinnalinnezhaksharam patham randilumonnu pol
Guruvonnenkilum venam marathoro ganathilum
Nadukku yathi pathathi poruthemithu kekayam'

Kakali : `Mathrayanchaksharam moonnil varunnoru ganangale
Ettu cherthulleeradikku chollam kakali ennu per'
Vamshastham : `Jathangal vamshasthamatham jarangalum'
Shardulavikreeditham : `Panthrandal masajam sathamtha guruvum
shardulavikreeditham'

Other types of vritham like nathonnatha etc.

Quiz question for all of you – what is "ya ra tha bha ja sa ma na"?

Samasam : 4 types – avyayibhavan, thalpurushan, bahuvrihi, dhwandhwan.
Sandhi : adeshasandhi, lopasandhi, agamasandhi, dithwasandhi. (Hope Nitish Mathew remembers his bitter incident)

Remember the I paper text book with 25 chapters including, Nanathwavum ekathwavum, Venuganam (Cherusseri), Sree bhoovilasthira (Kumaranasan), Krishnanum Kuchelanum, Abhinava kalalayam, Pazhanchollukal (Pazhanchollil pathirilla), Indumathee swayamvaram,
AR Rajarajavarma (an essay which sir made the whole class to recite one day- against dwithiyakshara prasam) etc.

Remember the II paper text book `Uthishtatha jagratha', which is the life history of Swami Vivekananda. His childhood (Narendran), life, journeys to US (Chicago - 1893), and end have been depicted very well.

To continue in the coming sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XVII

Hi to my dear batch,

Nice to contact all of you once again. I am celebrating Onam from Punjab, and I am going to have Onasadya in a short time. Thank you, Sabari and others who wished me on my birthday.

Starting off with sessions from our high school classes. I was in Std VIII.A. Remember our class situated in the second floor first room on the right. Remember our class teacher Mrs.Annie Ignatius,who taught us English and Moral Sc as well. Remember how wonderfully she pronounces words.

English : Annie Ignatius teacher. Remember her teaching Guided English text book of 30 stories (parts of novels, of course). Also remember the poetry text by Zecharias. Remember the two supplementary text books. One was `Stories & Myths from east and West' which is mainly the Greek Mythology. The second was Kerala state syllabus one which contained short stories mainly.

Spoken English : I hope no body has forgotten the Spoken English
classes , and the phonetic script.
Vowels - ^, a:, I, I:, u, u:, e, ai, au, (others unable to be typed in
keyboard)
Consonants – b, d, f, g, h, d3, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, t3, v, w, j, n1, 0(others unable to be typed in keyboard) .

Remember the classifications like plosive, alveolar & others. `Tum ti ti tum ti ti tum ti' ( to pronounce with adequate stress). Getting nostalgic ??

To continue in the subsequent sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XVI

Hi to my dear batch,

WISH YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY ONAM.
HAPPY MARRIAGE WISHES TO KARTHIK.

To all bachelors including Dinkar and Anil, do not weep over bachelorhood. There are still a lot among us including me, who are still bachelors. You will get the right match, the right person in
the right time, in God's own time - just keep praying for it, as I am doing.

Continuing with the memoirs session, going through the important events in VII.D:

June 5 – Classes reopen
Monthly test in June & July – Dinu tops
July 31 – Talents day
September 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8 – First terminal exam
Sept 9 to 17 – Onam vacation (Onam on 12th)
Oct 9, 10 – Pooja vacation
Oct 20 to 22 - Science Fair
Nov 1st week – Monthly test
Dec 1 – Mr VP Singh becomes Prime Minister.
Dec13,14,15,19,20,21 – Second Terminal Examination (First and the
last time that I got first rank in Christ Nagar)
Dec 22 – Xmas fete
Dec 23 to 31 – Christmas vacation.

In 1990,
Jan 1- Class reopens (beginning of a decade)
Jan 15 – Star day
Jan 30, Feb 2 – Holiday due to SSLC Model exams
Feb 12 to 17 – Holiday due to National School games (Kerala state
first)
Feb 24 – School Anniversary (schoolday).
Mar 14 to 21- SSLC exam
USS Scholarship exam for our batch – March 16 (Addl English), 19 (English), 20 (Maths), 21 (General Knowledge)

Annual Examination – Mar 23 (Maths, Bio), 24 ( Mal I, Phy), 26 (Mal
II, Che), 27 (Eng I, Moral), 28 (Eng II, Social ), 30 (Hindi, Work
Exp).
April 21 – Results of exam.

To continue in the coming sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XV

Hi to my dear batch,

Hope all of you are fine. I am fine by God's grace.
Continuing with the memoirs session of Std VII.D,

Malayalam : Our teacher was Mrs.Geeta. The main text had around 30 chapters with prose & poems. The supplementary text book `Durgesa nandini' was a love story of
Thilothama & Jagath Simhan.

Hindi : Sukumaran Sir taught us the main text book , grammar and the
supplementary reader.

Biology : Jayalekshmi teacher taught the subject in a very superb manner. She taught the principles of reproduction, small organisms (protozoans), worm infections.

Physics : Joy sir taught the subject in his own style. He taught the principles of force, pressure, principles of stability, electrical gadgets like tape recorder, telephone, telegram, television, diesel
engines; principles of optics incl the laws of reflection etc.

Chemistry : Only 3 chapters. He taught us basics of chemical nomenclature like symbols, formulae, chemical equations and the periodic table.

Social Sciences : Arundathi Sinha teacher. She taught the ancient civilizations in India (Harappa, Mohen jo daro), Greek civilization, religion (Hinduism), 2 developed countries (UK & Denmark), 2 developing countries (Nepal), geographical features like cyclone, Tornado, mechanism of climates, division to latitudes & longitudes etc.

To continue in the coming sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XIV

Hi dear all,

Nice to see the increasing mails, and to see Sabari's pictures,
and the urge to search for the missed ones among us.

Here I am presenting to you another song that we used to listen on
morning 9:30, apart from the other 2 already given.

Make me a channel of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me bring your love,
Where there is injury , your pardon Lord,
And where there's doubt true faith in you.

O, master grand that I may never seek,
So much to be consoled as to console,
To be understood, as to understand,
To be loved , as to love with all my soul.

Make me a channel of Your peace,
Where there's despair in life, let me bring hope,
Where there is darkness, Lord your shining light,
And where there's sadness, ever joy.

Make me a channel of your peace,
It isn't pardoning that we are pardoned,
In giving to all men that we receive,
And in dying that we're born to eternal life.

To continue with std VII.D in the coming sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XIII

Hi all,

Nice to contact all of you once again.

Nitin,the number attached to my memoirs session is only the volume of the session no, and does
not denote the class. Hope you remember me when we were together in VI.D. Another correction - Our school started classes below 5th, classes above 10th, and introduction of girls not immediately after our batch, rather more than one year later.

Today, we are remembering our 7th std (I was in Std VII.D). Our VII.D class was in the ground floor right extreme (for some days) and 2nd floor (some days). Our class teacher was Thomas Joseph sir. Our classmates included Sabarisree, Dinu MB, Vinay Shenoy, Sreekanth, Deepu G, Sajith Jacob, Thomas, Sajith Raj,. Achutan, Brijesh PR, Siddhardh Banerjee, Rajaraja Varma, Ajith R, Nijil George, Arnold Raj, Alex Punnen, Renjit Shanker, Sunil R, George M
Alex, Joe George, Martin Thomas, Paramesh C, Viswath Raj, Jimmy Joseph, Sibi MD, Sebastian Jose, Shanoj Hussain, Renju, Basant D, Binu Viswam, David John, Aby Philip, Vidhukutan, Krishnakumar , Rolland Chungath etc.

Mathematics : Mr.Thomas Joseph. He taught the principles in a superb manner.
Moral Science : Thomas Joseph sir
English : Mrs.Annie Ignatius teacher. She taught in her own way of
teaching.
Paper I Guided English- It had 30 chapters , all parts of novels,
including Helen of Troy, the Great Plague of London, Fr.Damien and
lepers, and others. Poetry text of Mr.Zecharias included `A red red
rose' and others.
Paper II had 3 books. One was the adventurous story of the family of
Mr.Primrose. Another was `Stories and Myths from East & West' by
Mr.Zecharias P Thundy, which was mainly the Greek mythology. Another
was the supplementary reader by the Kerala state syllabus, a
collection of 10 stories.

To continue in the subsequent sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XII

Hi to my dear batch,

Nice to contact all of you once again. In view of the interest shown by many of you like Renju, I am reciting the song 'Lead Kindly light' before you.

Lead kindly light, amid the encircling gloom,
Lead, Thou me on
The night is dark, and I am far from home,
Lead, Thou me on
Keep thou my feet, I do not ask to see
The distant scene, one step enough for me.

So long Thy power, has blessed me sure it's still,
Will lead me on.
O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrents till,
The night is gone.
And with the morn those, angels faces smile,
Which I have won, long since and lost awhile.

Thanx for now. I shall respond to Rejith in the next session. To
continue in the continuing sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar XI

Hi all,

Deepu, thanx for interpreting what I meant correctly. In Std 6,
you were in E division. Riaz, nice for sending additions to the list
of classmates, some of which are not there in our list like Cecil
Yesudas (Ashams, please add).

In this session, for a change, let us remember our school song. It
used to be sung many days through the mike at 9:30 am(after the
morning prayer).

Blessed art thou, dear, Christ Nagar,
That bears the Lord, our Master's name,
Around thy flag let Angels fly,
And fill our hearts with virtues lore.

Beneath Thy noble roof we meet,
And gather fruits of wisdom pure,
We like a band of brothers' move,
In faith, in hope, in charity.

May life eternal surge in us,
And lead us fast in love of God,
Show us the way in darkness sure,
O, lead us in grace to truth Divine.

And here we make a solemn pledge,
Forever thy worthy sons to be.

In the next session, to start with Std 7,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar X

Hi to my dear batchmates,

Nice to contact all of you once again. Some corrections -
To Anil, the teacher was Annie Eapachen (not Eapen).
To Ashams, Gangadharan sir has not taught us in 6th or 7th std.
Also,Russian classes were in Std 6th only (not 7th).

So, shall we go through important events in our batch in 6D?

In 1988,
June 1 – classes start
Monthly test in last weeks of June & July – 1st rank Boban.
July 14 – visit to Aruvikkara dam, S & T Museum (vide supra)
August 1 – Talents day. Remember Kishore Natarajan as student
Principal.
Aug 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 19 - 1st terminal exam
Aug 20 to 31 – Onam vacation
Sept 1 – Class reopens
Oct 7 to 9 -Science Fair (Remember the working models, Still models,
charts, collections, Experiments & Improvisations, Music, English,
Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil stalls, and the health talk in the nights by ?
Mr.Ananda Bose IAS)
Oct end– Monthly test
Dec 15, 16,19, 20, 21, 23 – Second terminal exam
Dec 23 – Xmas fete
Dec 24 to Jan 1 – Christmas vacation.

In 1989,
Jan 2 – School reopens
No monthly test or other event other than Youth Festival
March 8, 9, 10, 13, 28, 30 – Final examination (SSLC in between from
15 to 22)
Mar 30 – Closed for summer vacation.

To continue in subsequent sessions,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar IX

Hi to my dear batch,

Thanx to Anil and Gopikrishna for replying to my mails.

There was an awakening for one week amongst our batchmates, once I
sent an incomplete list of batchmates. Now,around 15 to 20 are left
to be found out. Are you all in search for them or is the spirit
lost?

I am continuing with the memoirs in our Std VI.D. Here are certain
events that happened to our batch this year. I hope Arun Soman might remember him getting caught by Pattarkalam father thinking that he was me (during our classroom sweeping
session, which used to occur everyday morning by turn). I hope at least some of you may remember our visit to Aruvikkara dam, Science & Technology Museum etc on July 14th. Also, remember the excursion by some to various places of North Kerala (I didn't go). Remember, once we were taken to Kalabhavan theatre by the school authorities during the International Film festival and shown a movie. Remember our changing seats everyday by rotation from front seat to back seat.

I cherish the memories of the friendship I had with Rakesh G &
Sharat Gopal in 6th std. Hope they too remember me. It was during the 6th std that the morning song (after the prayer at 9:30), some songs were added extra like "Sare jaham se acha", " Therihe samey" which are there in our tongue tips still. I remember Boban drawing beautiful pictures from the textbooks. I also remember him filling answer papers at tremendous speed in Social Studies exams. Hats off to you !!

So, shall we go through important events in our batch in 6D? Wait for
the next session.

Yours sincerely,
Dr.Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar VIII

Hi to my dear batchmates,

This is the 1001st mail of our batch. I congratulate all of you who
have sent all the past 1000 mails.

Thank you Thomas Mani sir in spending time to send mails to our
group.I still remember you taking Computer Classes for me, details of
which I shall post in subsequent mails in High School Sessions.

BEST WISHES to RAKESH RANJIT on the occasion of your marriage. May
the Lord bless you a prosperous married life.

Welcome to Gopikrishnan who has joined the group. Hope you remember
me.

Continuing with the rest of sessions in Std VI.D,
Biology : It was taught by Mrs.Annie George (wife of George Mathew
sir). She taught us classification of plants & animals, three
infections (Polio, Tetanus, Diphtheria, Pertussis), setup of a
hospital and others. Her method of teaching was superb.

Physics : VK Joy sir taught the subject. He used to combine his own
ideas, and use to sing in the classes. He taught the mechanism of
sound, airplanes, 4 eminent personalities like Salim Ali, Paintal,
Khurana and others.

Chemistry : Mr.A Suresh was our teacher. This was the easiest
subject, as only three chapters were there. But still remember sir
bringing answer papers in front of us in the class, and valuing them
before us. It included homogenous & heterogeneous mixtures, basics of
nature in chemistry etc.

Social Sciences : Mrs.Betty Balan was our teacher. She taught about
the basic cultural heritage of our country, 2 religions (Christianity
& Islam), 2 developed countries (France & Australia), 2 developing
countries (Zimbabwe & Bengladesh), significant landscapes like plain,
plateau, mountain, rocks etc, important world events like the Magna
Carta (1215), French revolution (1789), Russian revolution etc.

Music : Paramanandan sir
To continue in next session,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar VII

Hi all of you,

Nice to contact all of you once again.
Dinkar, please include me and invite me for Orkut community.
Continuing with my (our) memoirs session in Std VI.D,,

Malayalam class : Mrs. Annamma was our teacher.
We had no textbook for the first two moths. So, she was teaching
various aspects of grammar this time, like vibhakthi, types &
classification of namam, sarvanamam, kriya & other parts of speech in
detail.
Can you still forget the figures of speech (alankaram) taught?
Upama : `Onninonnodu sadirsyam chonnal upamayamathu'- lakshanam, with
the standard example, `Mannavendra vilangunnu chandraneppole nin
mugham'
Ulpreksha : `Mattonnin dharmayogathal athu thanallayoyithu
Ennu varnyathilashanka ulprekshayakhyayalankrithi', with the standard
example, `Kokasthree virahatheeyin pukayallo thamassithu'.
Roopakam : `Avarnyathodu varnyathinnabetham cholga roopakam'
Aprasthuthaprashamsa : `Aprasthuthaprashamsakhya
maprasthuthamurakkathal'
Within two months , we started classes on the new first paper text.
Remember the poems `Moham' of ONV which is still famous, those of
Irammian Thampy, Cherusseri, Asan etc. Also, remember the African
diary of SK Pottekad, stamp collection and others.
Remember the II paper text book we got after 3 months in the
class, `Bharatiyaraya pancha maha pratibhakal' where we learned the
life history of 5 eminent Indian personalities like JC Bose, CV Raman
and others.

Hindi class : Mr.MA Varghese was our teacher. He taught both the main
text book as well as the supplementary `Katha manjari'

Work Experience : Mr.Mathew was our teacher. All of us must be
remembering him helping us do experiments with magnetism and
electricity with his favourite `Dynam Electrikit'. The striking
feature in exams is that, if you know to draw each apparatus in the
exam, you pass the exam without knowing anything else.

To continue with Biology in the continuing sessionns,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar VI

Hi to all my dear batchmates,

Here I am, continuing the sessions on our memoirs of Christ
Nagar.Starting of with our 6th std (Std VI.D was mine),

This class was situated in the ground floor left extreme.
The classmates included Boban R, Manoj EG, Jeril John, Nithin
Anand , Nishant MJ, Nishant Abbas, Rakesh G, Godly George, Sharat
Gopal , Shanavas, Sabarisree, Surej R Nath, Abilash Stanley, Jaideep
Nair, Korula, George Scaria, Ashok Kumar, Anoop VT, Sujith GJS, Surej
MR, Sunil Sreedhar, Asim, Praveen Velappan, Martin Thomas, Maneesh
KN, Giridas, Mohamed Asif, Harish Kumar, Ayswar, Amrit K, Biju
George, Ginto KJ, Mahesh, Pramod , Babu, Praveen KS, Arun Soman,
Yatheendranathan, Dilip Wilson and others, a total of 57. Hope the
above listed and others can remember our class.
Our class teacher was Mrs.Annie Mathew ( wife of Mathew sir of WE).
She was a soft spoken lady, and also taught us Mathematics and Moral
Science.
Our batch toppers were Boban R and Praveen Velappan.
Mathematics class : Mrs.Annie Mathew taught us basics of Maths like
HCF, LCM, basics in algebra, and geometry as how to draw various
figures etc. I hope all remember Shanavas to be scoring almost full
marks in Maths in most of the exams.
Moral Science : Our class teacher herself has taught us most of the
sessions in Moral Science. We used to study the summary of each
chapter and `test your memory' section in each chapter than anything
else.

English class : Remember our English I paper ` Guided English' text
book with 30 chapters taken from renowned novels. At least some of us
will be remembering Nicholas Nickleby, and others.
Remember the poetry text book of Mr.Zecharias P Thundy in which we
learned poems like `Macavity, the mystery cat' and others.
English II paper was `Coral Island', an adventure story divided into
various chapters.

To continue with Malayalam in the subsequent sessions.
Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar V

Hi to my dear batch,
I am back in Ludhiana.
Before going into day by day activities of 5D, I shall try to
recollect some of the faces in 5D with me. It includes 59 students
including Aravind, Vinay Shenoy, Binu VV, Boban R, Chandramohan,
Chintu Philip, Sreeram, Surej S, Sooraj Krishnan, Asif Hussain, Manoj
EG, Manoj N, Manoj M, Manoj MS, Jeril John, Robin Alex Panicker,
Deepu Gopinath, Sajimohan, Sibi P John, Sunil Sreedhar, Anand,
Sabarisree, Sabu Anzar, George M Alex, Ginto KJ, Rakesh Raghudharan,
Sujith John, Dinkar KV, Sanju Mathew etc etc.
In 1987,
June was our first month in Christ Nagar. At the end of the month,
we had a monthly test in which Boban R got first rank.
July,second month, again Boban came first in exam.
August- We became more busy studying.
Ist terminal exam on Aug 25, 27, 28
The strike began on the 31st when our teachers started raising
slogans and prevented us from writing the exams. Remember the
incidents of lathicharge,and that of pouring ink over Fr.Berthold's
loha (?fact,?rumor). First term exam suspended....
Sept 5- Onam
Sept 24 (Thu)- Classes restart
Oct 14 - 21 - Strike again (restart on 22nd)
Dec 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 - Second Terminal Examinations]
Dec 15 to Jan 3 - Christmas vacations. Also,National games in TVM.

1988,
Jan 4 - classes reopen
March 9, 10, 24, 25, 29 - Final examinations (SSLC exam in between
in 16 - 23)
End of 5th std

Next session, 6D (my sixth standard class)

Hi dear, I am in fact frustrated to see the poor response of
everybody. If nobody is interested, I am thinking of even stopping
these sessions (if I do not get reply to this mail by somebody, I
presume that no body is interested and decide to stop the sessions).
Moderator, if you want the list of all the members of our batch to
detect the missing links, I shall try to collect as much as possible
(say 220 or 230) if you want to. I shall try to give this in 10th std
batches as XA, XB, XC, XD, XE .Ask me if you want to.
Welcome to the newcomers like Riaz and others. Hope you still
remember me.
Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar III

Hi to my batch,
Nice contacting all of you. I am planning for a short visit to
Trivandrum, to reach on the 4th and go back by the 6th July.Hope to
meet some of you that time.
Good to see good old memories of Christ Nagar pouring out.
Continuing with my stuff in Class 5D,

Hindi : Natarajan sir was taking class first. I hope all of you
remember him, repeating words to remind all of us. Aana= varika, jana
= pokuka, khana = thinnuka, lana = konduvarika, and the alphabets,
were all the basics that he had given me and all of us, which I can
cherish in this land (North India), where I have to converse in Hindi.
Sukumaran sir joined later after the strike, and I always had a
liking for him. A poor sir, who was mocked by the students, just
because of his over sincerity.
Remember the Hindi padamala with 22 chapters, ending in the
song 'chanda ooncha rahe hamara'. Remember the supplementary text
book 'katha manjari' with stories in it like ekta mem bal he, kaue ki
hoshiari, patbrisht memna etc.

Mathematics : Remember KP Suresh Kumar sir teaching the basics of
Mathematics in his exemplerory style.

Moral Science : Remember the 5th class every Friday KP Suresh Kumar
Sir taking Moral Science classes. We use to learn mainly the 'Test
your Memory' Questions for each exam.

Basic Science : Aravindakshan sir
To continue in the coming sessions.Expecting additions from all of
you,

Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

Memoirs of Christ Nagar - II

Hello all,
Nice to know that many of you are interested to go back by 19 years
and refresh your memories.
Vinay, it is not that the rest of the classes can't be remembered of
(expect later,ie, after 5th std). But,it is that I do not know much
about the 5A,B,C,E batches (Sorry to those in non 5D batches)
Hope it would be nice to think of some of the teachers and what they
taught in 5D, before going on to the events. In the last session, I
missed out to mention Mr.CS Paramanandan Sir (Music).


Madhu Sir : He taught English for us.
Guided English - Remember the first chapter on the tracherous man
and Ram. He taught us parts of various famous writings like the
Counte of Monte Christo, the story of the great fire in the forest,
and many others.
Remember how he taught English grammer, and give exercises for
us.Also, the English composition book, Cursive writing book.
Remember the second paper book,'Robinson Crusoe'. This was the
adventurous story of a person who went throughout the world in boats
and canoes, caught up by pirates, escaped ultimately and ends in
rapture.

Harindran Nair Sir : He taught Malayalam for us.
Malayalam I text book - Remember the first chapter (Keralam). How
he sang in the class the first poem (tr to remember that sweet tune).
Parinu paribusha charthidum,
Bharatathinde chitrakam,
Keralam vilangunnu komalam,
Keravrikshaka sangulam ....
This rings in my heart when I am away from Kerala.
There were 25 chapters of which around 15 - 20 were taught. Also
remember worthwhile chapters like Kuyilum Minnaminungum (4th),
Kolumbante Nattil (17), Kaliyamardhanam (25), Thazhmathanabhyunnathi
(6), Asian Games (5), Thiruvathazham (14), Akshayapatram (19) etc
Remember the II paper text with 10 chapters (Dasapushpangal).The
story of the rakshasan, Kabuliwallah, Abhimanyu, Balikeramala and so
on.
None would have forgotten the day when sir took class on
Dooradarshan (15) with all students in the class standing (due to
making noise), and writing notes standing.
I also can't forget him pinching in the arms, and the erythema (for
next one day) and healing following that taking around 3 days.

Sukumaran Sir:
Feel nostalgic !!! or getting bored ????
Others please make your additions to this.
Shall continue in next session.
Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh

1987 - How it all started

Hello,
I think it would be a nice attempt to remember our activities in
Christ Nagar School in chronological order. I think I shall start off
from 1987 (when we joined the school).
But, please pardon me if any mistake occurs, as it is purely based
on memory. Any correction is welcome. All of you may store these
information one after the other (like a novel) that by the end, we
shall be able to remember our good old days, and make a diary of that.

Starting off, in 1987

April 4th Sat(or 6th Mon) - We wrote the Christ Nagar entrance
examination.
9th Thu - Results declared - We are selected
11th Sat - Interview for entering into CNEHS
May last week - We get prepared by buying books etc
June 1 Mon - Our first day in Christ Nagar. I join 5D class
in the ground floor (third room from the left)with KP Suresh Kumar
sir as the class teachers. Other batches were A, B, C and E formed
few days later. Other teachers were
English - Mr.Madhu
Malayalam - Mr.Harindran Nair
Hindi- Mr.Sukumaran
Mathematics - Mr.KP Suresh Kumar
Basic Sciences - Mr.Aravindakshan Nair
Social Sciences - Mr.Vinod
Work Experience - Mr.Mathew
Moral Science - Mr.KP Suresh Kumar
Sorry,I do not remember much about other batches.
The first day was half day, and we went back home enjoying.
June 2 - The second day of CNEHS. We started going on to the classes.

To continue in subsequent sessions.
Give your suggestions regarding continuation.If you feel boring, I
do not want to continue. Or else, I shall continue in my next mail.
Yours sincerely,
Sundar Singh