I have never done this before. This is my first time. I have always wished them but never thanked them. I mean, that's what we generally do. We wish our teachers on a special day but always forget to thank them for what they had made of us. Of course, God must have thought only parents won't be enough to tame brats like us, so he made teachers. Our teachers occupy a lot of our space and time in our lives, not to mention the effect they have on us. That's been the case with ME at least(I would be fascinated by the ones I liked, and petrified by the rests). Some of our teachers go on to become great friends of ours, while others remain in the nightmarish dark corners.
I'd be lying if I say all my teachers have been good, but teachers, in general, are a hell lot good. To share with us what they have learnt all their lives, is a great thing to do. I mean, I have taught a few kids... and i totally know how difficult and irritating it can get at times. Well, I am definitely no teacher material...so i gave up way too early. But thank you for being so patient and bearing with all my classmates (I, of course, was such an angel of a kid and no pain in the bum...I'm sure <chuckle>). So today, I want to thank all my teachers for their always wanting me to do well, irrespective of my loyalty towards them. And a special thanks to those who made going school enjoyable.
Swati Aunty, "thank you" is an understatement for you. You were soooo good and you still are. Thank You for being so welcoming on the other end of the phone, even today. You are one of those few people in my life, whom I share everything with. Today 'friendship day' seems a more appropriate day to wish you. Thanks for being so good.
Gopa Aunty, I should have thanked YOU first actually. You are the sole reason for my studying in Modern School. Only I know what all rubbish I must've written in the admission test if You had not told me the answers. I know, it isn't possible for you to remember me, but this thanksgiving is necessary.
Dalia Aunty, at one point of time you made me hate myself for being tall. Everytime I'd get a chance to sit in the first bench, you'd change the seating arrangements and send towards the back benches again. I soooo hate you for this. But, seriously, no one taught science the way you did.
Panchali Aunty, you are the kind of a teacher I would like to be. You are the friendliest teacher i have ever had. The association with you has been brief, but extremely diabetic.
Thanks to you Anjuman Aunty, i know how important the spelling of my name is. my parents named me ELISHA, I turned it to ALISHA, and now I am back to ELISHA, again ( thanks to all my certificates). What was really surprising, yet overwhelming, is the fact that you still remember me. That really feels special!
And...ugh, well...ahem, Moumita Aunty, well I don't even need to call you aunty (you had taken our class only for a single day!), but what i need to do is thank you. Well, I'm too shy to thank you on your face...so the best place to thank you is here, because you are not going to read it...so there's no question of you khao-ing any footage! But jokes apart, there are things other that studies that we learn from certain people, and you one such "certain people". Thank you for being such a lovely sister-in-law to me and thanks for giving me my one and only fan and follower, Papa. 
Kajal ma'am, you are by far the best when it comes to English grammar. And I think, I'm second to you (shy). I say this to everyone. I never consciously liked English, but always managed a pretty good score, thanks to you. Thank you for teaching me such flawless English.If this blog has been written in grammatically correct English then it's all because of you...and if it's not so grammatically correct, then I am out of practice . Thank you, nonetheless.
. Thank you, nonetheless.
Thank you Rekha ma'am for making me start liking Bengali. Before you, my Bengali was only related to 'Atreyee Aunty' and 'one slap a day'. But you actually made Bengali fun. And you won't believe, I scored the highest in Bengali among all the students while i was in AG.
If there's one person I so hate, it's you Anindita ma'am. I will never forget how you made fun of me in front of the entire class, because i liked Rani Mukherjee. What WAS so funny, by the way! Don't YOU have any favourite actor or actress??? You scared me away from Physics, by the way! (I'll never be able to teach Physic to my kids, I'm sooo petrified!)
Mahua ma'am, you're the meanest I have ever come across. I mean, where do you hide those numbers!!! It surely doesn't hurt to give away a few marks to the poor kids. If Calcutta University is bad, you are worse. CU at least lets us pass. You made Julius Caesar hell for me. Thank God, you got married and Anjana ma'am came to our rescue. But I hear, you are back to trouble the kids again.
Chitrali ma'am, you love me, i love you too; you hate me, God bless you! I know you hate me, and I want you to know that there's a similar feeling for you in my heart as well. What did you have against me and my leather bag? I think, I am the only kid on earth who got a good piece of scolding for carrying my books in a leather bag. What the hell!
Ma'am Shekhar, ma'am RC, ma'am Ahmed, ma'am Devadas, ma'am Antony, sir Gommes.....you people have just totally transformed me. Nobody on earth teachers geography so well as you do. I didn't even have open my textbook during ISC. I even thought of doing geography honours after school. Ma'am Roychoudhury, I still miss your history classes and you shouting at us. Sir Ronny Gommes, I guess your Business Studies classes were only meant for the commerce people, 'coz we humanities guys would just pass our time talking away. yet you gave us grace marks. Assembly of God Church School is a turning point in my life. If I ever studied seriously, it was these 2 years in AG. I actually expected to get above 90% in all the subjects. Thank you teachers for being so cool. I wish life had stopped at classes 11 and 12 for the rest of my life. The AG-experience has been so dynamic, that even today I live in my school days. I am out of college, but I still want to go back to school. If I had a chance, I would rewind my life to the 'AG fun times' and keep in playing it.
.....and last but definitely not the least...AGD sir.....thank you soooo very much. I couldn't have cope up with English honours if there wasn't you. I sometimes regret being out of college now...because i miss the happy hours at your place. I miss copying the vast notes with Piyali and Utsab. Thank you for being a third parent to me.
Today, that I know your real worth, I don't need a September 5 to wish you well. Your contribution to my person has been so big and so important that any day is a good day to thank you and wish you. Each day spent under your guidance, is a lesson learnt.
THANKING YOU, a bit too late...
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Thanks for reminding us of all such teachers who have made such a positive impression in our lives. The same goes for me. Starting from KG to my final years in University, teachers and professors that have made us appreciate the finer points of life are only but a handful. There has been several goo...
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