Naughty boys of past batches reunite to relive joys, pranks | Lucknow News
Lucknow: As Annual Week of Colvin Taluqdars’ College concluded with Darbar Day on Tuesday, the campus warmed up with of nostalgia with alumni reliving student days, their memories of classrooms, corridors and open fields returning with striking clarity.From batch of 1976, Rajesh Narayan Sehgal said, “During agriculture classes, learning often took a back seat as radishes and carrots quietly disappeared, to be enjoyed at the end of the day like a secret conquest.”His old classmate Ashok Kumar Dhall explained, “The open fields were our playground. A simple whistle or hand signal meant the teacher was away and that was our cue to pluck radishes or carrots.”Batch of 1978 member Ashok Bhatia said, “Intervals were eagerly awaited, when we would throwing stones to pick laal imli (red tamarinds) from trees on the campus.”Remembering classroom pranks, Sanjay Agrawal from batch of 1976 said, “Switching books and slipping them into the wrong bags was a carefully planned prank that entailed fun of watching classmates search for their notebooks in confusion.”Sharing hostel memories, Ravindra Bhargav, from class of 1976 said, “Tiffin boxes of day scholars would go missing, but the rule was simple, everything had to be shared, and no one was ever left out.”1976 student Ajay Gattani said, “Stolen tiffins created instant bonding as even the owner would soon forgive and sit with us, laughing and sharing a bite.”Rajneesh Lamba of 1978 batch said, “Rooms were marked for different classes and one day we once locked one classroom and quietly watched teachers and students wandering dazed for where the class would be conducted. We were just lucky not to get caught.”1980 batch student Ravi Kapoor said, “We would hide classmates’ shoes or school bags and return them later, turning small pranks into moments of shared laughter. Darbar Day brings back a time when happiness was simple and friendships were everything.”Union minister of environment, forest & climate change and MoS for external affairs, Kirti Vardhan Singh, who is president of British Indian Association (the governing body of Colvin College), said, “We are committed to taking the institution to greater heights by strengthening sports facilities, promoting skill development and introducing future-oriented courses such as AI, computers, fashion designing and hotel management, to create wider platforms for students to excel at state, national and international levels.“
