MY TEACHER--- RESPECTFUL REMEMBRANCE
The owner of the house/s was entering one by one to collect the rent. There were in all fifteen houses inside that compound of which 13 could pay rent immediately, one with some delay and the other with great delay. As the delay grew from ‘some’ to ‘great’ the language and respect with which the owner spoke deteriorated. It also used to get singular in address and would confirm the disrespect with unparliamentarily bad words. The episode sometimes used to end in sad note with the owner taking away a huge vessel as collateral for the rent. The whole population of the fifteen houses would watch this drama and the affected man and his family would hang their heads in shame. The affected man was otherwise holding a very respectable position in the society, a teacher in the middle school. Krishnamurthy vadyar KM for short, was a teacher almost sixty years ago and was my teacher when he was about fifty years. He was my teacher for mathematics, science, social studies, Tami...