Teachers of my life….

                 Life is a beautiful journey where we meet many people from different strata of society. In this journey we learn so many things from so many people knowingly or unknowingly that we sometimes forget to recognize. We remember the teacher who taught us stories of brave people in school but we forget the riddles told by our grandparents. We remember the sports teacher but we forget the elder brother-like friends of our locality who taught us the rules & motivated us to win so many games. We remember our mathematics teacher but what about all those calculations we did while buying small stuffs for our house hold purpose from the local grocery shop? We learnt team building, leadership, management, calculating risk factor, equality & fraternity and what not, in our gully cricket match but still we give recognition to our faculties who taught us these in much tougher & complicated way during our higher education. I learnt more from my friends than from my teachers during my school days. We did group study & helped each other to understand any concepts, theories or anything. I travelled to many parts of this country with very limited money with my friends. There I managed well and enjoyed exploring more with lesser money, still I remember my college exposure visits more and appreciate the same.

        Do you know how an unknown thing can be made a product of choice in few minutes? I remember the vendors of local trains of Kolkata & Mumbai who taught me this and probably much more about marketing & advertisement of any product. I remember the numerous TV ads & movies which inspired me to do so many things, take risk & become what I am today in my life.

Today I salute all those great teachers of my life who taught me how to live my life happily.

-         Tapas Sutradhar

                                                                                                      Almora