Childhood

And Those Were the Days

Leave a Comment / Childhood, Rail / By Samit Roychoudhury

I went to school in Ajmer, staying at a hostel from 1979 to 1988. The very large school campus was bordered on two sides by railway tracks. Now these were glory days for metre gauge. Ajmer was situated halfway on the important Delhi – Ahmedabad section. I recall our cross country run route would cross […]

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Typecaste

Leave a Comment / Childhood, Humour / By Samit Roychoudhury

I recall, what probably was my introduction to the caste system. I was in class six or so, an eleven year old in a hostel at Mayo College, Ajmer, way back in 1980. My older cousin, who was then with Philips, had visited Ajmer and dropped in to pay the customary visit to such ‘incarcerated’

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