Learn-Develop-Grow

  The Indian Express Front Page Every year since 1984, when the date October 31 comes around, I feel I should pen down my thoughts on that fateful day which tested my abilities as a young teacher.  And every year, I let it pass as though it never happened to anyone but me. But this year, a former student of mine, Shivaji Dasgupta, wrote a piece in the online magazine at  https://www.newsdrum.in/opinion/the-day-nehrus-daughter-died . I wrote back to him telling him about how I felt and he insisted I write.  So here it is.   I put it into this blog - Learn Develop Grow - because I think it formed a bit of all three on that fateful day. Just another Day Another October day in my sixth year of teaching at St Xavier's began as usual.  I am sure through the fuzziness of memories long gone, there must have been the usual classroom tricks and tantrums, the occasional unit test and a few jokes as only schoolboys know how.  Towards the afternoon there was this rumour floating around that the