My School days

It is nearly two years,I retired from State Bank of India.Just at 20,I was enrolled into SBI's service and nearly after a long span of 40 years,the D day came and it was 30th April,2010 when I retired from service.During my stint as a student of Nawab Bahadur's Institution at Lalbagh and also at Krishnath College,Berhampore,I passed through a period of dreams and friendship.I had so much friends at my School/College days.I can still remember them,their faces are still alive in my mind and  I feel an inseparable bond with them.They are now old and they have changed a lot.It is not easy to identify them.But  their child hood faces are so much alive in me that I still enjoy their company.I can remember Jiban and Anil who died young.During the final exam of Higher Secondary exam,Jeevan sat before me.After the exam,I don't know why but he was addicted to drugs.We are not very much aware of his habit but one day we heard that jeevan was no more.And Anil died of Titanus at a very early age most possibly sometimes in 1968.Dhalu ,a school friend of mine is also no more.I remember one day when I visited Dhalu's house before HS exam,I discovered that he was for the third time revising the entire syllabus and me not even attended to my studies.And I was shocked and from that day I started reading and reading and did not come out of my house.And the result was a nice one.I got the first division and also own a gold medal from the Nawab Bahadur of Murshidabad and also awarded Nizamat stipend.It was an eye catching achievement and I remember the afternoon the result came out,the beautiful girls of Lalbagh whom we admired much ,stared at me with unmixed admiration and I read in their eyes so much which was enough to keep me in top gear for months.