School Reunion

About 60 Bangaloreans from different parts of the city descended on a place in Bangalore because they were all alumni from St Xaviers, Bokaro Steel City. Schools, and particularly St Xavier's Bokaro, have that ability -- to draw old students from everywhere. The reunion of the Bokaro Old Xaverians' Association (BOXA) on Sunday, January 10 2010, was for everyone who had studied at St Xavier's Bokaro and not limited to any batch. I was there at about 6pm. Including me, there were three people from my batch. Though I could recognise the teachers very well, I was unsure who the others were. It was the same with them I guess. They did not know who I was. So though we had studied at the same school, it was much like meeting a new set of people. Yet, there was a thread of commonness and nobody felt uncomfortable. Nobody pretended to be what they were not. I think that happens when you know you are part of the same past.

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