12. Four Pillars

In Search of Swami series. Semi-autobiographical work about my school days. Sri Vidya Mandir, Salem.

I guess a kid is innovative than an adult, at least in the games they play. 

While cricket and seven stones were playing a battle in outdoor category, an indoor game, yet it had some running and jumping activity was being conceived by few students. This four pillar game was played on the first floor of the hostel.

The first and only floor of the hostel had a long hall. Earlier, 3rd, 4th and 5th school classes were held there, now the classes were shifted to the new school building, so all the partitions was removed. Some places had the perfectly square area with pillars in its borders. 

There were five players in the game. Four will choose and stick to each pillar and one will be a rider. The four has to interchange the places in random order and in this process if the rider touches anyone he is “out”.

One Sunday afternoon, me, Aravind, Selva and Vino were playing four pillars. The pillars had the dwarf wall and we had to jump on them or jump from them while interchanging the places. Usually no one will notice it, but on that day we got over enthusiasm and started running\jumping hard. 

The students in ground floor got super annoyed; we were playing on top of the Shradha hall, which was the big boy’s hall. Radhakrishnan, our senior was the hall in charge. He locked the exits of the first floor and informed to the warden, the master blaster. We were never aware of this and after playing when we tried to go down, but the gates were locked. We shouted and after sometime warden opened the gate. He gave us a free tour of the first floor with his cane.

From that day Radhakrishnan was christened as “Kakka” Radhakrishnan.

Enough of games and sport, let us see something food for thought in the next chapter.

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