Refresher Course.

[Jayaprakash Anantharaman]

Everything began with the Birmingham University and Richard Hoggart. Perhaps earlier, with Raymond Williams. Then came Balamohan Thampi, people came for census to his house, not recognising him as the former VC. A broad and short introduction by the course co-ordinator. Then our Josco, I mean Jose co-ordinator and our beautiful Swapna madam, as her name indicates, a dream beauty, our cocoa. Then came Madhu sir with his cultural studies. What I liked was his ringtone. The phone rang in between and it was so sweet. I have now downloaded that flute music and put it as my ringtone, "Govardhana Giridhari". So much for his class. Then there was the magical Jayaram sir with his two sessions over two days which yet seemed so short. The Kathakali performance was superb and the handsome and graceful Kannan attracted many lady hearts. Then there were some women's magazines mostly 'read' by men. A race on racial studies. Meena Madam with her Women and Film would have wanted to flee with her car by tea break, but you know, force of circumstances made her continue. Two jokers got away with two whole days and eight thousand bucks before anyone could understand what was happening. Bajaj Pulsar dts i shaped like something and Respect. I played Respect continuously and Pawar sir shouted at me. Narayan Chandran wants to ask ID card of the Police and of the Indian President. Nice guys to mess up with. Raghavan Payyanadan was fortunate to be part of the group photo. Ansari just escaped being beaten up for some nonsense which made sense to him. Indugopan was one person who spoke what he knew rather than what other authors have said. Jameela Madam was smiling and sweet with her diaspora. Rajeswari madam performed her theatre mathematically. Raveendran sir made Bakthin go slow so that I could make some notes on his talk. Murali sir raised some eyebrows with his queer theory. Vayala sir declared war against war. Dr. Joy Philip came to treat us of the illnesses we contracted by sitting for 21 (or 22 I still don't know) days in class. Everything was wound up with a beautiful demonstration by Neena Prasad: yetho hastha tatho drishti, yetho drishti tatho mana, yetho mana thatho bhava, yetho bhava thatho rasa. And of course Kattakkayam turned Chittakkayam, putting us all into the kayam (turbulent waters) of hartal.

And what to say of the participants beginning with the Kalidasa, the sruthi, the smruthi, the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Mahabharatha. Yes, you are right. It is none other than our great Subash sir. The trouble is that we had a Maoist from Assam, Dr. Sanjib Sahoo with his Bihu dance, which attracted our Uma Madam so much that she made a mention of it in every possible occasion. He kept alive all the discussions with his knowledge of Indian and World History. I was surprised why no one asked, ok, I will sit there, you come and take the class. Sanjibji, Moi tuma phaal phom. The back benchers switched off the lights and went to sleep. Some others switched on their mobiles and watched I don't know what. Vani miss was all attention and took notes of all classes and even project presentations. The only time I saw her not taking notes was during Josco's presentation, I don't know why. Mini miss looks above her glasses to the 'Resource Persons' (why are they called that) and gives a very studious look. For Lakshmi Miss it does not matter whether it is this way or that way. Jasmine Miss is torn between two worlds, Kerala and Goa, but she has learnt something, how to make ulli theeyal. I hope she is properly advised. Ramanathan sir locked horns with everyone and made amends later, because the snacks were all very tasty. Sobhana miss went on taking photos but we haven't still seen a piece of it to this day. Vijila madam is attentive when everyone is asleep and sleeping in the most interesting classes. Mane sir is a gentle'mane'. Sanil Raj sir asked Hariharan sir what flimsy thing have you done and Hari sir got the shock of his life. We saw the funeral of Kamala Das on screen and that of Hari sir in the classroom. Now you know why people are unwilling to take classes for refresher courses. Reports say that they are caught unawares, packed in sacks and delivered at the Academic Staff College. Divya miss got sick even without sitting in many classes. How can one forget the beautiful song of Sindhu Miss, "Tere bina zindagi mein koi...shikva...to nahi...shikva nahi..". I miss you Miss. There were people who were mostly silent sufferers like Sneha Miss, Deepa Miss, and Ramajeyalakshmi miss. Given a chance, Muniyandi sir could speak on anything. I am grateful to Sajitha miss for providing the revenue stamp and that too without accepting the one rupee that I offered. Uma miss's poems and songs still ring in my years. Thanks to Prabha Miss for the beautiful paintings of Raja Ravi Varma.

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[Lakshmi Nair]

JP,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.! WOW!! WHAT a  wonderful summing up!!!! Congrats on doing such a brilliant incisive analysis!

[Mini Mohanan]

JP that was absolutely hilarious...ha.ha..ha..my children thoroughly ....smashingly enjoyed ur account...may good (refresher) God provide u more exhilarating RCs...

mini

On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:41:47 +0530 wrote

[kavi bk]

superb Mr. Aju Narayanan!!!!!!!!!this is really refreshing.... --- On Mon, 12/7/10, Mini Mohanan <mm6...@rediffmail.com> wrote:

[jasmine kurian]

Hi! JP Fantastic!!!!! thank you for refreshing our memory abt. the R C.U have attempted A DECONSTRUCTION OF   A  RC . PLS save it, you can surely make it your next  RC presentation and with  a few photographs ,a project.  TO ADD A NOTE ON YOU, JP DID EVERYTHING    THAT AJU  WAS PAID TO DO,AND NEVER GOT PAID FOR IT.

[DEEPA PRASANNAN]

My,if this is what happens 2 a guy after a spell of hibernation(Lakshmi quoted)I'm all 4 it ,man.4 a momnt I thot I was bak at the culture studies clas.But it is unfortunate that u saw only 1 beauty in the clas wen there were so many others in the batch.Quite unfair. Hint takn I hope.Bye.Keep up the gud work JP..

[sanchita bobby]

JP, this shud hav been ur CS proj...and I tho't u were busy takin down notes and being Dr Aju!!! But u missed a few miss's (like me for instance) and marginalised them as back benchers....

[swapna]

JP .... Kalakki..... a wonderful review of the whole course..... u
shud hav presented it on the last day.... huge thanx 4 the flatterg
words..... Shudnt u hav mentiond ur role too????

On Jul 11, 10:51 pm, "Jayaprakash Anantharaman" <jaype...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Everything began with the Birmingham University and Richard Hoggart. Perhaps earlier, with Raymond Williams. Then came Balamohan Thampi, people came for census to his house, not recognising him as the former VC. A broad and short introduction by the course co-ordinator. Then our Josco, I mean Jose co-ordinator and our beautiful Swapna madam, as her name indicates, a dream beauty, our cocoa. Then came Madhu sir with his cultural studies. What I liked was his ringtone. The phone rang in between and it was so sweet. I have now downloaded that flute music and put it as my ringtone, "Govardhana Giridhari". So much for his class. Then there was the magical Jayaram sir with his two sessions over two days which yet seemed so short. The Kathakali performance was superb and the handsome and graceful Kannan attracted many lady hearts. Then there were some women's magazines mostly 'read' by men. A race on racial studies. Meena Madam with her Women and Film would have wanted to flee with her car by tea break, but you know, force of circumstances made her continue. Two jokers got away with two whole days and eight thousand bucks before anyone could understand what was happening. Bajaj Pulsar dts i shaped like something and Respect. I played Respect continuously and Pawar sir shouted at me. Narayan Chandran wants to ask ID card of the Police and of the Indian President. Nice guys to mess up with. Raghavan Payyanadan was fortunate to be part of the group photo. Ansari just escaped being beaten up for some nonsense which made sense to him. Indugopan was one person who spoke what he knew rather than what other authors have said. Jameela Madam was smiling and sweet with her diaspora. Rajeswari madam performed her theatre mathematically. Raveendran sir made Bakthin go slow so that I could make some notes on his talk. Murali sir raised some eyebrows with his queer theory. Vayala sir declared war against war. Dr. Joy Philip came to treat us of the illnesses we contracted by sitting for 21 (or 22 I still don't know) days in class. Everything was wound up with a beautiful demonstration by Neena Prasad: yetho hastha tatho drishti, yetho drishti tatho mana, yetho mana thatho bhava, yetho bhava thatho rasa. And of course Kattakkayam turned Chittakkayam, putting us all into the kayam (turbulent waters) of hartal.
> And what to say of the participants beginning with the Kalidasa, the sruthi, the smruthi, the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Mahabharatha. Yes, you are right. It is none other than our great Subash sir. The trouble is that we had a Maoist from Assam, Dr. Sanjib Sahoo with his Bihu dance, which attracted our Uma Madam so much that she made a mention of it in every possible occasion. He kept alive all the discussions with his knowledge of Indian and World History. I was surprised why no one asked, ok, I will sit there, you come and take the class. Sanjibji, Moi tuma phaal phom. The back benchers switched off the lights and went to sleep. Some others switched on their mobiles and watched I don't know what. Vani miss was all attention and took notes of all classes and even project presentations. The only time I saw her not taking notes was during Josco's presentation, I don't know why. Mini miss looks above her glasses to the 'Resource Persons' (why are they called that) and gives a very studious look. For Lakshmi Miss it does not matter whether it is this way or that way. Jasmine Miss is torn between two worlds, Kerala and Goa, but she has learnt something, how to make ulli theeyal. I hope she is properly advised. Ramanathan sir locked horns with everyone and made amends later, because the snacks were all very tasty. Sobhana miss went on taking photos but we haven't still seen a piece of it to this day. Vijila madam is attentive when everyone is asleep and sleeping in the most interesting classes. Mane sir is a gentle'mane'. Sanil Raj sir asked Hariharan sir what flimsy thing have you done and Hari sir got the shock of his life. We saw the funeral of Kamala Das on screen and that of Hari sir in the classroom. Now you know why people are unwilling to take classes for refresher courses. Reports say that they are caught unawares, packed in sacks and delivered at the Academic Staff College. Divya miss got sick even without sitting in many classes. How can one forget the beautiful song of Sindhu Miss, "Tere bina zindagi mein koi...shikva...to nahi...shikva nahi..". I miss you Miss. There were people who were mostly silent sufferers like Sneha Miss, Deepa Miss, and Ramajeyalakshmi miss. Given a chance, Muniyandi sir could speak on anything. I am grateful to Sajitha miss for providing the revenue stamp and that too without accepting the one rupee that I offered. Uma miss's poems and songs still ring in my years. Thanks to Prabha Miss for the beautiful paintings of Raja Ravi Varma.

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[sindhu ajish]

JJJJJJJJJJJjjPPPPPPPPPPPPeeeeeeeeee....thank uuu for refreshing us  once again..... in 5 minutes we attended  all the classes once again ....

--
Regards
Sindhu.

[jasmine kurian]

HI EVERYBODY! HELLO SOBHANA AND SINDHU , WELCOME TO THE GANG   COCOA?????? HOW R YOU DOING? THANKS JP YOU HAVE MADE CO -CO INTO SOMEONE FULL OF ANTIOXIDANTS AND THE MAIN INGREDIENT OF CHOCOLATE . NOW I KNOW WHY SHE LOVES THE BLACK FOREST CAKE WHICH SHE PROMISED TO BRING AND DID'NT. JUST KIDDING SWAPNA.    HI! KAVI THANKS FOR LETTING US KNOW ABT. THE SEMINAR,   HI UT LAXMI THE UT WAS A REAL HIT THEORETICALLY BUT I DID NOT GET THE TIME TO CONDUCT THE EXPERIMENT.  HELLO, MINI,SANCHITA ,DEEPA ,JP REGARDS JASMINE

[sanjib sahoo]

hello Dr.aju, i been busy ever since i returned. not wt maoist activities. but plain domestic n college duties. read ur report n i agree wt al of it thou u hv been very kind to me. hv been doin meditation every now n den. but could nt meet mr. phukan til now. hello to d other ladies and gentlemen who hv been active. misin u al. cheri cheri. i hv attached a international seminar at bhu. so if ne is intrestd pls join. m planning to go

Dr. but the trouble is Sahoo

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Jayaprakash Anantharaman <jayp...@gmail.com> wrote:

[jasmine kurian]

hi everybody you guys missed a party today,but i thought of you all when i cut the cake. hi DR Sahoo. welcome.The seminar looks very interesting. will keep in touch.   --- On Sun, 7/18/10, sanjib sahoo <sanjib...@gmail.com> wrote:

From: sanjib sahoo <sanjib...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Refresher Course. To: csrefr...@googlegroups.com

[Jayaprakash Anantharaman]

Phaal. Hobo hobo.

At last Sahooji has opened his mouth. I must bring it to the attention of the participants that after 22 days of listening and speaking, Sahoo Maharaj decided to go into a vow of silence for another 22 days. We are blessed that he has come out of that spell. There are many others who are still to recover from the culture shock inflicted by Kattakayam and party. Jasmine miss was saying that Dr. Aju got paid for whatever I did. That is nothing compared to the resource persons looting all the money and Dr. Sahoo doing all the talking. We are also sad that he had to put up with that horrible tea which he asked, "Barthan dho ke diya he kya?" It is Sahooji's considered opinion that dishwashed water has the same appearance and a better taste. He says Kerala is not all that is projected outside. In his own words, "Haati ke do danth hote hein, ek dikhane wale or ek khane wale." But we all envy the way Sahoo spoke throughout, which for him is "Bayein haat ka khel". Subalterns we. Bacchan as coolie wears trousers worth forty dollars. We are neither Bacchan nor coolies. Nor do we wear such costly trousers. It is flood again in Guwahati and surrounding areas. Have you started fishing in the highways?

I have been going through the various responses to my report and I appreciate all that appreciation. However I have also noted that some of my remarks created a hartal like atmosphere to a few. Though these people were not disgruntled, they were far from gruntled. I stand corrected. All the lady participants are really beautiful. I will refrain from such remarks because I also see that the conversations are also read by the family members of the participants. I smell danger from certain quarters. One Ansari may have got away unhurt but no such luck to every JP.

I am leaving for Lucknow on Tuesday to attend the 84th birthday celebration of my Master. I will catch up later with the class.

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[DEEPA PRASANNAN]

dr.sanjib,we were starting 2 get desperate at not hearing from u.welcom 2 the fold. And JP,apology accepted.Dont evr forget that the best way 2 make an enemy of a wmn is to tell her that another wmn is beautifl.Sanchita,Jasmn,Kavita,Mini,hi.Swapnasundari...hi 2 u too.Ramanathan sir ,the soul that inspired me,hi.Sanchita, wheres Krishna prabha ma'.m.regards 2 her.

[jasmine kurian]

HELLO  MON AMI DR SAHOO. I AM STILL WAITING FOR THE CD ON BIHU  AT LEAST ONE SONG WITH THE DANCE SEQUENCE. I WOULD LIKE TO POPULARISE IT IN GOA. DEFINITELY NOT COMMERCIALISE REGARDS TO ALL JAS

[vani k]

Dear friends,

 

Hai to all of you. How are you all? Had been busy here and so couldn't write to u all. But had read all ur mails.

 

Our Uma mam had been hospitalised. She had a stroke. Had called her some days back. Rt now, I don't know what her condition is.

 

I need ur help. Don't mind the formal language of what follows, for it was sent to many.

 

Kindly find attached a questionnaire which is intended as a survey among college teachers who teach English. This is prepared in order to solicit the views of teachers, based on which I intend to make a study and present a seminar paper on Monday.Could you please answer the questionnaire and send it to other lecturers of English who might like to answer it? Kindly reply if you can afford to spare the time and the effort required. Kindly address the answers to vanik...@yahoo.com. A word of gratitude in advance to anyone who would answer the questions.

 

Yours truly,

Sd/-

Vani K

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From: jasmine kurian <kurian_...@yahoo.com>
To: csrefr...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wed, July 21, 2010 10:07:28 PM
Subject: Re: Refresher Course.

[sanjib sahoo]

dear jasmine sory abt d bihu cd. wl send it soon. just send me ur postal address.
maoist from assam