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Stories seen, heard and half-remembered from a 1990s Pune childhood, and the years just after.
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School plans that were too clever, teachers nobody questioned, hostel rumours nobody checked, and small stories that turned out to mean something. Some are in Marathi. All of them are true, more or less.
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School stories · Crescent High School, Pune · 1990s
Days Under the Crescent Sun
Plans that were too clever, teachers who were never questioned, and the people who made it all bearable.
Story 026 min
100 Days, Zero Sleep
A horror film, three bench mates, and a title nobody could explain
Story 034 min
Neither Early Bird nor Late Owl
Morning schools, afternoon schools, and Crescent
Story 054 min
Punish Meant
Four Crescent experiments in unintended consequences
Story 107 min
The Curious Case of a Little Book
One glossy magazine, three suspects, and a father who agreed with everything
Story 136 min
Where Is the Paper?
Six exams a year, two weeks each, and the calm of a true-blood Crescentian
Story 145 min
Lessons from the Christmas Party
Shared gulab jamuns, crumbling ladoos, a rigged lottery and the game theory of a ₹30 gift
Story 155 min
Board de Merite
Toppers, prodigies, a hundred relatives, and what you actually get for coming in the merit list
Story 163 min
Yellow Yellow, Dirty Fellow
Six colours, one tie nobody can tie, and the riddles Crescent never explained
The staff room
teachers we never questioned
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ProfileStories heard among friends · मराठी + English
ऐकलेले किस्सेAiklele Kisse
Hostel rooms, combined study and Sunday mornings: stories nobody quite saw but everybody heard. Told in Marathi, retold in English.
कोणी नीट बघितलेल्या नाहीत, पण सगळ्यांनी ऐकलेल्या गोष्टी. मराठीत सांगितलेल्या, इंग्रजीत पुन्हा सांगितलेल्या.
Reliability ●●○○○
Combined studyChapter 14
अभ्यासाला जायचे म्हणजे झोपायला जायचे, हे तिघांनाही माहीत होते.
Hostel Hearsay · Room 10 × 12नुसती ऐकलेली फुटबॉल मॅच
The Football Match Nobody Sawएक रविवार, नऊ रूममेट, कधीच न पोहोचलेली मॅच, आणि बक्षीस मिळवणारा एक सेल्फ गोल
Hostel Hearsay · Room 10 × 12ऐकलेले प्रवचन
The Sermon Mangu Heardएक रविवार, एक कपाटभर पुस्तकं, आणि चार राज्यं जिंकून नाश्त्यापुढे हरलेला एक राजा
Hostel Hearsay · Room 10 × 12ऐकलेला बस डेपो
The Bus Depot We Heard Aboutएक पेपर, बसच्या शिक्क्यांवरचा एक भव्य सिद्धांत, आणि मंगूचा एक प्रश्न
Funny on top · a small meaning underneath
Fables & Parables
A samosa, a bread sticker, a forwarded text, four English phrases and a tortoise that kept on winning. Each one is a joke first and a lesson only if you look.
Story 01For You It Will Always Be Free
A child's war against inflation, fought over a samosa
Moral, of sortsEvery price in Pune went up, except the one that mattered.
Story 06Geometric Progression
One fable, five exams, and an answer that kept growing while the moral stood still
Moral, of sortsSlow and steady wins the race. Only the answer keeps growing.
Story 09Poetic Justice, and Other Lessons
Four English phrases, and the Crescent days that explained them
Moral, of sortsCrescent never bothered with the dictionary. It just supplied the context.
Story 17Fourteen Owen Harts
Bread stickers, trump cards, a home-made football deck, and five PhD theses nobody will ever write
Moral, of sorts“Nothing”, given a whole summer, can fill ten A4 sheets.
Story 18Kuber Rush
One forwarded text, one 11.3 BHP bike, and the day all of Pune went looking for Lord Kuber before 8:30 pm
Moral, of sortsWe had been inside the Kuber temple all along.
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