The lecture...

“And so we’ve come to the end of this session…(sighs of relief). But one more point students, that I missed out eeeess…”
“Maaaaaaaaa’mm….”(annoyed groans).

Class IX-B, Moral Science class, the eight period, the first bench, two oily plaits, drenched in Mrs. Angel Pinto’s generous shower of saliva – no points for guessing! Yeah that’s me and this is exactly the fifty-second time I’m taking a desperate sneak peek at my watch.

“ Eve-teasing is one of the worsest crimes of today (worsest??? Could it get worse than this??? Muffled giggles.) The main reason behind this is (looking straight into my eyes) you girls” (gasps of horror from the accused lot).

“Every evening I see you girls in the beach, hopping around in mini skirts and micro mini shorts. Don’t think there is no one to watch you and catch you girls! (What were you doing at the beach ma’m?) You all are fooling your parents by such misbehaviour. And by fooling your parents, you are fooling God. And by fooling God, you are fooling whom? Yourselves girls, yourselves. Finally what is the result of such shameless dressing? Eve-teasing! Of course the boys will be tempted. Now can we blame them? (I stole an embarrassed glance at the boys. Even newborns seemed less innocent!) .”

Now, an indecent accusation as such is insulting enough. But getting accused in front of the “men” was way too insulting!!! It was one of those rare moments when I felt like a total jerk. We had the most immoral session of moral science class that day.

Swearing under our breath, we, the most ‘demeaning creation of God’ silently vowed to get back at Mrs. Angel Pinto. Angel...ironical isn’t it?

Tick..tick..tick..tick..tick..tick.tick..tick..Trrrrrrrrrrrrringg…

After what seemed like an eternity, we heard the God sent school bell go! With unconcealed happiness, we let out sighs of relief and started packing our bags.
I felt like I needed to be on glucose to catch up on my pathetically spent energy. “How on earth did I live through this lecture?? Phew”… But unfortunately my happiness was short lived…for soon after I heard her saying, “ Thank you children, see you next class!”