Schooled under mulberry tree

  Author:  Suri@blogger.com  My classroom could boast of four brick walls around but no roof; I and my fellow classmates sat on wooden boards with black slates on our laps. Writing chalk was supplied by our school teacher. If I were to eyeball my classroom today I would say it was around 12 ft by 12 ft in size within the four brick walls with no plaster on them; each wall standing 8 ft high. Two of the walls had openings without window frames and the entry door was 6 ft by 3 ft with a wooden door frame with no doors; a small piece of iron railing with holes in it hung from the door frame.   Corrugated zinc (aluminum?) sheets to serve as the roof for my classroom were on order but had not yet arrived. They would not be received for another year either because someone had messed up with the purchase order for my first school or they were taken away to build military barracks in east-Bangalore to house returning WWII soldiers from my hometown. There was a mulberry tree ...