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The Cathedral & John Connon Alumni Magazine

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ContentsEditorial 3

Presidents Message 4

150 Years 7

School Update

On Location

Spotlight

Changing Tracks

Out of the Box

Reflections

Off the Shelf

Teacher Updates 31

In Memoriam 34

Reunions 39

Class Notes 42

Crossword 64

A Message from the Principal

Sonali Sachdev

Alyque Padamsee with Cyrus Broacha

Piloo Hakim

Vijaya Gupchup

Amit Chaudhuri

Shiamak Davar

2009 Te X-Cathedrali

Editorial TeamMiel Sahgal (ISC 1989, Palmer)

Udita Jhunjhunwala (ICSE 1984, Barham)

Shyla Boga Patel (ISC 1969, Savage)

Ragini Ghose (ISC 1972, Savage)

BusinessRohita Chaganlal Doshi (ISC 1975, Wilson)

Design and PrintingRishita Chandra, Nikunj Parikh

Spenta Multimedia

This magazine is not for sale and is intended forinternal circulation only. Any material from thismagazine may not be reproduced in part or whole

without written consent. Views and opinions expressedin this magazine are those of the individual authorsand not necessarily those of the Publishers.

Published by The Cathedral and John Connon AlumniAssociation, 6, P.T. Marg, Mumbai 400 001 and printedat Spenta Multimedia, Peninsula Spenta, MathuradasMill Compound, Lower Parel, Mumbai 400 013.

www.spentamultimedia.com

Cover photo:Kunal Kampani, Spenta

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Looking Back, Looking Forward

GAIA: A Response to Climate Changed

A oast to the Amul Girl

SOAK in the City

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Learning on the Job

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We are delighted to bringyou another issue of ourvery own, home-grown,

Te X Cathedralite.All the writing,editing and compilation has

been done voluntarily, eked outof the spare time of alumni whograduated over a range of decades,from the 40s to the 2000s.

It has been heartwarming tosee the sheer number of peoplewho have sent in contributions both editorial and financial.Were pleased to have been ableto increase the number of pagesthis year and are sorry that westill havent managed to publisheverything we would have liked to.

Te issue brings a mix offeatures and facts to keep you intouch with our alma mater and thethousands of alumni whove spenta better part of their youth there.Trough these pages we updateyou about recent developments

in School (On Location) as well

as reminisce about a time goneby, with Alyque Padamsee, PilooHakim and Vijaya Gupchup

(Reflections). We share the life

stories of ex-Cathedralites MiraiChaterjee (Out of the Box) andShiamak Davar (Spotlight) anda short story from acclaimed

writer Amit Chaudhuri (Off theShelf). We bring you plans for the

upcoming 150th year celebrations,and invite suggestions for your

further involvement with thealumni community. And just aglimpse through the Class Notes

pages provides an indication

of what a diverse and dynamiccommunity this is.

Tis is a special year, a goodone for alumni to renew ties with

Cathedral. As new schools withspanking new facilities mushroomacross Mumbai, something about

Cathedral continues to keep it

at the top of our minds (and theschool ratings). Perhaps, it is thecommitment to education, orthe exceptional extra-curricularopportunities, or the illustrious

alumni body. Or perhaps it is theSchools unique 150-year-oldhistory that no new mega-budget project can acquire. Ashared history that connectseach and every one of us whohave walked down those stone-walled corridors.

Editorial Team

Editorial

I just flew back into Mumbai and

found a copy of Te X-Cathedralite

waiting for me. Great job!

Anish Trivedi

(HSC 1979, Savage)

I attended my 30 year (ICSE 1978)

reunion dinner yesterday and

came home this evening to find

TeX-Cathedralite. Good job, well

done! Keep it up Let it Rip, Let it

Tunder! Let me know if I can helpfor the 150 year celebrations.

Salman Noorani

(HSC 1981, Palmer)

I received the latest issue of Te

X-Cathedralitemagazine which

made me feel as if I had passed

out of school just yesterday. I read

Feedback about some of my old teachersand got to know what they had

been doing I have learnt so

much from them. Tat each and

every product from Cathedral

has been so successful in their

own field just goes to speak

volumes about how we have been

groomed in our fundamental

years. It was really great to see

pictures of my classmates, some

whom I have not seen since

we left school. I am definitely

looking forward to the next

reunion. I am currently with

Merrill Lynch India as Assistant

Vice-President with their Private

Banking business. Kudos to

the entire team for putting

together a great magazine.

2009 TeX-Cathedral

We look forward to your feedback at [email protected]

Porus Kaka (1974)

Pankaj Kalra (1983)

Mitali Anand Kalra (1989)

Naheed Lalkaka - Sorabjee (1974)

Kalpesh Loonawat (1988)

Gaurav alwar (1994)

We would like to thank thefollowing donors for theirgenerous contribution:

Im extremely proud to be a

Cathedralite. Tank you.Rajkumar Talreja

(ICSE 1990, Savage)

I have just seen the latest copy of

Te X-Cathedralite.Te team has

done an excellent job!

Christopher David

(ICSE 1984)


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In November this year our school turns 149. A yearlater, 150. One hundred and fifty is a lot of yearsand the Alumni Association wants to do something

meaningful and enduring; we want to set in place aHealth and Medical Benefit Scheme for RetiredTeachers and Staff who have worked for 10 years ormore. Tis is our tribute to all those who have given thisinstitution its formidable reputation.

Our research tells us there is a crying need for this.We would like to ensure that every staff member feelssecure, and lives and ages with dignity. Our Schemeenvisages a two-pronged approach: First, a Medical

Assistance Scheme with a panel of doctors which willgive free or partially-free treatment. We already have80 alumni and parent doctors who have very kindlyvolunteered. Second, since hospitalisation is cripplinglyexpensive, we are working on a group insurance policyfor about 30 teachers. With rising medical and insurancecosts, our target is to raise at least Rs. one crore towardsthis endeavour so that we are comfortable for the next

Presidents Message

Dear Friends,

Its been almost a year since wetook over as Co-Presidents anda lot has happened in that time.

Little things and big things, happy

ones and terribly sad ones.We had a remarkable turnout at our

Founders Day brunchin the MiddleSchool. With Ernie on keyboard andvocals, a good time was had by all. TeClass of 1958 were there in full forceand fine voice, and we believe theyreally enjoyed the morning, as did allthe others present.

Te School vs. Alumni CricketMatchheld at the Hindu Gymkhanawas organised by Sanjay Shah (1982),

ably supported by Chirag Doshi(1990). Te school team won, but ourday will come!

Te 14th Annual Golf ournamentat the Willingdon Sports Club wasonce again an outstanding success, sowell organised by Akshay Kilachand(1988), Pushpa Bhatia (1953), Meher

Amersey (1960) and Kiran Kanwar.Just a couple of weeks later we

were sad and sombre. Te terrorist

attacks in Mumbai on 26thNovemberleft us all paralysed. We lost threemembers of the Association AshokKapur (1959, Palmer), Sanjay

Agarwal (1977, Wilson) and Sunil

Parekh (1980, Savage), nine parents,a former teacher and two little boys.Tere is really nothing one can sayin the face of such a tragedy; we aretruly sorry and our sympathies go outto all those affected by this senselessmassacre, wherever they may be.

Te X-Cathedralitewas releasedin December 2008 and was verywell received. Our thanks to MielSahgal and Udita Jhunjhunwala forproducing the magazine so seamlessly

and perfectly. And as you can seefrom this issue, they have done itagain. Our thanks also to RohitaDoshi for working so hard to getthe sponsors for both issues and, ofcourse, to the sponsors themselves.

In January 2009, we held theschool leavers tea organised byRangita Bhatnagar. Te food wasvery good and we immediately hadabout 170 new members from the

ISC and ICSE classes! Most of thesestudents will be studying all over theworld at this stage, but we believethat when they return, they willmake a significant contribution to

the Association.On April 16, we had a marvelous

evening at Magic in Mumbai. Teremarkable turnout assured us thatthe old school spirit hasnt faded,and the camaraderie lives on.

Te Eighth Cathedral SummerSchool was held at Manori at the endof April. Once again, it comprisedof 45 Cathedral children and 25from Manori village. Simply put,the children had a blast while

engaging in various activities likekite-making, pottery, dance, art,astronomy and magic. Te Alumni

Association contributed Rs. 35,000and Rohita Doshi Rs. 50,000 from theLalchand Hirachand Premier rust.Plans are already underway for nextyears camp.

Our main thrust this year has beento focus on creating a new websiteand updating our database. Te idea

few years. We look to each of you to make our dream, forthis historic year, come true.

A governance plan will be set in place and the fund willbe monitored and managed by the present Co-Presidents,and Pranay Shah (ISC 1970), Rama Iyer (ICSE 1984) andBibhash Asar (ICSE 1986).

Further, to enable us to receive contributions fromour alumni overseas, we have applied for our FCRAregistration. In the meantime, they could help us byproviding funds directly from India. We ask that yourcontribution reflect the large need and that you will be

generous based on your means whether it is Rs. 5,000,10,000, 50,000 or one lakh, five or 10 lakhs or more!

We look forward to your help to make this project asuccess. All donations will be duly acknowledged andwill receive an 80G certificate. Please make your chequein favour of: Cathedral and John Connon Alumni

Association Medical Fund and post it to:Te Cathedral and John Connon Alumni Association,6, Purshotamdas Takurdas Marg, Fort, Mumbai 400001.

Shyla Boga Patel and Viral Doshi

Co-Presidents

The Big Plan


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was to revamp the website in timefor the 150th year celebrations.Tis was executed by UditaJhunjhunwala and Miel Sahgal. Weare having a few teething troubleswith both the website and database,but are working very hard at settingthese right.

We are fortunate to have asour new honorary webmasterGautam Shewakramani (2001),who we are sure, will get thingson track very soon. Databases aredynamic, so please get in touch

with Gautam at [email protected] and update your details andput your news and views on thewebsite. It is imperative that everymember is a part of our databaselong before November 2010, soplease volunteer to be class leadersor chapter representatives. Also,if you or your friends haventregistered as members, please goto www.catalumni.com and do so,preferably, NOW!

As of September we have aHelpdesk operating from the GreenRoom of the Junior School from3 p.m. to 5 p.m. three times a week.

You can call 9930577120 or [email protected] further information about it.Tank you Mrs. Isaacs, for makingthis possible.

On November 14 we will havea lovely evening with a live band,

a great dinner and lots of alumni atBlue Sea, Mumbai. We are sure this

will be a very special evening and afitting start to our 150th year.After years of talking about it, we

have finally applied for our FCRAregistrationto enable us to receivedonations in foreign exchange tohelp with our plans for the 150thyear. Te papers are with the HomeMinistry. Bureaucratic wheels turnvery slowly and there has beenmuch delay in getting this through.We expect this will happen soon

and we will be able to accept thesecontributions.

alking about matters of finance:Our treasurer Chitra Rajkumar hasplayed a truly stellar role this yearand we cannot thank her enough

for all her meticulous hard work.Our alumnus, friend and Chartered

Accountant, Surin Kapadia (ISC1998) has been equally wonderful.

Our appreciation also to AmitAdvani, Anand Shroff, GopikaSaran, Pragni Kapadia, PrakashTadani, Ragini Ghose andRangita Bhatnagar for being suchsupportive committee members.

And finally, to Mrs. Isaacs, a bigthank you for all her time, help andadvice amidst her already madlybusy schedule.

Shyla Boga Patel and Viral DoshiCo-Presidents

The Executive Committee looks forward toyour active involvement with the Association.Please do contact us on the Cathedral AlumniHelpline (99305 77120) or through our website

www.catalumni.com.

Executive Committee

2009-2010

Office Bearers

Co-PresidentsShyla Boga Patel(ISC 1969, Savage)

[email protected]

Viral Doshi(ISC 1975, Palmer)

[email protected]

Vice-Presidents

Rohita Chaganlal Doshi(ISC 1975, Wilson)

Miel Sahgal(ISC 1989, Palmer)

Co-Treasurers

Chitra Rajkumar(1956, Savage)

Pragni Kapadia(ISC 1994, Palmer)

Secretary

Ragini Ghose(ISC 1972, Savage)

Committee MembersMrs. Meera Isaacs (ex officio)

Amit Advani(ISC 1994, Palmer)

Anand Shroff(ICSE 1985, Palmer)

Rama Iyer

(ICSE 1984, Barham)

Bibhash Asar(ICSE 1986,Palmer)

Co-opted Members

Prakash Thadani(ISC 1969, Savage)

Rangita Bhatnagar(ISC 1989, Palmer)

Mukeeta Jhaveri

(ISC 1983, Savage)

Nikhil Raghavan(ISC 1992, Savage)

Udita Jhunjhunwala(ICSE 1984, Barham)

Aditya Dhawan(ISC 1996, Wilson)


Seated (L to R): Rohita Doshi, Chitra Rajkumar, Shyla Boga Patel, Viral DoshiStanding (L to R): Amit Advani, Ragini Ghose, Miel Sahgal, Udita Jhunjhunwala, Pragni Kapadia, Rangita Bhatnagar


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The 150th Year

Celebrations

The 150th year commemorative tie will be available at

the Zodiac showrooms at the Taj Mahal Hotel, Mumbai,

and Khan Market, New Delhi.

Schools dont turn 150 every day. So what are the plans for our big birthday?

One plan, the big plan, is to start a Medical Benefit Scheme for Retired eachersand Staff (please see page 4).

Alumnus Fareed Zakaria, Editor ofNewsweekInternational and host of theinternational affairs programme, Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN, will be giving usa talk on Monday, 21st December 2009 and we hope many of you will attend it.Further details on the time and location will be e-mailed to you and displayed onthe website.

Also in the pipeline is the definitive, exhaustive history of the Cathedral School.Crammed with interesting information with which you may not be familiar - likethat when the foundation of the JB Petit School for Girls was laid, it was actuallymeant to have been for the Cathedral School. Or that through some of its historythe school existed in tents. But the book is finally about all of you, the alumni andteachers, and we need your inputs immediately! What absolutely stands out inyour mind about your years in Cathedral School? Your spontaneous reflectionsare, of course, important, as well as thoughts recollected in tranquillity, with thewisdom of hindsight. Please write to the authors Mridula Maluste (1973) and ViralDoshi (1975) at [email protected]

We are planning two golf tournaments among other sports events duringthe year. Please do have a look at the updates on our website. Various itemsof memorabilia will be on sale and we have created a very special 150th yearcommemorative tie. Please call the alumni helpline on 99305 77120 for furtherinformation.

Our committee member, Rangita Bhatnagar (ISC 1989, Palmer) has beenappointed Chairperson of the 150th year committee. We are an integral partof this team and will help in every way possible. Te major events will be in thesecond week of November 2010, when we will be having school concerts, a tourof all the school buildings from 1860 onwards, a church service and a grand finalewith a dinner at the urf Club where a postage stamp, a first day cover and thebook on the history of the Cathedral School will be launched.



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Recently, the U.S. President, Mr. Obamaarticulated what we have known for a long time.In urging Americans to raise their standards

of education, he said, We cant afford our kids to bemediocre at a time when theyre competing againstkids in China and India. (He should know, as Indiansare being inducted into his team on an almost weeklybasis!). Now that the Indian school system has beenvalidated, warts and all, by no less a person than thePresident of the most powerful country, let me assureyou that our students have lived up to this belief. Te

proof of the pudding, as the saying goes, is in theeating in this case, the Public Examination results.

Outgoing studentsOf the 145 ICSE candidates who appeared, 56 placedin the above 90 per cent category, 64 in the 80s, 17 inthe 70s and four between 64 and 70 per cent. Te soft-spoken Akshat Mullerpatan swept to first place with96.67 per cent.

urning our attention to the ISC results, 33 placedin the 90s and above, 38 between 81 and 89, 18 in the70s and 4 in the 66-69 bracket. Akshay Sukthankar,

another modest young man brought laurels to himselfand the School by standing first in Maharashtra with96.20 per cent. At the College Board our studentsraised the bar once again to a record high with a meanSA Reasoning Score of 2034 out of a possible 2400.Compare this to the world mean of approximately1600. Te Advanced Placement Programme is growingfrom strength to strength with a total of 42 studentsfrom Classes 8 to 12 enrolled this year. Te US hadbetter look out for here comes the Indian juggernaut toadd to Mr. Obamas consternation, and maybe to somefuture Presidents team!

Led by the versatile and multi-faceted duo ofAshwini Kerkar our Head Girl and Dhruv oshniwalour Head Boy, 95 talented young men and womenwho contributed in unequal measure to their teacherseuphoria and heartburn, are now poised to take onthe world with youthful exuberance and legendaryCathedral panache, tempered, I trust, with a sense ofhumility and a sound knowledge of right and wrong.

As is the wont of any institution, people come, leavetheir own special mark, and then, sadly, they have tomove on. Each year a group of Std. 12 students pass

A message from the Principal,Mrs. Meera Isaacs

out to be replaced by their successors. So also teachersmove on for various reasons.

Tanking our teachersWe thank our teachers who have left, for the dedicationand commitment that they brought to the School. Duringthe past year we lost two dear and well-regarded formerteachers in Mr. John Lewis, Mathematics wizard, whowas Vice-Principal of the School from 1981 to 1991and Dr. V. Krishnan, Head of the English Department.Both gentlemen went on to lead schools Mr. Lewis asPrincipal of Campion and Dr. V. Krishnan as Principal ofHiranandani School, Powai. Teir students and formercolleagues came together in a bond of shared grief to payrich tributes to both these stalwarts who have touched somany lives.

Stepping outTe global economic meltdown and rising protectionismdemand that we prepare our students to face change onall fronts and especially in the job market. o this endour Guidance Counsellor, and the ever-supportive parentand alumnus Vikram Uttamsingh organised a SchoolCareer Fair on January 31 this year, with 33 professionalsspanning 21 careers to give our students an understandingof what is waiting out there for them once they step out of

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their sheltered existence of School and Home.I only state the obvious when I say that Cathedralites

are some of the most fortunate of students withopportunities dropping into their laps like mannafrom heaven. Our students continue to excel at sport,drama, music, debates, poetry and much more. In fact,too much to put into this message, but a few cases inpoint. Fourteen students from Std. XI attended the

Young Leaders Programme in Science at rinity College,Melbourne. Te International Mathematics Olympiadsaw 17 of our students as award winners. Close totwo lakh students competed in the Olympiad. We areproud to state that Cathedral was awarded the trophyfor outstanding performance. wo of our students

were in the U.S. as part of a group of international highschoolers attending the NASA residential space camp foran interactive astronautical experience.

With its inception in 1997, the Cathedral ModelUnited Nations has been the pioneer of Model UNsin India. Tis year our student organisers, arrangedfor all the funding themselves. For the first time sixschools from as far as Assam, Kolkata, Dehradun andDelhi, participated at CMUN taking the total numberof participating schools to 18. Te CMUN is thespringboard for the prestigious Harvard Model UnitedNations at Boston which nineteen of our studentsattended as representatives of the Republic of Slovenia.

A first for us was an invitation to Cambridge.Incidentally, we were the only School from India to begiven this honour. Seventeen senior students attendedthe Reach Cambridge programme for two weeks inthe hallowed precincts of that ancient University town.Likewise, six of our Std. 8 students attended a twoweek Summer Programme this May conducted by DukeUniversity at IIM, Ahmedabad. Again we are the onlySchool in Mumbai to have been invited to partner withthe Khemka Foundation and Columbia University in the

Global Ethical Leaders Programme. We began with Stds.8 and 9 last year, this year we shall induct the Seniorclasses into it as well. However, my goal is to evolve ourown Ethical Leadership Programme which we could makethe core of our School experience beginning with ouryoungest at the Pre-Primary level.

Community service

In India there are still 300 million illiterates, and as manypoor. In contrast, those of us who have anything to dowith Cathedral know how blest we are. We accept ourgood fortune with grace (I hope!) and translate some

of that into helping those less privileged. CommunityService is an innate part of the Cathedral learning

process. It begins early with the babies of our Pre-Primary contributing their mite to help support thechildren of VOICE, St. Josephs Home, and Save theChildren Foundation.

At the Infant School, the fun fair last November wasenjoyed by not only our children but also by specialguests from the ata Memorial Cancer Hospital andtheir parents. Te Infant School also sponsors a childfrom World Vision. Tey presented two wheel chairs forchildren at the ata Memorial Hospital and a substantialsum to Asha Sadan.Te Junior Schools social service spans a host of

organisations including 12 different organizations forchildren which are as far flung as Saswad near Pune toTane and Colaba. Tey raised Rs.1,23,000/- for the SOSChildrens Villages. Te Middle School has its regularSocial Service Programme every Tursday with thechildren of the Doorstep School. Tey too have various

organisations on their radar including the Cancer Society

and ALER India. All social service and community

welfare activities of the Senior School are directedthrough the Interact Club. Volunteers work with Savera,

the Colaba Municipal School, Salaam Balakand the

Akankshacentres.Both our Art and Music Departments continue to

flourish and our students enjoy what they do, as well

as compete at various fora and return with awards for

their prowess. While an annual public art exhibition has

become the order of the day the proceeds of which areslotted for various causes, the Cathedral Music Festival

saw nine bands, five solo artists and three groups of

dancers perform to a packed Senior School quadrangle.

Te youngest member of the band was from Std. 5, withnone other than Ehsaan Noorani (of the Ehsaan-Shankar

-Loy trio) and incidentally also a former student, as Chief

Guest. Te proceedings then took on a distinct glamourquotient. Te noise that was generated was much

appreciated by the young and shudderingly tolerated by

the others. Te profits of almost 15 lakhs were divided

between YUVA,a venture by former Cathedralites,andVOICE two NGOs that cater to the needs of children.

Te restructuring of the curriculum and changes that

began three years ago, are now showing results. I believe

that if you have to swallow a toad, dont stare at it toolong. It was a huge leap of faith. Te dividends have

been richly rewarding.

If you have to swallow a toad, dont stare at it too long.


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10 Te X-Cathedralite November

Alumni ties

We continue to cherish our ties with the AlumniAssociation. Tey add value to the School whether it isthrough responding to medical emergencies as Dr. AnandGokani does, or organising speakers for the Brown Bag

lunches for the Seniors or planning, as the indomitableShyla Boga Patel does, the Cathedral Summer Schoolwhich has evolved into a popular and worthwhile annualfeature between our students and the children of thefishing village of Manori. Mr. David Long does yeomanservice tending to his flock at Manori with the able helpof his piercing whistle and stentorian voice.

Positive action

Life for us in Mumbai will never be the same after theterrorist attacks in which so many innocents lost theirlives or were gravely wounded. We mourned with our

country at the carnage and for the loss, in particular,of loved ones at the School. We tried to find closure ofa kind in the multi-faith Memorial Service held in theSenior School quadrangle, but we will not and cannotforget the senseless horror of it all. However, fromthe pain has sprung a new beginning. A group of our An excerpt from the Principals speech at the annual prize distribution ceremony.

15-year-olds were moved to initiate positive actionin their search for answers. Teir magazine Spectrumis a document of their quest and a testament to theboundless spirit of youth.

What I love about our young people is their

swashbuckling, almost buccaneering style theirfreshness of vision, their enterprise and adventure,their courage to innovate and to challenge themselvesand their never-say-die attitude. Te sense of energyand enjoyment that they bring to the tasks that interestthem is truly amazing. Tis magazine is but oneexample. It was their idea, they set up the meetings withvarious political figures, worked on the finance and theproduction details. Teir goal was to put it into adulthands before the city went to the polls. Discipline, hardwork and creativity worked in tandem to give us thisglossy first issue. It is, of course, to their advantage that

they have a captive audience this morning. Each of youwill receive a copy as you leave the hall. You are welcometo get it autographed if you so desire! Tey will be onlytoo happy to oblige.

School Update

Photo:RayomandJ.

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hree years after the pioneering new teachingsystem was launched at Cathedral, EducationalConsultant Usha Pandit speaks with infectious

enthusiasm of the headway made in this bold,innovative and revolutionary approach to education.Creating reform is no mean task, and critical to thesuccess of effective curriculum change is the involvementof skilled teachers. Special Educator Vidushi Chaudhry

points out, With professional development for teachersin India at such a nascent stage, there is a dearth ofopportunities for continued growth.

Cathedral, with its resources, extensively documentedexperience and commitment to improving teachingstandards, seems poised to fill that gap. Earlier this yearMrs. Isaacs announced that the time was right to sharesome of our best educational practices with other schoolsthrough teacher-training workshops, with the eventualaim of a full-fledged training wing in the future.

With Junior School being the hotbed for newpolicies, it was Headmistress Mrs. Ganguly who

encouraged the first teachers workshop on HandwritingRemediation. She explains how many Junior Schoolchildren are subjected to arduous remedial writingclasses in the uphill endeavour to undo incorrect learningat the initial stages. She adds, Besides poor attentionto detail, it is often an early start and expecting skillbeyond the childs natural development that causesincorrect learning. So in an attempt to get to the root ofthe problem, Cathedral invited several pre-primary educators from across Mumbaito a workshop on pre-writing skills andintervention, with Remedial Educator

Hema Doshi. Besides being trained incontemporary ways of teaching writing,nursery teachers were encouragedto avoid entrance exam pressure thatpushes young children beyondtheir limits. Te encouragingresponse from the 60 peopleat this first seminar-formatworkshop ensured thatthe School hasnt lookedback since.

On Location

Spelling workshops followed, with Mrs. Panditpointing out, Its not about memorising just these 20 or25 words Its a whole new way of generating spellingsand learning to put it all together. Its amazing what thekids can do in just Std. 2. eachers are now learningto actively involve children at three different stages ofreading in one class, or understanding how five minutesof grammar every day might actually provide better

results than less frequent longer lessons. With everyinnovation there are regular internal workshops withteachers, and key practices are being shared outside aswell. Te next few workshops will cover topics such aspronunciation and managing children with special needsin the school.

According to Mrs. Pandit, the teachers are excitedabout their own personal development and traininghappening on the job, and are especially motivatedonce they see strategies working in the classroom withpositive feedback from students. She acknowledges thatall change comes with anxiety, but once it takes place

and the teachers are enthused, Cathedral would have awhole new way of doing things.

raining teachers in innovative, child-centriceducational strategies is yet another way Cathedralreminds us, that at 150 years, this is an institution richly

steeped in history, yet remarkably contemporary inits eagerness to pioneer change in education.

Miel Sahgal(ISC 1989, Palmer)

2009 Te X-Cathedralit

Cathedral School shares its

best educational practices

Learning

on the job

Besides poor attention to detail,

it is often an early start and

expecting skill beyond the childs

natural development that causesincorrect learning.

Usha Pandit, Educational Consultant


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Rocky I:His first job was in a machine works establishmentuntil his cousin told Rocky of an opening in the Physicsdepartment at Cathedral School. Tus, 43 years ago,in 1967 Rocky joined the school where he remains thebackbone of the Senior School Physics laboratory. Inthis time, he has seen numerous students pass throughthe corridors of School and pass out into a challengingworld; many Principals (Rev Ridding, Mrs Cabral, MrKuruvilla Jacob, Col Simeon, Mr Shaw and presently Mrs

Isaacs) and Physics department heads (Mr Hawkey, ColBenedict, Mr Nagia, presently Mrs Samuel) have comeand gone too.

Rocky II:In 1970 Rocky Rodricks was assigned the additionalresponsibility of ringing the school bell. First anotherguy used to ring the bell, but for the last 40 years I havebeen doing it, says Rocky as he busily arranges apparatusand materials for the next class in the Physics lab whichnow occupies a larger, better-lit and arranged space acrossthe quad. An old wall clock and his wrist watch help Rocky

keep time and ensure he rings the brass bell at the correctmoment to mark the end of a period or the start of abreak.Its the same old bell. Tey tried an electronic bellsome time ago, but it made a different noise which did notwork, so we went back to the old bell which sounds like achurch or temple bell, explains Rocky.

Rocky III:In 1989, Rocky married Leena. I got married late becauseI was looking after the rest of the family, says Rocky. TeRodricks family -- daughter Fazel, 19, is an Arts studentat Chetna College, Bandra -- continues to live in Andheri.

oday, when the physics teacher is absent, Rocky proudlyproclaims that he supervises the practicals. I know allthe experiments, he says. Some students call me sir. Igive respect, so I get respect. Its nice when ex-studentscall. Some call me abroad to join them; I say OK to all ofthem. Mostly they dont call again. But I give respect toeveryone. I like my job, my home everybody is good tome, smiles Rocky.

Rocky IV:I recall my classmates harassing Rocky to ring thebell early sometimes, some even offering to ring it for

Rocky Bell-boaWithin the many changes in School, it

is comforting to find that Rocky still

rings the school bell

him, but he alwaysmaintained a goodhumour about it,handling the mischiefof teenagers with

sensitive sternness.Tings are a littledifferent now. Withchanging times, Rockytoo has adapted hismethods. Peopleare scared of me nowbecause I keep a PinkCard with me andthreaten the childrenthat they will not beable to attend lab

practicals for one weekif they are naughty.And if they are verybadly behaved, I shoutat them and tell themthey are going to spoiltheir future.

Rocky V:Ask him how much School has changed in the last fourdecades and he says, Previously there were differentsystems; children had respect for teachers. Now children

are very naughty. Te new generation is very smart. Butthe parents and teachers are very good. Come hail orshine, the bell must ring, two strokes every half hour, along bell to signify lunch and breaks, another short bell at2.30 p.m. and a final long bell at 2.35 p.m. At 3.40 p.m.,Rocky ends his day which begins at 7.20 a.m.

Rocky 2009:Tough the school closes for vacations, Rocky doesnttake long leave. I work Monday to Saturday. On SaturdayI clean the water coolers. We have to seal them after somestudents once poured a full bottle of Crocin into the

cooler and another time someone threw shoes into theopen cooler. After that Mrs. Isaacs insisted that all thecoolers be locked. During the school holidays, he keepshimself busy checking apparatus, repairing equipment ifrequired and undertaking maintenance.

Hes 58 now and sees retirement knocking on his door.Ask him about his plans for the future and he mentions ahouse in Goa and then cuts the conversation short.

It is 11.20 a.m., end of the period and time to ringthe bell.



Photo:RayomandJ.

Patell

On Location


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Shiamak

Davar

Sitting in a packedauditorium, I was deafenedby the resounding cheer,

Shia---mak, bouncing off thewalls and ceiling, reverberating asit intensified. As soon as Shiamakbegan speaking, I knew why he wasso admired and adored. Not onlyis he an entertainer par excellenceand a great dancer and singer, buthe genuinely loves kids and is an

incredible motivator.My first memory of Shiamak

was of him and his pals acutelyconscious of wearing long trousersfor the first time, running aroundthe senior school, seemingly in awe,yet always mischievous and up topranks and now here he was, holdingan audience of kids in the palm ofhis hands.

I was instantly charmed. He isa star, yet he has no hang-ups, no

attitude, no BS. He calls Hrithikand Shahid my boys (shades ofMr. Lewis?) he deals with politicalbigwigs and corporate honchos. Heheads and runs virtually a dance

empire, the world at his feet, butthere is no trace of any of this.He is just a boy, reminiscing andremembering, opening his heart.

Shiamak was not always happy

in school. He was and is different.Whereas now the performingspace celebrates that difference, atthat awkward school boy stage thedifference was mocked and jeeredat! Tere were days when he wasafraid to go to school, and he beganfooling around, acting silly to coverhis pain and confusion. Was it wrongto be passionate about music andperforming? He withdrew behind aclowns mask and retreated into his

music spending many lonely hoursat the piano. He became attention-seeking and almost disruptive.Sensitive and misunderstood,Shiamak turned inward tospirituality, to Sai Baba of Shirdi, andhe gradually learnt to accept and livewith himself.

No longer defensive, he beganenjoying school, and the 9th through11th were very different from theyears that went before. He made

close friends, began excelling inathletics and became School GymCaptain. Trough this entire periodhe affirms, he always had the supportof his teachers.

He remembers all his teachersvery affectionately, particularly,Ms. Cheriyan, Ms. Bhesania, Ms.Saldanha and Ms. Kapoor. Helearnt a lot from Mr. Lobo, whohad occasion to shout at him andhas nothing but high praise for Ms.Hallegua, even though she threw himout of class. He supported Mr. Pandeand played tricks on Mr. Patki.

Shiamak acknowledges that hewas a rebel. He could not understandthen or now, why it is so importantto be aggressive, to compete, topush somebody down in order to

rise yourself. Perhaps this is whatprompted him to work with children,who need special handling; heknows what it is like to struggle.He turned all his disadvantagesinto advantages, and utilised hisresources and talents to teach.

Trough his institute, Shiamakreaches out annually to over 50,000dance enthusiasts across, India,

Australia, Canada and the UAE. Hehas changed the popular notion

that dance is frivolous and madedance education not only availableand acceptable but also desirable.Shiamak truly believes that eachindividual has a dancer in his souland he has taken it upon himself torelease that dancer! He says that ifyou have the will, you will alwaystriumph and he has managed toinfect all his trainers and employeeswith the same zeal and enthusiasm.

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Shiamak has been commissionedto perform before world audiencesat prestigious events. He haschoreographed for Bollywoodblockbusters, recorded his own

albums and has staged spectacularextravaganzas but it is the impact hehas had on the individual that hasreally impressed.

Trough dance, Shiamaks award-winning Victory Arts Foundation(VAF), empowers children who areunderprivileged, vulnerable to HIV/

AIDS or with special needs. VAFenriches their lives and instills inthem a strong sense of self-beliefand confidence. Shiamak has also

enabled his students by giving themenormous exposure. Performing onstage they truly represent his beliefin them and celebrate their ownbelief in themselves.

Interestingly enough, his firstlove was never dancing. He wasand is essentially a musician and aperformer, recognised and praisedas a brilliant actor by Mrs. Jefferiesin school. Dancing, he says, almosthappened to him by mistake!

While attending voice and singingworkshops in London he walkedinto a dance class and knew what hemust do.

He came back to India to takeup the challenge of teaching dance.

Although, he was misunderstood,labelled effeminate and sniggeredat, he was undaunted. Alreadyspiritually strong, Shiamak wasfurther empowered by KhorshedBhavnagri,his spiritual advisor andher book, Laws of the Spirit World.Shiamak is the pioneer of themodern dance movement in India.He is a teacher, bringing joy to hisstudents. He is a performer, movingacross the stage of life, creatingmagic. Dance is his oxygen, his life-giver. He is grateful to God for allthat he is and so are we.

Ragini (Kochar) Ghose(ISC 1972, Savage)

elevision actress and one of the leadperformers in the highly-acclaimed playTe Vagina Monologues,Sonali Sachdeva (neeMahimtura) has consistently proven herselfto be a talented and versatile performer.Te pretty Sonali, who drinks her tea witha vivacious smile and effervescent chatter,explains that acting was never her first choice.She was a respected orthodontist, has workedin event management and film production anddanced professionally in stage shows before theacting bug finally caught hold.

Te Wilsonite who participated in almostevery school activity from badminton to

swimming, from drama to elocution, says itwas Cathedral (ICSE 1987) which gave her thefoundation to develop her talents and interests.Te school really taught me how to be a jack ofall trades. It gave me exposure to so many things.Tis multifaceted education allowed Sonali topursue her passions while preparing for a careerin dentistry.

Born in Mumbai to parents who were both doctors, a career in medicineseemed like the natural option at the time. It just seemed like a convenientprofession, I knew Id have hours that I could choose. But I didnt give upother things for it. During her time at dentistry school, Sonali danced inShiamak Davars troupe and performed at various national events like theopening of the Asian rack and Field Championships in Delhi in 1989. It wasalso while in dentistry school that Sonali met her future husband and, aftergraduation, the couple moved to Delhi to set up their practice.

But four years in, an opportunity to enroll in a six month-long actingcourse by Barry John (famous for being Shah Rukh Khans teacher) wasirresistible. I always wanted to be an actor; I just didnt know where to begin,says Sonali. But at the end of the course, Barry was really encouraging thatI take up acting full time. And Ive always gone against the tide. So she quitdentistry and moved to Mumbai with her husband Hemant where she signedup for more acting classes. I had a blast. Te classes were so filmy and soridiculous it was just great, she smiles.

Te classes led to roles, and before she knew it Sonali was offered a partin Te Vagina Monologues.Initially, it was tough. It isnt an easy choice youmake, and you wonder if youre on the right path, especially when you aresuffering financially. But I loved acting too much it was fantastic being up onthat stage. Her passion for her work paid off. Te Vagina Monologues landedher a role in Aamir Khans film aare Zameen Parand eventually the partthat made her a household name: Dr Shilpa Takkar in Star Plus Baa BahuAur Baby.Currently, the actress is working in a successful childrens serialon the Disney Channel, called Kya Mast Hai Life.If Sonalis achievements areanything to go by, she wont need to do much acting for this role.

Shloka Nath(ISC 2002, Wilson)

Going against the tide

Changing Tracks



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Looking back,

looking forward

Middle age is a good vantage point from which tolook back and to look ahead. For me it has beena most rewarding journey into the world of poor

women workers in the informal economy of our country-their hopes, their dreams and their immense strengthsand insights on all aspects of life and living.

I realise, however, that this journey began much earlier at our school actually. As a mother, I now understandhow important the solid foundation at our school hasbeen. Te academic part, of course, and the good qualityeducation we all have been so fortunate to have. Butperhaps more importantly, the values shared with usat school of respecting all, upholding the diversityand plurality of our traditions and multiple cultures, ofquestioning and of looking beyond the classroom.

At school, I was exposed to those much less privileged

than we all are. We played with children at the NarimanPoint slums, now gleaming towers of glass and steel, andunderstood what it meant when a construction worker-mother did not have the money to care for her sick child.We understood early at St. Anthonys Orphanage inByculla that deprivation meant no one gave you the foodand care you need as a young child.

Looking back, I realise that these early experiencessteeled my resolve to put my education to the service ofothers. I became increasingly aware that we lived in anunfair world that had to be changed. I know it was thesame for my dear friend, Sanjoy Ghose. We often recalled,

years later, how the Interact Club at school put us on themost unexpected courses in our lives.

Te role of our teachers, especially Miss Hallegua, inthis process was critical. I was happy to tell her so when afew years ago, she visited us at SEWA. As we travelled inthe impoverished villages of agariyas, salt workers of theLittle Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, we talked about of thoseearly forays into the world of the poor in Mumbai.

Te Self-Employed Womens Association (SEWA)which I joined 25 years ago, has easily been the mostlife-changing experience of all. Elaben Bhatts (SEWAsFounder) appointment letter to me reads: Welcome to

SEWA. I hope you enjoy it here. Tat was it. And therewas no looking back for me!

Again, I lucked out! I found a wonderful mentor gentle yet firm, quiet of voice but loud in hercondemnation of all the injustices that had been makingmy blood boil increasingly over the years. She asked meto just go and be with the women to listen, to learn andto wear khadi.

Armed with American degrees, I was raring to go.Te lively street vendors of Shankarbhuvan slum,a community which still exists on the banks of theSabarmati river, quickly put me in my place. Oh-ho!

What will this little thing teach us? She will be likeeveryone else come for a short while and then leave.Who will stick around these parts? Tey wove theirmagic around me and so I stuck around. For the firstsix months, I attempted to understand their world. Webecame friends. But before that, I had to learngarbaandGujarati, and to relish the gunpowder lasan ni chatnithataccompanied every hot rotla. Tey became my friends forlife. Even now, when I need re-charging, I return to myfriends in Shankarbhuvan who set me right with theirphilosophical acceptance of the ebbs and flows of life.

What I gained from these women, and the thousands

of others at SEWA, as well as fellow travellers in differentorganisations all over the world, is a sense of solidarityand shared purpose to build a just and equitable world.

From Shankarbhuvan, life at SEWA unfolded fast. Iwas initially the Coordinator of our health team with mynew Shankarbhuvan friends as the first of our now 500health workers/barefoot doctors. We developed a healthcooperative together, providing primary health care andhealth education to our members and their families. Tishas grown into an all-Gujarat cooperative, financiallysustainable and run by the women themselves.

Soon I was part of SEWAs Core eam and much to my

Mirai (left) with board members of SEWAs Lok Swasthya Health

Workers Cooperative

Out of the Box

Dedicated social entrepreneur

Mirai Chatterjee recounts her

early experiences with social

service and her hopes for a more

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Out of the Box

GAIA: A response to climate changed

As we all are aware, we now live in a world ofchanged climate. Since Independence, India hasdestroyed almost half its forest cover, pillaged

natural resources and polluted rivers and skies all in thename of progress and prosperity. But while we can survivewithout petrol and electricity, try living for one singleday without water! And as per the IPCCs latest report onclimate change, thats exactly where India is headed. Withthe Himalayan glaciers retreating and the south-westerly

monsoons already becoming unpredictable and sparse,the Indian subcontinent potentially faces one of the moredire consequences of climate change, the loss of most ofits fresh water sources.

We must face this problem by protecting naturalecosystems, and the best investment for the futureis for the government, corporate groups and privatecommunities alike to protect our remaining natural forest.

Many of you may be wondering how can I make adifference? What can I do in my busy schedule to helpreverse the effect of climatic change? wo years ago myown friends were asking the same questions, and with

no outlet to quantify our desire, we started the GaiaConservation Foundation.

Te Gaia Conservation Foundation is a Not for Profitorganisation formed by three Mumbai based natureenthusiasts - Romil Parikh (ICSE 1998, Savage), AgastyaChopra and Vikram Gupta purely out of a passion forthe natural environment and its wildlife. Te companywas formed as a response to Climate Changed.

We have picked the conservation of the Sanjay GandhiNational Park (SGNP) as our pilot project, acknowledgingthat it is a natural wonder and resource Mumbaikars

cannot affordto lose. Spreadover 107 squarekm. it is thelargest nationalpark located ina populous area(Central Parkin Manhattanis three squarekms). It houses28 leopards and over 1500 other species including barkingdeer, langurs and fresh water crocodiles. It also holdsthe ulsi and Vihar lakes which provide our city withdrinking water.

Tis people-driven project intends to get Mumbaikarsto visit the park, plant their own saplings in the forestand then be witness to the change brought about by theirefforts. We aim to restore 100 hectares of degraded forestland back to its pristine glory using scientific methods

provided by our partners, Te Bombay Natural HistorySociety. Once people experience the wonders of the SGNP,we believe that they will begin to fall in love with theforest and become advocates for its protection.

Romil Parikh

(ICSE 1998, Savage)

Gaia organises nature walks through SGNP, fundraising concerts,

educational events and tree-planting drives across Mumbai for individuals,

schools, colleges and corporates. Individuals can also sponsor trees. Contact:

[email protected] or twitter - gaiamumbai or join the facebook

group gaia conservation foundation.

surprise, when Elaben stepped asideto make way for younger leaders, Ifound myself as the General Secretaryof SEWA. It was a truly enrichingexperience. Now the baton has been

passed to the next generation forthe first time a workers daughter,Jyotiben, a close colleague, is ourGeneral Secretary.

Currently, I am working on health,child care and insurance for SEWAmembers. Our all-India insurancecooperative has just been registeredand we are committed to get it upand running.

Looking ahead, there is so much


more to do! We are increasingly ina world of great divides. Te poorwho contribute so significantly, andespecially women, hardly get a lookin. SEWA members dream, like we

all do, of a better future for theirchildren. Tey work hard, take loansand save to get the books they needand pay their tuition. Teir livesdont get easier, although we do haveeach other at SEWA for support andencouragement. It is still an unfairworld, and I am still so outraged!

Te issues that drew me into thiswork in the first place continue tokeep me on my toes. So many of our

people are still without the basics ofroti-kapda-makaan, health care andeducation. At a time in India whenwe can finally afford to do better, onthese, there are still huge gaps.

A few days before my writing this,Gandhi Jayanti was celebrated. AtSEWA we continue to be inspired byhis thought and action. Each year were-commit ourselves to completinghis mission of Doosri Azadi, freedomfrom want and despair and towards aworld of dignity and justice for all.

Mirai Chatterjee (1975, Palmer) isCoordinator of Social Security at SEWA.


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She was born in 1966 and since then the Amul

girl has been nurtured by father SylvesterdaCunha followed by son Rahul. From 1993,

Rahul has brainstormed with his team at daCunhaCommunications on a weekly basis to create topical,funny and iconic Amul butter hoardings, one of thelongest-running and most successful Indian advertisingcampaigns.

Every Monday morning Rahul and his team ofa writer and a cartoonist discuss the biggest newsstories and talking points of the week. Tere are nomandatories except that the Amul girl has to featurein the artwork in some avatar, says her guardianRahul. Te catchy baseline Utterly Butterly Deliciouswas coined by Rahuls father, the Amul girl created byEustace Fernandes. We always aim to come up withlines that mean something, adds Rahul. What he doesnot mention is the wit and satire also associated withthe hoardings we see dotted around Mumbai and thecountry, like Ear today, gone tomorrow! when boxerMike yson bit Evander Holyfields ear or Pow Bhajjiwhen Harbhajan Singh sing slapped Sreesanth onthe pitch.

After leaving Cathedral, Rahul studied at St. Xaviers

College and XIC. He graduated wishing to pursue publicservice advertising. Joining the family enterprise was

A toast to the Amul girlRahul daCunha on his bread and butter

never the obvious choice but it is what he wandered

towards, and remains involved with even today. TeAmul campaign is his baby and one he thoroughlyenjoys, even if it means creating four different conceptsin one week in order to be relevant in all zones across thecountry. A Bandra-Worli sea link idea is only relevantin Mumbai while a Quick Gun Murugun movie hoardinghas national relevance, says Rahul who is currentlyputting together a book on the Amul campaign and itsevolution.

From movie stars to cricketers, politicians and Vchannels, no one is spared the Amul girls wit andpenchant for puns. Indians dont have a sense ofhumour, so we have to be a little careful of whose toeswe are treading on. In terms of currency, one cant helpbut note that the Amul girl seems to have succumbedto peer group pressure and the size zero fad. Yes, shewas fatter earlier and has pared down a bit, concedesRahul who picks the hoarding they did right after the26thof November Mumbai terror attacks as one of theones he is most proud of. But my personal favouritewas at the time of the renaming of V. Te little girl wasshown looking at V station and the line read Victoriaerminated. We also get a lot of our ideas from pop

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Our planet is in a state of crisis. Te issues of globalwarming and climate change are well known.While we debate scenarios such as the melting

of the polar ice caps, whether the next World Wars willbe water wars, and the future flooding and drowning ofcoastal habitats, we are already experiencing extremeweather events, terrible storms and floods, and thefrequent breaching of 500 year probability scenarios.

In July 2005, Mumbai saw the devastation causedby 944 mm. of rain in 24 hours. As a Mumbaikar, witheach passing day, I found I was becoming increasinglyconcerned about environmental issues and theirrepurcussions. It was this sense of unease that drew

me to revisit the work on the Mississippi by my friendsAnuradha Mathur (ICSE 1976, Barham) and Dr. Dilip daCunha, Professors of Architecture at the University ofPennsylvanias School of Design.

Teir exhibition, Mississippi Horizons: Mapping aShifting errain, highlighted how interference withthe natural flow of waterways could lead to disastrousconsequences. In August 2005, the storm water surgeafter hurricane Katrina moved inland, nearly wiping outNew Orleans.

Interestingly, I saw a parallel with what Mumbaihad experienced in July 2005. Was the river Mithi a

contributory factor in the devastating floods that broughtthe city of Mumbai to a standstill? Perhaps we needed toexamine the significance of the Mithi in Mumbai.

With this objective, I invited Anuradha and Dilip tocome to Mumbai and apply their unique expertise toanalysing Mumbais periodic floods during the monsoons.Gradually the project grew in proportions. From aninitial examinations it became a detailed study with analtogether new approach and innovative solutions.

For instance, Government efforts to prevent a repeatof the 2005 floods have centred on making the Mithi amore efficient storm water drain. While this is necessary,

we have seen that widening and deepening river channelsand raising embankments are incomplete responsesthat carry high risks, as was seen in the aftermath ofHurricane Katrina. New Orleans flooded because thelevees were unable to withstand the storm water surgeand not because the water flowed over the levees.

Because Mumbai is in an estuary, when it is high tide,or the tide is coming in, the incoming surge does notallow the storm water drainage, which empties throughthe Mithi into the sea, to operate efficiently. Te stormwater, instead of flowing out quickly, is dominated by thetidal flows coming in. Consequently, with a confluence

of high tide and even moderate rainfall, there is a highprobability of flooding.

Anuradha and Dilip, authors of SOAK, bring a newperspective to the issue of alleviating floods in Mumbai.Teir approach is not one of flood control, but ofaccommodation. As it is the nature of rivers to flood andmeander, it is not always possible to contain and directthe flow of a river, so we must allow for overflows andspills into holding areas.

SOAK argues that Mumbai is in an estuary rather thanan island or islands in the sea. In trying to capture anddefine territory, surveyors in a colonial era articulatedboundaries on the land, and between land and water,

where such boundaries cannot really be held given thefree and cyclical flows of monsoon and sea in an estuary.Te exhibition uncovers the dangerous effects of freezingand controlling the fluid nature of an estuary, which hasled to the marginalisation and destruction of functionallandscapes such as mangroves, beaches, talaos, terracedfields of palms, and shifting saline and fresh watergradients of harbours and creeks which actually made theland resilient to floods.

Conventional maps, by taking a two-dimensionalapproach sidelined the intricate and permeatingrelationship between the land and water, including the

movements in time of tides and seasons.SOAK is an important template that has international

relevance in the debate on global warming and climatechange. It suggests that we resolve the problem offlooding not by enforcing lines but by transformingMumbai into a place that absorbs and accommodates themonsoon and sea.

Kavita Khanna

(ICSE 1976, Palmer)

Kavita Khanna is Director of SOAK. She and Anuradha Mathur met

in 1974 at Cathedral and have been friends ever since.


Out of the Box

SOAK in the cityAn exhibition takes a new look at Mumbais terrain


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A tryst with destiny

he legendary Alyque Padamsee -- the first word in Indianadvertising, the last word in Indian theatre. Now themonumental task of discussing his Cathedral life had fallen

on me. Tree questions hit me as I approached the lions den(Alyque actually lives in a lions den, its a conventional humanhouse with two statues, which may or may not be relatives, andone poster of a frolicking feline):1. Would Alyque be in a good mood?2. Would he remember his halcyon days?

3. Did he keep any dangerous weapons in his house?Te door was opened by a man in a purple suit. He was clearly theRiddler from the Batman series. However, on closer inspectionI was informed, in third person, that the purple suit containedthe iconic Alyque himself. We settled down and started ourconversation.

CB: Alyque first give us your school years.AP:Yes, I left a public boarding school and joined Cathedral in1942. I graduated in 1947 from the ninth standard.

CB: Let me understand this you graduated from schoolwithout doing your tenth standard. Did you take special

er, permission?AP: No, in our time school was only till the ninth standard, but itdoesnt look like you, Cyrus, got anywhere close to that!

CB: Sorry please go onAP:It was a boys school only, which meant no girls. We hadBritish kids, Anglo-Indians, Jews and a few Parsees in addition tolots and lots of Hindus and some Muslims. Tis was the mix at thattime. Lets see, there were the Ley brothers Buster, Steven, revor,the Duthies, Mervyn, Peter and Jeffery. Everybody got on just finein school. Tere was no discrimination even during the BritishRaj. Te Bombay Gym was a different story though. Te Brits and

Reflections


Padmashree Alyque Padamsee graduatedfrom School a few months before Indianindependence in 1947. Fifty two yearslater, Padamsee (Savage) is CEO, APAdvertising and has been referred to asthe brand father of Indian advertisingand guru of English Theatre in India.The former Chief Executive of LintasIndia and Regional Coordinator of Lintas

South Asia, Padamsee is associated withmemorable ad campaigns like Lalitajifor Surf, Cherry Charlie for CherryBlossom shoe polish, the MRF Muscle,the Liril girl in the waterfall and HamaraBajaj. His theatre productions includeEvita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Tughlaq andOthello.He was conferred the LifetimeAchievement Award for theatre by theSangeet Natak Akademi and is currentlydirecting Unspoken Dialogues.He was seenas Mohammad Ali Jinnah in Sir Richard

Attenboroughs film Gandhi and is the onlyIndian to be voted into the InternationalClio Hall of Fame. He is also committedto social organisations like Citizens forJustice and Peace, the Citizens ActionGroup and is on the advisory council ofthe Indian Institute of Technology (IITMumbai). Author ofA Double Life, a bookon advertising, Padamsee reminisceswithCyrus Broacha about his days inCathedral School.


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Anglo-Indians were better built and excelled at rugby,boxing and hockey but most of them were duffers. I wasgood, but the living brain, the brain personified, thebrain-de-la-brain was a chap called Jal Dastur. Yes, Jalwas the brain and Vernon odd the brawn.

CB: And where did Alyque fall?AP:I leaned more towards the brain. For the morephysical sports, we Indian boys carried letters from ourmothers excusingus on medicalgrounds.

CB: Youll beproud to knowthat practicestill continuestoday.AP:Yes. JangooDubash and Iwere the tabletennis lunatics.Wed play tilleight or nineat night, some

times alone,simultaneouslyon both sides ofthe table.(At this point I check Alyques pulse to see if hes lying,he immediately points to a crossbow hanging on the wall.I desist.)AP:But my fondest memory is chemistry class. Yousee five girls from the girls school would join us forthe chemistry lesson. Tey were all knockouts. IfLaila Wadia entered the room, Id jump up and down

like a rampaging pony. If Zarine Wadia looked at us,even McKenzie, the ladies man, would faint. We wereawkward around the ladies. Oh, and the socials -- myGod! Wed all stand in a row, like eggs, and ask the girlsfor a dance with our eyes fixed to the floor. Te ladyteachers would watch and measure the distance betweenthe boy and girl constantly.

CB: To be fair it sounds like a group activity.AP:Jangoo Dubash, Coover Gazdar and I started the

school newspaper. It was a monthly thing called OurJournal. Tats right, I remember now they started it,

and I was the delivery boy! We also started quad footer football played in the quadrangle with a tennis ball. Oh,and lets not forget the Dramatics Club. Farrokh Mehtaand I put on Te Fumed Oakabout a convict who goesto sleep.

CB: What about the teachers?AP:Among the teachers there was C.J. Oliver, EricMahar, the French teacher Monsieur Gremont. Yet the

one I rememberthe most was Mr.Bruce. He wasour Principal - a

Scot with coldblue eyes andginger hair. Hehad a collectionof 34 canes.Bruce wouldtiptoe around theschool like a spy,wearing rubber-soled shoes, sohe couldnt bedetected. Hedthen creep upon any errant

boys and whisk them off for a caning. Our Bruce wouldthen let you choose your own cane. Soloo Batliboihad the unique distinction of trying out the entirecane collection.

CB: Can you share your most vivid memory ofschool?AP: My best friend Robin Omer and I at the Cooperagegrounds watching Diana Jardine doing the high jump.She wore extremely short shorts.

As I prepared to leave, AP recalled: In 1997 the classof 47 had a Golden Jubilee reunion in my house. Dontforget to print that.

Unfortunately my question as to whether Diana Jardinestill wore extremely short shorts fell on deaf ears as thedoor had been closed.

Cyrus Broacha(Wilson ICSE 1988)

Cyrus Broacha is a writer, V presenter, stand-up comedian andactor, and can usually be found most evenings, at the Oval Maidan

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Best Wishes

From


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Back to the future

As Avil went touring round the great city he was surprisedto see how different it had become.

Te land between Colaba Reclamation and Marine Drivehad been reclaimed, and an enormous ice-rink had beenbuilt there. Te rest of that land was dotted over with pre-fabricated cottages, which had been manufactured, not inAmerica, but in a modern housing factory in Bhandup, in thesuburbs of Bombay.

Avil blinked his eyes when he saw Marine Drive, for,

instead of the ordinary buildings, there stood tall buildings,not unlike skyscrapers. Te Fort was studded over withthese huge buildings which towered above the scene likehuge mastodons. At Flora Fountain an overhead bridge wasbuilt for people to walk on. Hence there were no traffic jamsas before, and the hooting of horns could be heard once ina while.

*****Although Avil was very much impressed by all these

sights, he was hungry and so he went to his old-timefavourite restaurant, Bombellis. Before, this restaurantwas usually empty, but now it was crowded with men and

women who were walking to and fro at a counter, placingtheir annas in slots and serving themselves. Tere werelittle locker-like drawers on which were written ChickenSandwiches, Mutton Roast, and so on. Avil placed aneight-anna bit in a slot and beholdout came a leg of roastduck with fried chips and pickled greens! Tis was anautomat, and in Bombay there were at least six automats atthat time.

*****After a week of looking at these exciting things, Avil

wished to return to his own home and so he once more satin the rocket-ship and left the Bombay of 2001 amidstcheering crowds.

After what seemed hours and hours he landed at theobservatory and related his adventures to the aged scientistswho listened eagerly to the success of their experiment. Avilwent home, but his thoughts were far away, in the Bombayof 2001.

Fifty Eight years later,Dr. Hakim and ISC2001 graduate GautamShewakramani (Savage)talk about how different

Mumbai in 2001 was fromher imagination.

GS: What was your initial

reaction when you read

this essay almost 60

years after you wrote it?

PH:I had no recollection of

writing this! Im surprised

that lots of things that I

mentioned have happened

the reclamation,

skyscrapers, flyovers,

helipads, etc. Im a positive thinker and an optimist, and

that shows in this essay. I have this picture of a Utopia

- and the Bombay that Ive described is that Utopia;

what I would have liked to envision for Bombay 50

years from then. Another thing thats interesting is that

my grandson, currently in Cathedral, always chooses

to write about science fiction and the future when he

writes essays. I can see where he gets that from now.

GS: Where did you get your ideas from?

PH:As children, we were not exposed to what life in thewest was, except through movies. So the concept of big

roads, escalators, etc. in my essay must have come from

movies. Te automat machine I referred to was none

other than a vending machine, and I remember that the

first one I saw in Bombay was at Metro cinema, just after

Coke had first been introduced in India.

GS:You mentioned your favourite restaurant in the

essay whats your favorite restaurant today?

PH:Tat restaurant, Bombellis at Breach Candy was

where Amarsons is today. It had an open-air area, wheremany young people would stop by for coffees and cakes.

It was owned by a Swedish lady called Mrs Bombelli.

Te other branch was at Churchgate, opposite Gaylord,

which I would consider my favorite restaurant today.


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Dr. Piloo Hakim nee Cooper(1951, Savage) wroteBombay in 2001 in the school magazine in 1951 when

she was in std 11. Here are some excerpts from thestory about Avil, a brave, young time traveller whojourneys 50 years into the future:

Piloo Hakim nee Cooper in 1951

Dr. Piloo Hakim is an EN specialist practicing in Mumbai. She is currently Professor Emeritus at Sir JJ Government Hospital and Grant

Medical College and Consultant at Saifee, Masina and Parsi General Hospitals. She is an Honorary Consultant EN to the Indian Cancer

Society, Cancer Aid Association, and Cancer Aid and Research Foundation. She was a Professor and Head of Department at JJ Hospital for

over 30 years and was recently awarded a lifetime achievement award from the Cancer Aid and Research Foundation.


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Parents can imbue absolutetrust and confidence in a seven

year-old child. Tis, I believe,was my feeling when I enteredthe imposing Cathedral and JohnConnon School building clutchingmy mothers hand. Tat morning, Iwas about to write my test papersthat would qualify me for admissioninto the School. I remember thelarge, airy classroom and the desksin neat rows, the basic paradigms ofa good school. Hitherto, we had saton benches at a large community

table which we used when writing.Little did I realise at that time,that this structure completed in1881, designed by John Adams,would be my alma mater. Tis andthe Girls School on Napier Road,again designed by John Adamsin 1889, was a part of the majorurban development in Bombayand a revival of the Gothic style ofarchitecture.

After getting admission, mymother and I met Miss Dorothy

King, the Principal of the GirlsSchool. I vividly remember thistall, lithe and charming lady with awinsome smile.

Four girls Nargis Mody, ArmaityMody, Indira Subramanyam andI were admitted from our formerschool. Nargis, Armaity and myselfwere put in Orange House and Indirain Green House. o this day, theHouse that one belonged to serves toidentify a face!

Kindness and caringYears rolled by and I remember Miss.Blanche, who later became Mrs.Day, was responsible for inculcatinga love of History and EnglishLiterature in me. Mrs. Nissen, ourHouse Mistress, was strict but agood teacher. However, beneath thatunrelenting demeanour there was astreak of kindness and caring. She

would stay behind till six p.m., aftersports practice at the Brabourne

Stadium, when my father would pickme up after work. On one occasion,she took me to his office on QueensRoad and waited; realising that hismeeting would extend beyond mycapacity for patience, she took meto her house which was close by andI waited there. Tat was my firstmeeting with her son Foy Nissen.Many years later he would helpme with the glossary of my bookon Bombay.

Memorable eventsSchool was exciting, especiallyorganising our dance shows for theconcert. Nalini Nair, who learntKathakali, Sadhana Shah who learntManipuri, and I learning BharatNatyam, were given a free handchoreographing our dance item.

Country dancing competitions,gym, art with Lady emple,

Vignettes

academicof an

traveller

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Dr. Vijaya

Gupchup (1954,Orange House)

reminiscesabout her long

associationwith Cathedralas a student,

teacher,

Headmistress,parent,grandparentand historian



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singing with Mr. Velu andwinning the Inter-School SingingCompetition at the CowasjiJehangir Hall, where incidentallywe had our Speech Day, were

memorable events. Every monthduring Assembly, the Honours Listwith House Marks would be readout. Getting Honours and a HouseMark for gym was something to besought after.

he apogee came when thePrefects Badge was pinned on bythe Principal on the stage. In thosedays House Captains were decidedby the staff and Vice-Captains wereelected by the students, as indeed

I was. Reading at Prayers wasanother stimulant.

A new chapter beginsOnce in a while, a point of zenith isfollowed by nadir, and this is whathappened when our immediateseniors received their SeniorCambridge results. Many of thegirls had failed the examination bydefault of choosing incorrect subjectgroups. Te school authorities at

once sent out a circular in Junesaying that they were not responsibleif students had chosen wronggroupings. My mothers primaryconcern was whether I would be ableto get into college with the subjectsthat I had chosen without properguidance. College authorities wouldhave refused to admit me with thesubjects that I had chosen. Nearly15 girls, I believe, left the schooland joined SSC schools so that they

could appear for the State Boardexamination that same academicyear. Although this phase with theCathedral School as a student endedrather abruptly, I was to have a longinteraction with my alma mater inthe years to come.

Back to schoolWhile my children were in school,Mrs. Uma Banerjee offered me a job

in the Infant School. I was hesitantat first, never having pursued acareer, but joined nevertheless, asa eachers Aide. I enjoyed teachingand especially being with the

children. However, I realised thatmy prospects were limited and leftschool to do my B.Ed. My mother-in-law and parents took turns lookingafter the children and I completedmy B.Ed. from St. Xaviers Instituteof Education. I applied for a teacherspost. In 1979 I got a job in the InfantSchool as a eachers Aide again.

Six months later I was Classeacher of Standard II. I worked inthat capacity till 1992.

Exposure to Indian cultureIn 1992, I became Headmistress ofthe Cathedral Infant School duringthe Principalship of Mr. DesmondShaw. Every moment of my careerfrom 1992-1998 was exhilarating.I introduced the Project Method ofteaching which culminated in anannual Open Day.

I trod into general subjects ofenvironmental concern like Air and

Water. I got the teachers motivatedand involved in these innovativetopics by discussing detailed projectoutlines with them. I felt thatexposure to Indian culture had to bean integral part of the curriculum.I took up projects like Festivals ofIndia, and Indigenous oys. It keptthe children enthused for the bestpart of the year.

Widening horizonsA comprehensive scheme wasbrought into being to encompassthe project to relate it to subjectslike English Language andReading, Mathematics, Social andEnvironmental Studies, Scienceand the Performing Arts. Eachproject climaxed with every childentertaining an audience, be ita dance-ballet, a musical or a

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pageant in verse. Outings with anenvironmental bias with games andnature-walks were introduced.

Tese activities were possiblebecause I had the support of

Mrs. Meera Isaacs who succeededMr. Shaw as Principal. From the veryinception of her career, she gave methe leeway to pursue my ideas. Tecredit of allowing me to introduceprinted writing books conceived byMrs. Ketaki Mazumdar and myselfgoes to her. It saved the teachersthe drudgery of setting six writingbooks for each child; what is more,it helped the children perfect theirwriting skills.

Leaving school after retirementwas heartbreaking but Mr. .Tomas, the Chairman of our Boardof Governors, came to my rescue. Heasked me to write the history of theSt. Tomas Cathedral the genesisof our school. Te six years that Itook to write the research book gaveme immense pleasure. In a sense, itis a dream fulfilled -- a tribute to myalma mater.

Still connectedI continue to be connected to theschool. My granddaughters, Ananyaand Alekha, study in the Junior andPre-primary sections. My role asbackstage helper is not altogetherinconsequential. Occasionally Imuster courage to help Ananya witha piece of creative writing, or givean informal talk in Alekhas school.Interacting with children keeps one

young at heart and provides a futureto look forward to, and I have beenfortunate in this regard.

In expressing my feelings I wouldlike to alter the last line of PercyBysshe Shelley and say: Te desireof the moth for the star,Of thenight for the morrow. Te devotionof something afar. For a brightertomorrow.


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Off the Shelf

Saturday

Night

Social


Amit Chaudhuri is a novelist (oneof his generations best writers:The Guardian), a critic, and amusician. Educated at Cathedraland University College London, hewas a doctoral student at BalliolCollege, Oxford, and later CreativeArts Fellow at Wolfson College,

Oxford, and Leverhulme Fellow atCambridge. He has written fournovels, which, between them, havewon the Commonwealth WritersPrize, the Betty Trask Prize, theEncore Prize, the Los AngelesTimes Prize for Fiction, and theIndian governments Sahitya AkademiAward, among other honours.His new novel, The Immortals, waspublished by Picador and Knopf this

year. He was one of the ObserversTwenty One Writers for theMillennium. He has also publisheda book of stories, a collection ofpoetry, and two critical works: ThePoetry of the Present: D H Lawrence

and Differenceand Clearing a Space.He has edited the influential PicadorBook of Modern Indian Literature,and, now, Memorys Gold: Writingsfrom Calcutta.He is Professor of

Contemporary Literature at theUniversity of East Anglia. He wasalso one of the judges of the ManBooker International Prize 2009,and is a Fellow of the Royal Societyof Literature. He is a vocalist inthe Hindustani classical tradition,and first brought to the public,in 2005, his acclaimed project incrossover music, This Is Not Fusion(Times Music).

Gautam had stayed back with Khusroo because Khusroo had coaxed

him into believing that dancing was something that could be learnt.

'Tere are no steps, believe me,' he said. 'You just have to move, and

enjoy yourself.' And this matter, of moving, and being able to enjoy it, had

taken on some importance because the first Senior School Social of the year

had been announced, and the date set for Saturday. 'But you must come,'

insisted Khusroo, who had never shown much interest in Gautam's spiritual

or social evolution. 'You should come,' he had said with genuine, thoughinexplicable, eagerness. Gautam had been, at first, resistant. He could not

see himself, much as he would have liked to, wantonly positioning himself a

few inches away from a girl, and then, with aplomb, shivering and shaking

ecstatically before her. Perhaps he would not mind if she did not look at him,

but, contradictorily, perhaps he would mind. Such introspective furrows

were left to be smoothed out by Khusroo, who tried to convince Gautam of

the ordinariness and rationality of it - that dance was not a wayward display,

but a necessary pleasure. Yet Gautam would not have changed his mind had

not Anil, at five foot and half an inch, had the temerity to say, 'Of course

I'm going,' as if it were a right it would be foolish not to exercise. If Anil, at

his height, could suffer to relinquish the shield and protection of his whiteschool uniform for the daring intimacy of his social clothes, so could Gautam.

So here they were, standing in the corridor near the gate, in front

of one of the Standard 9 classrooms, by the back door to the Chemistry

laborotary. Te temperature had fallen, imperceptibly, gracefully, to 27

degrees, till the school itself seemed raised to a timeless stratosphere that

was neither heaven nor earth, a place rained upon by coolness. Te sun

became tolerant, and suddenly sunlight was reflected in blinks and flashes,

now here, now there, off hidden hospital windows across the street which

earlier in the day no one would have guessed even existed. In the trees just

outside the school walls, whose branches climbed prolifically over roofs


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Istudied in Cathedral School upto

Class X, and hated most of it,

perhaps because of my traumatic

first day there. I would feign all kinds

of illness to avoid going to school. My

favourite tactic was to jog up and downas I drank my milk, so that I was forced

to throw up. Actually, I loved home, and

school was an alien land where I was

surrounded by strangers. o this day, I

hate staying away from home. In fact, I

was so deeply unhappy that I even ran

away once. I was in Junior School at that

time and we were taken to the Bombay

Gymkhana for lunch. I spotted our car

outside the Gymkhana and as we were

being led out, I dashed to it and got in. Ofcourse, I was discovered and taken back.

I remember another occasion when I kept

dodging from side to side in the car to

evade my father, who was trying to get

me to go to school.

In Class I, however, I found a teacher

who made school bearable and created in

me a love of English literature. I didnt

know the language too well before that,

as I spoke in either Bengali or Hindi

with my parents and the domestic helprespectively. My teacher encouraged me

to read Ladybird books and Enid Blyton,

on whom I even modelled some of my

English essays. However, since early

childhood, even before I could write, I

would create rhymes, which my mother

diligently wrote down.

When I was in Class VIII, I grew a

little rebellious and was shifted to a

section noted for its rowdiness. By the

time I was in Class IX, I had fallen ill and

missed a number of classes, of which I

took advantage. I grew out of the habit

of studying, though I was always good at

English. I even earned a pink card - akin

to a black mark - for sporting long hair,

not carrying books to school and talking.

Amit Chaudhuri

(ICSE 1977, Savage)First published in Te elegraph, Kolkata


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and partitions, and ranged freely everywhere like a band of irrepressibletrespassers, sparrows had begun to chirp all at once, loudly, excitedly, and

perhaps informatively. Now that the school was empty, it seemed that the

life around it had begun to imitate the intent, sometimes shy, play of the

schoolchildren, with light bouncing and glancing off one hospital window

to the next, chasing certain routes and eluding others, and the invisiblebirds shouting at each other at the top of their voices.

As if he were being rocked from side to side, and backward and

forward, in a train compartment, Khusroo's hip and torso shook, as, morefrugally, did his legs. 'On the shuffeling ma-adness, ' he sang, 'Of loco-

motive bryeath - da da da all time loser's hurtlin' to his dyeath...' Melody

was replaced by a menacing curl of the lips. All the time, Khusroo seemed

to lean forward quickly and spectatorially, and then immediately retreatbackward with a mildly alarmed air; meanwhile, his arms, quite irrelevantly

and encouragingly keeping time, appeared to treat these two ostensibly

unconnected movements as part of a single motion, accompanying them

with magical and peremptory snaps of the fingers. 'You try too,' saidKhusroo. Gautam, sitting on the floor and looking up, pretended cunningly

not to hear. Khusroo stopped and stamped his foot. 'Gautam Bose,

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