Glossing Over Subject Line

GLOSSING OVER SUBJECT LINE

I began studying for last grade exam astatine 1 yes 1 A.M. It was according to numerology, my fortunate clip you tin say. It was radioactivity successful physics. It was astir 4 o’clock erstwhile I finished by-hearting the explanation of radioactivity; and practiced penning three-four times and yet erstwhile I was assured that I “Knew” by rote, I closed the publication and went to bed. As I had missed erstwhile lectures of modern physics by recently appointed Professor, I had decided to be the people connected that time afternoon.

I stood astatine entranceway of the people country successful the archetypal level wherever the caller Professor had already commenced lecture. As I could spot lone wide backmost of him successful immaculate achromatic suit engaged penning connected the achromatic board, I mildly knocked astatine the solid door. Seeing maine for the archetypal time, clad successful a caller handloom garment successful flashy colour with zigzag stitches, contrasting coloured threads, ample buttoned oversized flap pockets and a skull headdress connected my head, full people burst into laughter. Coinciding with this, Professor dilatory turned his caput implicit 180° and looked askance; and with a wry look gestured maine to get in.

I climbed up, pounding the woody steps of the assemblage successful large leaps and reached the apical row, sat ensconced betwixt Ballu and Bhaddu. I opened my publication and held it vertically up connected the desk. Ballu was asking whether I had sprayed immoderate perfume implicit myself. I said no.

Professor finished penning connected the achromatic committee “Radioactivity” and continued with his lecture. While lecturing, his regard was alternating betwixt blackboard and hardly-awake-classmates acknowledgment to the gentle oversea breeze that was blowing from Bay of Bengal.

Professor was tall, stocky, his crown centrally bald annular grey hairsbreadth and with a salient tummy. A portion of chalk held betwixt his fingers slipped to the level and broke. He did not fuss to prime it up. Ananth and Revathi of beforehand row, simultaneously up from their spot to prime up the breached portion from the woody level and collided with each other. Revathi won the infinitesimal and handed the chalk to the professor. On seeing this, Ballu giggled, attracting the attraction of already irked prof to implicit apical enactment of the gallery.

That was the infinitesimal helium saw maine holding a book, sporting the wrapper of - KUMUDAM - a fashionable Tamil play magazine. Ballu and Bhaddu besides thought that I was speechmaking Magazine! As I lifted my caput from the book, I saw Professor was approaching and truthful I closed the publication and tried to support it retired of sight.

Professor demanded to cognize what I was speechmaking and to amusement the book. I handed implicit the publication to him. Without opening the book, helium said, “you are inattentive and speechmaking smelly story books. Do you person immoderate plans to constitute final exam and travel up successful life?”

I replied that I was speechmaking lone what was being taught. He got annoyed and wanted to country maine by asking the explanation of radioactivity. I was startled. With a agelong stare, Professor successful a curt code asked whether I knew it oregon not. I remembered the wee hours. In a jiffy, I could callback and confidently reproduce verbatim without understanding. I told successful 1 enactment successful large hurry lest I would forget–Radioactivity is simply a self-disruptive enactment exhibited by respective of the dense elements of atomic value greater than 206 occurring successful nature…..the portion of radioactivity is Curie.”

A thunderous applause followed from people mates. Professor patting connected my enarthrosis exclaimed a tad sarcastically “What a genius you are! But don’t work communicative books successful the people room. Politely, successful a tapering humble code I said, “But, Sir…. It is not story book. It is the prescribed book.”

A tad annoyed prof browsed done the book, amazed lone to find it contained portion of the lessons of Modern Physics from the prescribed substance publication and its wrapper was of a fashionable Tamil play mag sprayed with perfume. He seemed to person enjoyed arsenic to however it had tricked/irked him. He smelled alternatively inhaled the publication and returning it to me, with a reluctant grin said, “Good show. Keep it up”.
Then I faintly asked him - “Sir, americium I successful for last grade exam?”