PPAJ

PPAJ ?? 

Yes, PPAJ. 

Means ??

Wait a minute.

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After posting the story of the Darlings I thought of some of my students with the same name in the same M.Sc batch. I think the trend started with the two Mini's of the 1988 batch. One was Mini John and the other was Mini Oomman. . Then there were two Simi's in a batch ( 1992??), Simi Zachariah and Simi Sanker.I think a Bengali girl Reema Poddar was in that batch. I used to re-live my MSc days in Agra by talking to her in Hindi. There were two Suja's in the 1993 batch. In the 1994 batch there was a Jayan and a Jaya. In the 1997 batch, there was a Jyothi, a Lakshmi and a Jyothi Lakshmi !!! There were two Ranjini's in the 2004 batch. In the last (official) batch I taught (2013) there were two Harikrishnan's. To differentiate between them I used to address one as Hari and the other as Vaikom Hari. Both are artists. Hari paints while Vaikom is an expert in 'Kalamezhuthu'.

Now comes the Mother of all names, PPAJ. Priya Parvathi Ameena Jose !!!

Legend has it that her grand father was a freedom fighter and that he wanted all faiths to be equally represented in his grand daughter's name. She was a brilliant student of the 1995 (?) batch..She used to be very pleasant always yet preferred to be very subdued and walked with a perennial loving smile She now teaches Physics at the St: Theresa's College Eranakulam. From her student Anjana ( Anjana was my student too) I learnt that Priya, as the name suggests, is the darling of the Physics students at the St.Theresas College.

There were some more 'pairs'. But I  don't remember. If you do please write.

A word about the 2013 batch
This class was very special for me. They were my officially last batch. The boys and girls were all very loving. The measure of their love and respect for me defied all logic. Without exaggeration I can say that theirs was a libation with love. This is not to say that I deserved it or I enjoyed it. But that was their attitude. They took me along with them for their tour to Kodaikanal, a place I love visiting again and again. I really want to thank them for their unfathomed, unbounded love.
 Harsha, have you read this??