Helpful teacher

Srikant Das joined the school Sarasvati Vidya Mandir 6 months ago as senior teacher in hindi literature. He taught the textbook well but his emphasis was more on example based teaching. For most of the textbook topics he would narrate additional short stories. Whenever he got a chance would ball and bat an over with whichever class was playing cricket on the grounds. Very soon students started to trust him as a friendly, helpful and intersting teacher.

In the month of March, came the exams time. Srikant was appointed as invigilator to the class 11th for physics paper. It was his first appointment in the school as invigilator. The students of this class were notorious for the cheat sheets. It was almost impossible for anyone to catch all cheaters and their cheatsheets.

Just 5 minutes after the start of exam, Srikant could see the activities of stundents from corner of his eyes. For sometime he pretended as if he had seen nothing. Later on he looked at one of the student and caught him in action. But unlike other teachers who would have shouted and rebuked the boy, Srikant smiled with a wink that everyone in the class noticed.
Now students got little bolder and didn't tried to hide their cheat sheets as much. With increased activity and boldness of the class, Srikant got concerned. He looked little worried now. He went near the class door, peeped out and closed the door. In a suppressed voice he said to whole class.

"देखो बच्चों, मुझे कोई आप्पति नहीं यदि तुम लोग नक़ल करो, नक़ल के लिए भी अक्ल चाहिए. और फिर हम भी कभी student थे. लेकिन समस्या उस समय उत्तप्पन हो सकती ही जब कोई दूसरा invigilator इधर से गुजरते वक़्त तुम्हे नक़ल करते देख ले. उस स्थिति में तुम्हारा और मेरा, दोनों का कल्याण हो जायेग. इसलिए तुम सब अपने पर्चे मुझे दे दो.. तुम्हे किसी प्रशन का उत्तर चाहीये तो मैं तुम्हे कुंजी देख कर खुद बता दूंगा. इस तरह तुम भी पास हो जाओगे और मेरा भी physics में ज्ञान बढ़ जायेगा."

Students couldn't belive what they just herd. They looked amazed and surprised at the same time. One student, probably most tensed one, asked, "सर, question नंबर 5 का क्या answer है?". Srikant got the reference book to that boy and with his help located the answer. All this happened in the starting 20 mins of the exam. It was eutopia for the students.

Srikant said,"मैं उम्मीद करता हूँ की तुम में से कोई भी इस बात का जिक्र किसी से नहीं करेगा.. क्योंकि बात निकलेगी तो दूर तक जायेगी.. और मेरी नौकरी टोकरी में जा सकती है. अब जल्दी से अपने अपने पर्चे मुझे दे दो."
Whole class never cooperated anyone before, as much they cooperated Srikant in giving out all their cheat sheet. In less than 5 mins, Srikant visited each student, got their sheets and thanked them looking eye to eye. In a class of 30 students only 4 of them didn't had any cheat sheets. While all the faces were shining, anger and dissatisfaction could be easily seen on the faces of these 4 students.

Now Srikant stood taking support of the central table and scratching his head with left hand hand holding the reference book in his right. He had started answering question number 3, when the peon entered the room with fresh answersheets. Srikant asked the peon to distribute it to each one except the 4 students. Whole class was confused as what is happening.

Srikant said,"प्यारे बच्चों, शिकारी अक्सर शिकार को फंसाने के लिए चारा डालते है. तुम्हारे साथ भी यही हुआ. बिना गरज की मदद अक्सर किसी किसम का चारा होती है. फिलहाल तो इस चारे में तुम सब फँस गए हो. अभी से तुम नयी answersheet का इस्तेमाल करो, और अपनी पुराणी answersheet peon को दे दो. तुम्हारे समय में से लगभग ३० मिनट ख़तम हो गए है और बाकि बचा समय नक़ल के बजाय अक्ल का इस्तेमाल करो. मैं उम्मीद करता हूँ की तुम में से कोई भी इस बात का जिक्र किसी से नहीं करेगा.. क्योंकि बात निकलेगी तो दूर तक जायेगी.."