ONE morning, at a school assembly, the principal urged students and teachers to make their school a ‘heaven on earth’. A bit later, the same morning, two boys from Class 3 were brought before the principal because they had got into a quarrel that resulted in fisticuffs.
Asked to explain themselves, one of the little boys spoke up with passion. Pointing to the other child, he said: “Ma’am, if this school is to be a heaven on earth, then what is he doing here?”
Professor Krishna Kumar narrated this story to a. . .