Hits and Misses
That when I was in Class 6 in our village ESLC School in Kerala, I got the first prize in Long Jump which I executed in my new white full pants, was a hit. That I was known as “High Jumper Rajendran” in the High School in Madras, from Class 8 onwards, was a hit. That in one Malayalam test in Class 8, I was given the maximum marks for a question on reference to context in poetry and when my class mates questioned the teacher complaining that I wrote only four lines whereas they wrote a whole para, and when he said that in those four lines I had written much more than what they wrote, though baffled me, was a hit. From then on that I was first or second in every class both in Malayalam and English was also a hit. The teacher had pulled the trigger! That I represented my School in Swimming as a sub-junior was a hit. That I represented my College in Basketball (from which I walked away after two years for reasons not relevant here), Volleyball, Football and Athletics a