A most delightful evening

I hugely enjoy old boys dropping in for a chat, but I spend most evenings alone, or only one visitor like that turns up. So it was most exhilarating to see several of them knocking at my door today, one after another, just after my classes were over. There was one from the '94 batch, come to consult me about how his son should handle his studies, one favourite from the 2002 batch and another from 2007 who has almost become family, another from the the 2016 batch and another, 2019. We chatted gaily over cakes and coffee, and then went out together for my regular walk. It was all topped off by a phone call from Kolkata, someone else who has kept in touch ever since he left school in 1998. I wish I could enjoy more evenings like that: I'd have looked and felt fifteen years younger.

It was Swami Vivekananda's birthday today. Google ferrets out so many relatively obscure Indians with no very great claim to fame to feature on their doodles, but evidently he was not found worthy!