Author - Jui Purohit.

  School life teaches us valuable lessons. Never cheat a friend, is one of them. Yes, you could help her cheat in exams, but to betray in friendship, absolute taboo. Treasuring friendships was what I learnt at my school. Be it patiently waiting outside her house while going to school, when she's not yet ready, or be it taking notes for her, when she's not keeping well. When we talk about being faithful, it also rings a bell in terms of team spirit. The team sports that we played, taught us how to accommodate. Different temperaments, different ideas, variety of views, all blended well into a team. The rotation, in which partners on the benches would change, also made us mingle with all sorts of kids. And when there are all sorts of kids present, some may be mischief mongers. Bullying, never do that. A major life lesson, that's the best take away of school days. Whenever we would come across any such act, we would surely rush to the victim's aid. Such incidents succour yo...

  School is temple of knowledge', we all know this saying, don't we? Knowledge, yeah, all kinds of knowledge is what you get at school. From studying to bunking classes, from making friends to making boyfriends and girlfriends, from skill sets in certain subjects to subjecting yourself to bullying, from respecting teachers to teaching how to prank the teachers, from sharing and caring to daring and stunts, 'Pheww', yes possibly everything. The first friends that we make are in early years of our school. Cannot remember exactly how and when, but the wavelengths (whatever that means at that young age) matched and some of us are still friends, in contact, reuniting and having fun. We had no social media then, but if we had, it would've flooded with pictures, videos and chatters, of us all. We had a very dynamic group. We choreographed dances for our annual functions, we did skits, dramas, plays, we participated in inter-school competitions. After each exam, our group, ...