A few months back, I received a phone call from a student whom I taught at St Joseph’s Convent School in Shillong in the early 1990s. She’s now mother of a grownup boy who works in Kerala. When she came to Kochi to visit him, she remembered me. I was quite excited when she recalled certain happy moments from her schooldays of which I was a part too. A teacher’s true reward is such remembrance by former...