HOD yaad aya...........

“Seamless tube”……….today while designing a fixture ,as my sir spoke the word, I went down the memory lane…………..the 2nd year B.Tech MOS class. The class had almost full attendance that day with pin drop silence. It was HOD lecture period. No one in campus would dare miss it. And lecturer after dictating problem was meticulously drawing the scaled figure on the blackboard. His people I am sure will never forget his figure drawing procedure. It was made sure that the whole figure is correct, in sense of geometry and scaled dimensions .To give a feel of it, if two lines are supposed to be parallel, u will see them parallel on the board, without break, the lines would flow parallel only. And if they are to be perpendicular you can measure them, they will be perpendicular to the point. Two parts with same thickness will be same without any error. This all he did with complete attention. For example, two make an I-section, initially two rectangles were made, then a thin line at the axis. After which some offsets would be marked for the central section and axis wiped out. The unwanted parts of initial rectangles next. And we students in the class just scribbled the figure with pen. Thus could not wipe out the unwanted parts of figure drawn along with him on out notebooks. This quite irritated us initially, till we got used to it. That day, a problem on seamless tube was being solved. The day, of all those four years, when I was standing in the class being scolded by him. The only one day that it was. One of my classmate murmured “senseless tube” because he had made the mistake of making figure along with lecture and now he will have to do it all over again. As the words reached the benches in and around him, there was a smile on faces. And I got caught smiling, then rounds of investigating, scolding to find out the culprit. I was being scolded, but somewhere deep was enjoying also. A feeling I still don’t understand. But the strange thing I observed that day was HOD reaction, when he heard why I was smiling. There was no sign of any expression over that face. It was all same, pale and with not even a single nerve moving. It all ended on a good note. He scolded, investigated and left all of us .but; I feel he must have surely laughed his way back to his room. Guess there’s a lesson hidden there. A way to control the most notorious, hard to manage group of students.