All of us in our batch owe something or the other to ILT. He was fair to everyone, and did not have favourites. How I wished there was some one like him to be warden/principal of the school when my children went there.
These are a couple of photos when Ramus Dad, the legendary Sivaji Ganesan gave him a farewell party in 1970.(In fact I have a lot of pix of Sivajiappa with ILT and others and will be pointing you to it shortly).It was a dinner in the then 4th eleven (now relegated as a car park) and if I'm not mistaken biriyani was on the menu.
Ramu remembers what Lado the head of boarders announced on that day.."Vegetables to the left and non-vegetables to the right". And I seem to remember Lobo was drunk and was weaving about.
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