#5-Balram Naidu----The 'Rule'r

Well Balram Naidu was like no one we had seen before--I mean, teachers.He was a strict follower of rules, not only regarding the subject ( Mathematics ), but also in everything. His English was true British English, and he always used to ride on his scooter at 10km/hr right on the border between the road and the footpath, on the left end of the road. His favorite (unfortunately) expression 'you see, this one' was a headache! All his other expressions, sentences, etc were bookish and before long, we were tired of him. Even the tick marks or the crosses on our papers used to be on the left margin of each answer and we were also expected to follow all his rules! God alone knows that we learnt anything in Mathematics under him--a boring 'rule'r! Aaah! We did learn some other things though---sticking with rules is no fun! The more he emphasised rules, the more we broke them.