From what I remember Verma brought the hacksaw and for some reason that day I went through his bag and found it. My desk had a nail sticking out on the top infront so when you closed the desk it wouldn’t shut completely. So I hacked off a small bit off that had the nail. You couldn’t tell it was done if the desk top was closed. But you saw me do it and took the hacksaw and started cutting the two front legs of your desk. You kept the saw to cut the desk top in half the next day. But we ran out off luck as the cleaner found out that evening when he came to clean the classroom and grassed us.

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So me you and Verma were called in the headmistresses office as our class prefect gave her our names. We all got suspended but mine wasn’t for cutting the desk but for drawing all over it. Also 2 other guys were suspended with us for defacing their desks as well (not sure who) might have been Vijay and someone else.

Anyway my mum wasn’t happy and tried to speak to the headmistress (her name escapes my mind). And this is where I saw and experienced first hand racialism. I was suspended for a full 2 weeks and everyone else was allowed back in the first week. My dad didn’t know I was suspended so I had to pretend to go to school in the mornings only to end up in Sarit for the first week. 2nd week Mando’s friend took me to his workshop, they used to print clothes for the army and United Nations. So we got some sweatshirts made with the UNEP logo infront and at the back it said “This is not just a job, It’s a Fucking Adventure!”.

So I came to the school gates to talk to the guys in school and also try and sell the sweatshirts. Only to find out everyone that was suspended with me were already back in school. So I went home and told my mum, she took me to school to speak to the headmistress and She said “What do YOU people think this school is, it’s not for you lot”. My mum was taken back and tried to plead with her, I was angry now so I got up and told my mum not to waste her breath and I’ll serve my full suspension.

Guess that is why the headmistress and discipline master didn’t want me back in A levels. Even Gugi couldn’t change their minds and he could get anyone in the school cause of hockey, but that is another story… well that is my version of the hacksaw story.