Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 2, Delhi Cantt., APS Colony

There are almost 1,100 Kendriya Vidyalaya's spread across India. But, irrespective of the Vidyalaya you went to, you have had some very similar experiences across them. It is like standardization of education, and that too a quality one!

Here is a list of 13 unique experiences, that only an ex-student of KV would relate to:

1. Parroting out the morning prayer, without understanding one bit of what was being recited. "Asato Ma Sad Gamaya... Tamso Ma Jyotir Gamaya"

Maybe the words “Daya kar daan vidya ka, hamein paramatma dena” have now become so much more beautiful and meaningful

2. Believing for most part of the school years that SUPW meant Some Useful Periods Wasted

Or maybe in some cases, this indeed was true ;o) Unless the proactive students were able to do Point no. 3 in case of SUPW periods as well!

3. Pleading with teachers and converting all Arrangement/Free periods into a Games periods

4. Coming up with various reasons to class monitor/prefects for skipping the morning assembly

After all, the accomplishment of bunking the 30 minutes morning assembly under the sun, to relax under the fan inside the classroom, gave such a big high!

5. After reaching class IX, making sure your morning pledge was “conditional”. Ahem….!

All Indians are my brothers and sisters... Except ___,___ and ___ ;o)

6. Before the Gryffindors and Slytherins of Hogwarts, the competition was between the biggest STARs of town

- Shivaji
- Tagore
- Ashoka
- Raman

Oh yes, their own Harry Potter story was right there, and it was fun kicking the ass of the other houses.

7. Forgetting to wear the white canvas shoes on Wednesdays and getting punishment from the “PT” Sir...

And how many times did you rub white chalk on the dirty shoes to make them ‘whiter’!? :D

8. Becoming your teachers best pal when the “inspection” was on, giving out all the ‘right’ answers

And of course, ensuring the classwork notebook was all complete, corrected and signed!

9. Coming up with new variants of Yog asanas during the Yoga Period

10. Distributing toffees on birthdays and treating close friends with bread-pakoras at the canteen Or samosas!?

11. Bursting fire-crackers in the boys toilets during Diwali time without getting caught... That was fun!!! bombs with timers ;o)

12. Celebrating the half day last working day of every month almost as a Holiday...

13. Fighting it out for your Vidyalaya in various inter-KV competitions and treating the trophy no less than Olympic Gold

The thing is, if you had studied at any Kendriya Vidyalaya, you now realize how important those years at school were in making you reach where you are today. It is a no brainier, that with such low fees, amazing infrastructure, dedicated teachers and of course, diligent students, KV's offer the biggest Return on Investment in the education sector!!!