It was a Saturday but the ground-floor classrooms at South Point High School were brimming. The junior school mathematics teacher wrote out the multiplication table of 9 and stopped at five times nine. “We have held an informal Pointers' meet in The Hague,” said Parthapratim Banerjee, of the Madhyamik batch of 1981, adding that country chapters would be opened. “We were the first Madhyamik batch to pass out — in 1976,” said Ranjana Chakraborty, one of the seven attending batchmates. We had to stop registration once we reached 1,600 to avoid a stampede,” said Aspexs secretary Meghnath Roy Chowdhury, from the class of Madhyamik 1990.

Source: The Telegraph January 12, 2026 02:04 UTC