LET’S MAKE THE STORY AS WE GO ALONG…

“Words are beautiful” she wrote on a ruled piece of paper evidently torn from a school notebook extended to her by a little girl asking for an autograph.

You know you have a brilliant session when the children cheered gleefully and other kids popped their heads out of their classroom windows to listen to the speaker, intrigued by her story.

The story Tanya Luther Agarwal narrated to the 6th and 7th graders of Kendriya Vidyalay Air Force Station was “Jungle Brew”. A very interesting take on how the world’s first cup of “masala chai” came to be created.

The children sat on the concrete, restless,entertained, amused, excited, some moved away from a friend for talking too much, others distracted by my camera. Sitting in columns dressed in an uniform white, grey and navy, with red ribbons in the girls’ hair adding a touch of colour.

When the session ended the children surrounded Tanya Luther Agarwal like a swarm of bees, flooding her with questions and asking for autographs. And I couldn’t understand why I was asked to sign autographs too!

- Urvashi Das