The Lectures

Our first lecture of B.Sc. was of Mathematics. Up till graduation I could manage to overcome this demon. The lecture started with the topic ‘Sphere’. I could manage to recollect only this topic above all the lectures. The lecturer taught us some equations (a meaningless hodgepodge of x, y, a, b with +, - etc… meaningful only to mathematicians) of spheres. Like in cricket, the toss decides winning chances of a team; similarly first academic lecture decides your final score of that academic session. Anyway we were in the first lecture of B.Sc. in Jagadamba Mahavidyalya, Achalpur and the topic was sphere. The other name for this sphere is ball. I still could not understand who benefits by studying this equation. Cricketers uses ball for balling, even if the bowler does not know this equation he still manages to take wickets. Abhay and I were on the second bench. Nilesh and Shyam were sited on the first bench of the middle row. You can forget the previous statement because it is not constant. It will vary (mathematical name: variable) i.e. our sitting place was varied everyday.

The second lecture started with Thevinion and Norton theorems. It was a physics lecture. During the lecture a guy told me that the lecturer has written a book. The lecturer was intelligent except the fact that he struggle to construct statement in English. He was suffering from the deficiency of the English words. This was a matter of fun through out our academic session. After the lecture we unanimously reach to a decision that we will gift him a dictionary after the completion of the session.


One more physics lecturer was suffering from the similar deficiency of English just a difference was this lecturer had the habit of constructing the English statements on the lines of Marathi statements. For example- If we compare two different values, one being smaller than other with big difference then in Marathi we talk Kuthe 40 ani kuthe 40,000. He used to covert the same statement exactly in English like where is 40 and where is 40,000.