LONG WAIT FOR FIRST MOTORBIKE - 225

 LONG WAIT FOR THE FIRST MOTORBIKE 


Almost my entire first 20 years of  life have been in the Hindi Heartland with the major chunk of it being at Bhilai and Kharagpur . Bhilai in the main Hindi Heartland of Madhya Pradesh which is Chattigarh now  and Kharagpur though in West  Bengal had a  sizeable Telugu population which made it easier for me to be more than comfortable with Hindi and Bengali besides the Telugu during early school days .

What this also meant was that despite my Fathers many and varied attempts , my prowess with Tamizh , my mother tongue was restricted to Speaking alone and that too with severe North Indian  intonations .

During the Primary Schooling Period in Kharagpur which ofcourse was in  the Hindi Medium , my father had hired a home  Tamizh Tutor , Ramamoorthy Sir by name to teach me to read and write in Tamizh . He was a tall and  portly man who I guess would have tilted the scales at 120 Kgs plus . The very  look at him was sure to send the shivers down ones spine . He being my tutor made that even worse. .

He used to come to our house Bungalow No 281  in a Moped of the olden days which was no more than a cycle fitted with a motor and also had  a pedal to be used if and when needed to transport his portly frame around a  rough terrain .

No prizes for guessing . Despite his huge frame and other not so subtle ways ,  the best efforts of Ramamoorthy Sir  were inadequate as I could never bring myself to learn even the basics of reading or writing  Tamizh . What it did however do was to   ignite a longing for a MOPED or  a MOTORBIKE later as  I grew up .

Looking back , I got my first Motorbike when I was 26 and it was a Royal Enfield Crusader Bike .  I am almost 70 years old now and I have been fortunate to have had the services of various models like ROYAL ENFIELD CRUSADER , JAWA , RAJADOOT , TWO IND SUZUKI  s , KAWASAKI BAJAJ and the current BAJAJ CT 100 .

Thanks to Ramamoorthy Sir  , though he seems to have had a bad time with making me learn to Read or  Write  Tamizh  , his moped has indeed  been the reason for igniting a passion for the  Motorbikes in me .

ROYAL ENFIELD  CRUSADER

RAJADOOT
JAWA 
IND SUZUKI 
KAWASAKI BAJAJ
BAJAJ CT 100 
Ramamoorthy Sir , God Bless his soul might be pleased to learn that even now at 70 + years , though I can read Tamizh , I am still left wanting in the art of writing in Tamil .





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