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Sir Ahuja

Sir Ahuja Realisation was swift and, swifter was the need to get someone teach the likes of us good English, that'd make us more presentable in interviews. Among us, it was Ahuja, who had an exemplary flair and command over the language. Undisputed it was as we were too noob to challenge his authority in any manner whatsoever! With no intended pun, whenever he spake, we used to rush for the dictionaries, that were handy, to browse for the meanings of the words he used meticulously in sentences. It would be great fun to find a mistaken usage that he'd snub saying it was a figurative use. Not knowing sufficient English turned out to be a bane to tread in this modern world. Sufficient, I say because, we all had passed English as a subject in the board examinations. Never realised that the language would rattle us in this manner. All of the language that we knew, was sufficient to cater to our pursuits in science and engineering. It was only after passing out of college