The first thing that Rohan noticed when he entered the campus of New India Public School was a network of cables and wires. Telephone wires, Internet cables, TV cables and intercom wires dangled in the air mingling effortlessly with one another. Above them all lay stretched tight and rather majestically the electric wires. Wires played a vital role in New India Public School. In the hostel they did play an undeniably vital role as Rohan realised within a few days. As soon as the Supervisor, Mr Rathode, left after making a perfunctory but imperious announcement through the PA system that it was the lights-off time, all lights would go off, for some time at least, and then the wires would come alive. There was a frantic rush to the switchboard by the students who wanted to charge their mobile phones. Mobile phones were forbidden to the students in New India Public School, “a fully residential school for boys for overall development of your child’s personality.” But every student
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