“I was a bad boy and probably conjured more practical jokes than I have composed songs,” he reminiscences his glory days. One of his favorite is the sand in the kick-bag trick.
“We were taking up marshal-art classes and one day we decided to fill the kick-bag with sand, soaked it up in water, dried it and hung it back in our practice room. Couple of boys, the next day, started a class with bruised hands and damaged legs”, the 43-year-old musician and a full time father of a girl and two boys laugh as he tell his achievement.
“I don’t know why but being a teen, you could justify laughing at someone else’s pain and enjoy their misery. It was a fun day for us but not when our Guru found out that it was us and gave us a whole lot of butt-whooping”.
Nirakar further adds, “The best time of my childhood were spent at the North Point School, Darjeeling where I was from grade 1 till 10. And anyone who has been a hosteler knows what I am talking about”.
Though hostels are thought of as a place to inject children with discipline and cordiality, he rather feels that, “hostels are the places where juvenility and imbecility can spread its wing to the fullest”.
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