The first period of college! The
principal enters the class with the result sheet of Pre-test Exam. He scolds, rebukes,
warns and then mellows his voice and attempts to pursue and convince the
students for a better result. But his mellowed voice no longer continues. Something
queer happens. Silence pervades the class. He pauses for a moment. Then he
calls the name of a Pankaj Mallick. He points out that he is short of
attendance and that he is lurching at the bottom of the result sheet. In
response to his announcement a boy sitting on the back bench rises up and
swallows all the bitter words with his face downward.
The boy stands up putting up a grim
face but a clear red rose gets visible on his bosom. The rose was a prominent sticker
pasted on the front pocket of the college uniform shirt. The result analysis
now takes a new direction. The red red rose attracts both anger and contempt
from the principal. He shouts at the top of his voice. He shouts because he
thinks the college uniform is tarnished by the display of such love symbol by a
teenager. One of the lecturer who had accompanied the Principal into the classroom
now goes one step further and plucks the flower from the boy’s shirt. The boy
instantly loses both his identity as a student and his identity as a lover of
beauty.
Like a whirlwind the squad of the
teachers leaves the class. And the result of RESULT ANALYSIS is an intimidated
class that learns to be blind to a Red Red Rose.
