Memories of caning at Indian school
From Shobhaa Dee, an Indian blogger, on 13 June:
Reading the account and watching the television clips revived long buried memories of being frequently caned myself as a school girl. This was the punishment reserved for students who were considered ‘rebellious’ and ‘disobedient’. Of course , I was both… and worse.
But to be so severely punished for those ‘failings’ by the ogre of a school principal – a towering woman representing a Scottish mission ? I often went home with swollen , angry red welts… that made me feel so ashamed, I hid them from my parents
[I can now] retell and relive those hellish minutes when I’d be summoned to the Principal’s office after standing on the yellow bench for hours, often without food or water… The old era of adopting the so-called traditional ‘cane and able’ modus operandi to make errant kids toe the line are over…
