The Lion and the Goats
My eldest brother Hriday always used to get a hundred out of a hundred in mathematics. He took after my father. My sister Ahana descended to sixty and Mantu to forty. I descended to thirty- three! Fortunately, in the Indian system thirty-three is passing. Sometimes with greatest difficulty I would get forty. I used to memorise everything in the book, but the teacher would change the questions in the examinations, so my memorization didn't work. When my brothers were in college, my father used to tell them mathematical equations from memory while he was lying down relaxing. He would help them solve their problems with such speed and accuracy that he always astonished them. Such brains my father had! That is why my aunt used to say that my father was a lion and my brothers were goats.
