To Bose or not to Bose

Avaneesh had to write an essay & talk about a hero of his.

So he came home saying he'll write about Gandhiji.
"There will be a 100 'Gandhiji is my hero' essays out there", said his mom.  Subhas Chandra Bose became the hero candidate. Then started the lecturing about Subhas Chandra Bose - after a quick study on Wikipedia by the parents.

The parents soon discovered that a 5 min overview that didn't include a lot of bombs/guns was pretty insufficient to make a person a 'hero' in a kid's eyes.

• "because he got admission into a good college?"
• "because he got 2nd rank in the good college?"
• "Is Cambridge a good college? " 
• "Where is Cambridge?" 
  
• "because he was the Mayor of Kolkata?" 
• "So.. he fought against the British?" 

That ended the 'let him figure out why Bose was a hero' plan, and started the 'here are 10 things to say- write them down' plan.
Finally, on D-Day arrived (er.. next morning, actually). Mom fired off some questions early morning - both waking him up from his morning stupor, and warming him up. And off went the little guy to the battlefield.


Evening, he's busy trying to make Mario catch the rabbits on the Wii.. and mom finds it the right moment to ask about it. Dad - who'd just demoed his son on how to catch the rabbits - also was a little miffed at the interruption. But he did put on his ' I'm interested' look.
"Did anybody else talk about Subhas Chandra Bose? "


"Oh yes.. four of them"


"So.. did the teacher like what you said? "


"Yes.. she said 'good' when I spoke about Subhash Chandra Bose"


"That's nice!"


"But she said 'very good' for somebody else that talked about him. So, maybe mine wasn't the best"


Two weeks later:

Now its time for the dreaded PTM ( Parent-Teachers Meeting). And we sit in front of the English teacher after having spent half an hour in line. Time well spent by the dad playing 'Temple Run' .
Dad hesitatingly opens "I'm the father of Avaneesh .. 4 D .."
"Oh yes!" the teacher smiles " Avaneesh .. he's a smart boy.. "
Dad relaxes a little
"I'm guessing he's a big fan of Subhas Chandra Bose? "
Now Dad has a confused look
"He knew so much about him.. and the poor kids that had chosen to speak about Bose: He kept correcting them whenever they made the slightest mistake about Bose!"