Cup puts students on graveyard shift

Updated on: Sunday, March 06, 2011

A group of teenage boys sit around a metal grill trying to memorise a law of physics. The signs and silence of the final resting place does not really bother them. This crematorium near the upmarket city point area in Nadiad has become a study area for students preparing for the upcoming board exams as they cannot concentrate at home while World Cup cricket matches are going on.

Some 20 boys from different schools come here at 8 am and study till sundown, taking a break only for lunch, to avoid the cricket excitement on television at home. Akshar Patel is a Class XII science student of Basudiwala Public High School located close to the crematorium. A high scorer in the Class X board exam, he lives in a joint family and when matches begin, his home resembles a cricket ground with everyone glued to the television. “I tried studying in a separate room, but got distracted, so I began coming here,” he said.

Dipesh Patel, a Class X student of the New English Teaching School, studies here with his 7 classmates. He has a small family and his father is a contractor.

“People keep coming and there is lot of disturbance at my house,” he says. His mother Heena said she has no problems with her son choosing a funeral site as a study center. “We send him there because of the peace and quiet and when he studes with others he recalls better,” she said.

The boys have been coming here for a week and so far there has been no funeral, says Alpit Vyas, a Class XII science student. “This place has a beautiful garden and it is fun to study with friends,” he says. Chintan Vaghela of Class XII commerce from New English School also comes with a group of friends because he finds too much interference from the family at home.

Cup puts students on graveyard shift

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