Learn How to Expertly Spot a Boarding School Wala in India

Here are 10 things that will immediately tell you whether or not someone is from a boarding school. Bonus hint: they have more shirts, sweatshirts, books, copies, thingymums with the name of their school written boldly across them than day-schoolers could ever hope to have.

1. No House of Cards, This: Their worlds begin and end with the workings of their 'houses' and their house-mates. Winning the house trophy at the end of the year is not optional

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2. Years later, they're still obsessed with the 'tuck boxes' they would receive from home. Tuck boxes were those piles of awesomeness which a hoarding boarder hid with the enthusiasm of a game addict in the presence of a PS4 which he/she would rather not share yet.


3. They are completely self-sufficient when it comes to laundry. Bags of unwashed clothes? Nope, not familiar with that.


4. They do not know what it means to get an unexpected holiday because of bad weather or bandhs.

5. Most boarders enter school with one name and leave forever branded with a unique nickname. Pongo, for example is a real nickname. Seriously.


6. Sports is mandatory and nobody plays sports like a boarder does. Athletes had a superstar status and were several leagues above the studious students.


7. Weirdly enough they fondly recollect the terrible food they claimed to have had in boarding school.


8. The friends they made in school seem to be extensions of their soul. An 'outsider' cannot understand their (almost familial) bond.



9. Mile-high piles of homework meant long nights and THAT of course meant mid-night feasts and a life long addiction to caffeine.


10. The Principal is called the Headmaster. No other name is used, and no other name is required.