Tuition

I grew up in a small colony, where tuition was unheard of. Neighborhood uncles and aunties helped us with our difficulties. No monetary transactions involved.I remember evenings,waiting 
at Pandurangaiah uncle's place . He was head of the finance dept. He would come home, hurriedly change and would sit with me teaching accounts.And he was thrilled when I went with a box of sweets and told him my marks. Vaswani uncle helped me with stats. Vishwanathan uncle and Meenakshi aunty taught chemistry when I missed school because of chicken pox.Those were the days and those were the people. Now I realize how fortunate I was to grow up with such role models!