Fifty years ago, I stood on the veranda of a small temple in Assam, looking out at a handful of children and wondering what on earth I was doing there. Fresh out of college, newly married, and far from everything familiar, I had arrived in a remote Assamese village with the unlikely task of helping build a school for the local community.
This memoir looks back on the creation of Bongaigaon Higher Secondary School—fondly known as the Menon School—and the journey that unfolded around it.
For those who were part of it, these pages offer a chance to remember. For everyone else, it is an invitation to discover an incredible journey shaped by dedication and hope.
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Suhasini Menon
Mrs. Suhasini Menon is the founder and former principal of the Bongaigaon English Medium School in Assam—an institution she established in 1975 and guided for two decades. A postgraduate in English Literature from Kerala, she moved to Assam after her marriage.
Under her leadership, and with the guidance and support of her husband, Mr MBK Menon, the school grew into a well-regarded institution known for nurturing both academic excellence and the holistic development of its students.
After transferring the school’s ownership to a community trust, the couple returned to Kerala. Now 82, she lives in Palakkad.
