Dr Anjana Subba
Class of 2004
Consultant physicianTeaching hospital, Dharan
“What the college gave me was the habit of finishing things. I have not found a better thing to be given.”
Doctors, engineers, teachers and nurses — and a good number of them back in the valley they grew up in.
Nine thousand four hundred on the register. A few of the names the college is asked about most.
“What the college gave me was the habit of finishing things. I have not found a better thing to be given.”
“The Saturday tutorials taught me to argue with a problem until it gave in. I still work that way.”
“The drawing and geometry classes in the old quadrangle taught me to appreciate traditional Newar architecture.”
“Every essay came back covered in ink. I mark my own students the same way.”
Our maths teacher set one extra problem every day, Fridays included. I teach engineering now, and my students get the same treatment.
I was shy until Grade 8, when they put me on the debate team anyway. That one decision changed everything that came after.
The library was small, but the librarian always kept the new Madhupark aside for me. I became a journalist because of that shelf.
Inter-house football on a dusty ground, cheering until we lost our voices. I have been to big stadiums since, and none felt like that.
When my father was ill, the school let us pay the fees late and never said a word about it in front of anyone. I have not forgotten.
I came back to teach here. Some of my old teachers are now my colleagues, and they still correct my handwriting.