India, May 26 -- In 1990, I was transferred to Delhi from Patna by the Hindustan Times. I had two school-going children. They studied in a good English-medium school in Patna. I was told that St Columba's School was the best in the Capital. I knew the bishop, the late Eugene de Lastic. I approached him for admission.

He told me that the school was run by the Brothers and that he had no control over them. However, he promised to help me get admission to any school run by the priests. He asked me where I was staying. The moment I said, "Pusa Road," he told me that he would give a letter to the principal of St Michael's School, just five minutes' walk from my house.

That is how my children studied at St Michael's till we shifted to Janakpu...