TWENTY fours years ago, my friend Sabbas Joseph (now the Wizcraft chief) and I stood nervously outside the St Xavier's College principal's office — Sabbas was the editor of the college magazine, The Xavierite — he'd written a controversial piece on the faulty nature of conducting exams. I'd written something on the questionable nature of the church.

Considering this was a Catholic college, somebody felt we were being 'seditious'. And had to be pulled up. We were certain that we were going to be expelled, Miraculously, we weren't. But it was the first taste I had of college politics, not in the way that say Elphistone had over us Xavierites.