Historic SB college to celebrate 100 years

Over the years, the institution produced two Chief Ministers and a number of writers, artists and other luminaries

The year was 1922 and the occasion a momentous one. V.V. John, former Vice Chancellor of the Jodhpur university, had just enrolled in a junior intermediate class of 125 students that functioned from a multi-storey building in the vicinity of the Parayil Church in Changanassery. Feeling slightly nervous, he proceeded straight to a classroom where a man called Kulandaiswami Pillai was teaching English. “We admit boys till the benches break,” remarked Mr. Pillai, welcoming the youngster to his class.