Toward the start of the story, we discover Swamy the hero of the story plays truant and untruths his mother that he has a headache.
As he indicated hesitance to go to school his mother inquired as to whether he had any important exercises that day.
In answer, Swamy opined that the topography teacher had been teaching a similar exercise for over a year now and math period implied for the entire time frame the students would have been rebuffed.