We're soon going to have many young and bright minds saying things like Expecto Patronum or Wingardium Leviosa!

You ask why?

Well, it's pretty huge - the Council of School Certificate Examination (CISCE) has prescribed some of the most popular books in the world as part of the curriculum for junior and middle-school students.

Further cementing the great truth that ICSE > all other boards pic.twitter.com/g8gipjibM4 — Suprateek Chatterjee (@SupraMario) November 24, 2016

English classes in ICSE schools will no longer be the same. Students will now read graphic novels like Amar Chitra Katha, Tintin and Asterix, and American cartoonist Art Spiegelman's Holocaust saga 'Maus'.

This is going to have such a profound impact on our youth. Just imagine students from class III to VIII reading these books - such a creative-first world.

Uttiya Gupta, a Class-VI student of Adamas International School, was ecstatic at the news."This is great news. I am a big fan of Tintin and Asterix as well as Harry Potter. Now, I would love to study them in class. The classes will become super exciting," he said.

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In fact, students will also read Feluda, Poirot, Holmes and The Hobbit'.

For humour lovers, there will be P G Wodehouse. The admirers of classics will have Dickens.

And if you think too much fiction is taking over, think again. Autobiographies from Anne Frank, Malala, and APJ Abdul Kalam will be on the list too.

Classes I and II will get their fill of Noddy with lots of illustration.

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"We welcome this move as children will immensely enjoy reading these during their classes. Not everything will be serious reading," said Nabarun De, principal, Central Model School, Baranagar.

A uniform syllabus for 2017-18 has been introduced on Wednesday. If some schools fail to implement this in the coming academic session, they will be granted a year's extension.

Do you miss school now? Do you want to go back and make it right?

God knows I do.