Inspiring teacher

Kalyan Mankoti used to commute 35 km to teach his students in an Uttarakhand village before the lockdown. But he shifted to the village himself, to continue their education continued during the pandemic.

The saplings planted by the students from 2015-2016 under Rajabhai’s guidance have now grown about 4-5 feet tall.

Padmaja Ramamurthy has taught in both government and private schools during the course of a long career. But nothing compares to the work she is doing at the APSA Dream School, Bengaluru.

The year was 2005. It was just another class on Munshi Premchand that Dr. Yadav was teaching. Except it wasn’t. The students’ enthusiasm to preserve Premchand’s heritage was so overwhelming that Dr. Yadav ended up making a trip to UP. To meet the Chief Minister. Here’s what happened.