LIFE, AS A STUDENT, IS FAR FROM OVER, SIR
O ne of the widely shared posts on the Teachers’ Day goes like this: There is an image of a thumb impression on the left and a signature on the right… Below, there is this message: “Do you know the difference?” If Yes, then you are obliged to someone… HAPPY TEACHERS’ DAY!” No doubt, our teachers did the difference. But, over all these years of my learning-and-teaching experience, I have become more and more convinced, that there is more than literacy to education. The maid servant, who works in my office for more than twenty-five years, puts her thumb impression when I pay her meager wages every month. But, through her loyalty and compassion, she has left an impression on my heart which is of greater value than some of the greatest signatures in the world! Yes, we are literate… because we can sign… we can read and write. But, are we ‘educated’? Y esterday, here in Mumbai, it was pouring like hell! Around 12 in the noon, I de...