Inspiring India, Inspiring Teachers – Teacher’s Day Special

“Gnyaana Shakti Samaaroodah Tatwa Maalaa Vibhooshitaha Bhukti Mukti Pradaaneyna Tasmai sri Gu

Inspiring India, Inspiring Teachers – Teacher’s Day Special

“Gnyaana Shakti Samaaroodah

Tatwa Maalaa Vibhooshitaha

Bhukti Mukti Pradaaneyna

Tasmai sri Gurave Namaha.”

Meaning: The one who is an ocean of knowledge, who is always in Yoga (in unison With God) who is adorned by the knowledge of the God principle, the One Who can liberate us from this mundane existence, I salute such a Guru.

A TEACHER is the one who awakens creativity, knowledge and expression. A teacher is the one who ignites our imagination and is the only person who can instil the love of learning in us.

The educational programs we are following nowadays is only a crude material for information. Be that as it may, a great teacher is a person who acquires enduring effect by his/her glow. Teachers are essential components in everybody’s lives, they contact the spirit of their soul and get the best of them.

On this Teacher’s day, Zedua takes the opportunity to express our respect and love for those Inspiring Teachers of India who has ever observed. They are the brilliant individuals who have put their lives to shape student’s lives by controlling them to make progress throughout everyday life. The rundown here portrays incredible teachers who have eclipsed troublesome circumstances, developed interesting teaching techniques and have conveyed more respect to the noble profession Called ‘Teaching’.

Inspiring Teachers of India

Anand Kumar

Inspiring Teachers of India- anand kumar

Profession: Indian mathematician

From: Patna(Bihar)

Anand Kumar is an Indian mathematician, educationalist and a columnist for various national and international mathematical journals and magazines.

He is best known for his Super 30 programme, which he started in Patna, Bihar in 2002, and which coaches economically backward students for IIT-JEE, the entrance examination for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).

By 2018, 422 out of the 480 had made it to the IITs and Discovery Channel showcased his work in a documentary. He has been invited by the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University to speak on his globally acclaimed effort to mentor students from the underprivileged sections for admission to IIT.

Babr Ali

Profession: Headmaster of his makeshift school.

From: Murshidabad( West Bengal)

Babar Ali is an Indian student and teacher from Murshidabad in West Bengal. He was called the”Youngest headmaster in the world” by BBC on October 2009, at the age of sixteen. This 21-year-old has been teaching all his life. He started teaching at the tender age of 9.

He became the headmaster of his makeshift school at his 15th age. There are 800 children learning at the school, starting from four or five years of age. That the school is tuition-free makes it affordable for the poor in this economically deprived area, so that the school has been recognised to have helped increase literacy rates in the area.

In Murshidabad, there had been no governmental or private schools. Pupils come from nearby villages and walk up to four kilometres in order to attend their lessons. This man found the all-time solution to this problem.

Barun Biswas

Inspiring Teachers of India

Profession: School teacher and a social activist in Sutia

From: Sutia (West Bengal)

Barun Biswas was a Bengali school teacher and a social activist in Sutia, West Bengal.

After his education, Biswas passed the West Bengal Civil Service exam and chose a career in social work and education.

In 2000, he co-founded “Sutia Gonodhorshon Pratibad Mancha“, an organisation which protested against a local criminal gang, who were using gang-rape to terrorise the people of Sutia. His organisation started to hold public meetings to protest the rapes.

Biswas was murdered on 5 July 2012. In 2013, a Bengali film Proloy was made, based on his life and fight.

Aravind Gupta

Profession: Indian toy inventor and expert in science.

From: Murshidabad( West Bengal)

Arvind Gupta is an Indian toy inventor and expert in science. He got the civilian award “Padma Shree” on the eve of Republic Day, 2018.

Arvind Kumar Gupta took a year’s study leave from TELCO (in 1978) to work with the grassroots village science teaching programme for children in the tribal district of Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh. While there, he developed many useful low-cost teaching/science teaching aids using locally available materials.

Arvind Gupta’s first book, ‘Matchstick Models and other Science Experiments‘, was translated into 12 Indian languages by various Popular Science groups and sold more than half a million copies.

Professor Sandeep Desai

Inspiring Teachers of India

Profession: Trustee for Free English Medium Schools

From: Mumbai

Sandeep Desai, a former marine engineer and academician, is a resident of Goregaon and the famous Mumbai man who begged on local trains to start rural English medium schools across villages in Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Bihar.

Desai’s social service began in 1997 when he quit his job and took up other assignments to fund Shloka, a free English-medium school for children from the Goregaon slums.

Between 2010 and 2012 Sandeep raised more than Rs 50 lakh to run four schools.

Rajesh Kumar Sharma

Inspiring Teachers of India

Profession: Teacher of Under the Bridge School

From: Delhi

Rajesh Kumar Sharma, a college dropout who runs a general store, teaches 200 children from poor families under a railway flyover

Around 200 kids from nearby slums attend his school that functions from 9 am to 2 pm in two batches. The children are taught to read, write, and basics of English, Hindi, science, mathematics, history, and geography.

He wanted to become an engineer, but couldn’t because of his family’s poor financial condition. It’s what led him to give others a chance at an education and led to the formation of his ‘Under the Bridge School‘.

Roshni Mukherjee

Indian Teachers

Profession: Founder of Exam Fear online education platform

From: New Delhi

Roshni Mukherjee has an online education platform where she teaches students with the help of videos which she uploads on YouTube.

She did her M.Sc in Physics from Hansraj College, Delhi University.

Not satisfied with the quality of teachers and education being imparted in schools, the lady started ExamFear in 2011 while working in the corporate sector at Wipro.

At present, she has more than 3800 video lessons on her YouTube channel on Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics for Classes 9th to 12th and 75000 subscribers.

Aditya Kumar

Inspiring Indian Teachers

Profession: Teacher

From: Farrukhabad Lucknow

Aditya Kumar, better known as the “Cycle Guruji”, is the man who has not only changed his own fate but also the fate of over 6000 underprivileged children in India.

He did his graduation in Science. After graduation, Aditya decided to spread literacy in slums.

On January 12, 2015, with just Rs 500 in his pocket, Kumar began his ride from Hazratganj collectorate in Lucknow and went on to cover states such as Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Bihar. He pedalled to Jharkhand from Bihar and from here would cover Odisha, Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Assam and the Northeast to spread awareness about the need for education amongst the lowest factions of society.

The man even teaches languages, mathematics for free to students who cannot afford to go to school. Aditya earned a place in the Limca Book of Records in 2014 for cycling to slums in an around Lucknow since 1995 to teach children there.

Teaching is a noble profession and these men and women who tirelessly work towards a better future of India. We are very proud and blessed heavily to have these great teachers in our Country. Wish their service run successfully in the coming years.

On this teachers day, Zedua salutes all teachers across the world for their priceless service towards creating a well-educated society.