On Teacher's Day

 On Teacher's Day, a lifelong student remembers:

1. 

Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, our first Vice President, Second President and eminent academician who amongst other positions of prominence in World Academia including stints at Calcutta University, Andhra University, Oxford, Benares Hindu University, before his political career culminated in the office of the President of India, but his greatest accomplishment was a near universal love for him and  his role as a Teacher!

It is in honour and memory of this eminent and universally popular Teacher that we celebrate his Birth date as Teacher's Day in India.

2. My first Teachers: My Mother , my Father , my Sister, my grandparents, my Uncles and Aunts, Cousins and my extended Family.

3. My Friends with whom many a lesson was learnt together.

4. All the books I had the great fortune of having easy and unfettered access to because there was hardly any family member who wasn't also a bibliophile and all the authors who have enriched the fabric of my mind with tales and stories real and unreal, with arguments simple and complicated, with theses alien and familiar...

5. All my teachers,, Seniors, Peers, and Juniors  at the various schools and institutions I studied in:

Fatima High School, Vidyavihar, Mumbai ;  Hindu School , Indiranagar, Chennai; Air India Modern School, Kalina, Mumbai; The College of Engineering , Pune(COEP); The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade(IIFT), Delhi.

6. All my Bosses and Colleagues, Mentors and mentees at all the places I've Worked at:

ESAB India Limited, T.I.M.E pvt. Ltd., Olam International, Vanguard Business School, MIT Group of Institutions/ MIT-WPU, Great Lakes Institute of Management, Gurgaon, GITAM University

7.  One Mr. Freddie Mercury, who was born this day in Tanzania in 1946, who is arguably the greatest entertainer that ever walked this planet. And one who fiercely

And also, last, but not the least:

8. All my students over the years, who have always taught me more than they have learnt from me.  

If we are as a nation to rise and march to our appointer tryst with destiny, the encounter will never be one that we can claim satisfaction to unless this precious breed of teachers in India is encouraged, feted, respected and revered.

Wishing all teachers everywhere in India and the world a very happy Teachers Day!!