Teachers' day
September 5. In India, this day is celebrated as Teacher's day, commemorating the birth anniversary of Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (the first Vice President of India, the second President of India, renowned teacher, philosopher and writer). Above all, a day to remember and honour our teachers. From early years, I looked forward to this day as it was celebrated in a very special way during my schooling years (and this is more than a few decades back!). On this day, teachers took a break from teaching. Select students got to be a teacher for a day, with each student being assigned to be one of the teachers in the school, taking up his/her duties in different classrooms as per the day's schedule. Once I got to be a Hindi teacher and another time, I was the primary school headmistress. This also became the one day you could wear colour dress to school. Super excited for that! Sounds super cool! but it was always far from easy. To hold the attention of a class, to even get through
