A gloomy and doomy Teacher’s Day this year too
The Hindu
Hit by pandemic for two back-to-back years, this tradition has become a thing of the past
Their ranks thinned by the pandemic sackings, Teacher’s Day has just become one more grim marker in the calendar for teachers in the city. “The chant of Gurur Brahma, Gurur Vishnu, Gurur Devo Maheshwara is just a slogan. I was sacked at a day’s notice after being deprived of salary for four months,” says a Math teacher from the city, who has now moved to Nalgonda for farming. Schools with a tradition of celebrating Teacher’s Day, organised by students dressed in civvies with colourful writing on the black board, are just a memory for teachers. “I used to get a salary of ₹18,000 when I was working with Rachana Grammar School in Kapra. After schools reopened, I got a call from another school and was offered ₹5,000 as salary,” says Surindar Karne, who has done MCA and B.Ed and used to teach Math. “Currently, I am working as a salesman with a real estate company. If there are sales, I get money, otherwise it is tough,” he says.A group of 13 men from Dakshin Datta Para village in Nadia district, West Bengal, busy transplanting paddy has been catching the eye of many in Mayildathurai district in recent days. A video clip of the Bengali migrant agricultural workers Singing Hindi and Bengali songs while planting paddy at Nallathukudi village here has gone viral.
Leaders and legislators hailing from Ballari, which is part of the Kalyana Karnataka region, seem to be a source of much political upheaval in Karnataka, going by recent history. This has been the case since the time illegal mining hit national and international headlines in the 2000s and the place gained reputation as “Republic of Ballari”.
The former BJP MLA of Udupi K. Raghupathi Bhat claimed on Saturday that he contesting the Legislative Council elections from South West Graduates’ Constituency as rebel candidate made the saffron party field its party leader C. T. Ravi in the biennial elections to the Legislative Council from the Legislative Assembly.