My dad was also my teacher for couple of years. From that perspective, all of school KV friends were also his students. This day, every year, few of friends either would call me or my dad directly to wish him on teachers day..We all are shaped by our teachers in our school days. I too usually talk or atleast send messages to my KV teachers ( most of whom incidentally are all family friends as well ).
I got one message today from Raghu Katageri ( my senior at school, family friend ) saying that he used to call every year wishing Pappa and hence he messaged me since he was remembering. I'am sure there would be others who would have been doing the same.
In KV, we used to have a very interesting custom of the senior most class representing all the teachers in school and run the school for the day. Hence, it usually would be XII class students who would represent each teacher on 5th Sept every year and they would take all the classes for rest of the classes.
Pappa interestignly began his career with 'BSNL' ( Indian Telephones ) after his graduation and was posted to Madras ( chennai ). It would have been a great career for him considering that all those in those times rose to become very senior officers in BSNL 'Indian Telephone'. However, it was not to be because he was destined to be a teacher. Apparently, he was so unhappy with the madras weather that he decided to come back to Hubli just after few days of training because of the extreme heat in Madras..
He later was in Kundgol for a short time and later in New English Girls school, Hubli and later joined Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan as a TGT, which eventually was his organization till retirement. He used to teach Physics, Mathematics mostly and infact taught me Physics and Mathematics in 8th, 9th standard..
His students were his great assets and he often used to locate atleast one or more prominent students wherever he was ..I have seen his students range from Prominent IAS officers, Businessmen, Doctors, Engineers and even one very prominent scientist who is well known globally ( Sreenivas Kulkarni was apparently his student and is a well known and acclaimed scientist in Astrophysics and professor in CalTech, USA, who is also incidentally brother of Mrs Sudha Murthy ) Ref : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinivas_Kulkarni
I'am sure there are many others whom possibly I may not know.
I got one message today from Raghu Katageri ( my senior at school, family friend ) saying that he used to call every year wishing Pappa and hence he messaged me since he was remembering. I'am sure there would be others who would have been doing the same.
In KV, we used to have a very interesting custom of the senior most class representing all the teachers in school and run the school for the day. Hence, it usually would be XII class students who would represent each teacher on 5th Sept every year and they would take all the classes for rest of the classes.
Pappa interestignly began his career with 'BSNL' ( Indian Telephones ) after his graduation and was posted to Madras ( chennai ). It would have been a great career for him considering that all those in those times rose to become very senior officers in BSNL 'Indian Telephone'. However, it was not to be because he was destined to be a teacher. Apparently, he was so unhappy with the madras weather that he decided to come back to Hubli just after few days of training because of the extreme heat in Madras..
He later was in Kundgol for a short time and later in New English Girls school, Hubli and later joined Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan as a TGT, which eventually was his organization till retirement. He used to teach Physics, Mathematics mostly and infact taught me Physics and Mathematics in 8th, 9th standard..
His students were his great assets and he often used to locate atleast one or more prominent students wherever he was ..I have seen his students range from Prominent IAS officers, Businessmen, Doctors, Engineers and even one very prominent scientist who is well known globally ( Sreenivas Kulkarni was apparently his student and is a well known and acclaimed scientist in Astrophysics and professor in CalTech, USA, who is also incidentally brother of Mrs Sudha Murthy ) Ref : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinivas_Kulkarni
I'am sure there are many others whom possibly I may not know.
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