Acharya devo bhava

This world and our country have seen great men who have devoted themselves as teachers that has significantly influenced the course of history. Right from Confucius to Aristotle to Albert Einstein to our dearest Dr. Radhakrishnan, in whose name we celebrate this day, have left behind immortal lessons for us to preach and practise for the good of humanity.

Teachers have perhaps the most sacred of duties for they are the modellers of the minds and shapers of visions. As we thank all the teachers in our lives for guiding us, let us as a generation remember that whoever amongst us become one ourselves, we are carrying the torch that has been passed on to
us from such men as above.

'A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.'

For a greater country. For a greater world.

"Wherever men love reason, shun darkness, turn over towards light, praise virtue; despise meanness, hate vulgarity, kindle sheer beauty, wherever minds are sensitive, hearts generous, spirits free, there is your country. Let us adopt that loyalty to humanity instead of a sectional devotion to one part of the
human race.” - Dr. Radhakrishnan.

Greetings on the eve of Teacher's Day.

The Trial, 1922. A lawyer at the accused's stand.

Barrister MK Gandhi held surprises right from the beginning leaving the Magistrate startled when he declared his profession as 'Farmer and Weaver' to pleading guilty at the first call to suggesting the Judge to resign if he found the prevailing law 'evil' to finally thanking the Judge for doing his duty as called upon by the law.

The strongest argument in favour of the prosecution at that moment was, that if the government does not prosecute Gandhi, they may never be able to prosecute him afterwards; for the spread of his mischievous propaganda during the following few months was anticipated to 'advance beyond an academic stage and affect the India Army.'

However, on the contrary, it was a political blunder.

What was intended as a strategic attempt to curb the national movement in fact, backfired.

Judge Broomfield: 'And I should like to say in doing so that if the course of events in India should make it possible for the Government to reduce the period and release you, no one will be better pleased than I'.

Gandhi: 'So far as the sentence itself is concerned, I certainly consider that it is as light as any judge would inflict on me, and so far as the whole proceedings are concerned, I must say that I could not have expected greater courtesy'.