Today marks the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhiji known as 'Father of the Nation'. It is also the birth anniversary of Mr Lal Bahadur Shastri, second Prime Minister of India and a Gandhian. He was born in 1904.
I remember the role that I played as 'school boy Gandhi' in a school drama during my high school days in the mid '60s.
I also remember my visit to the Phoenix Ashram which he founded and the Pietermaritzburgh railway station where he was pushed out from the 1st class compartment of a train by a white South African in Apartheid struck South Africa of those years. (Although I had taken many photograps, my camera fell down and the film got spoiled. This was in early '90s when digital cameras were not popular).
About Me
- Guruprasad Panamalai
- Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
- I am a retired K-12 Education Management Professional. I have worked at different levels in K-12 school systems, textbook publishing, elearning and Education NGOs. I have held memberships in The Association for Science Education (UK), American Association of Physics Teachers and The Malaysian Institute of Physics. I hold a 1st class B Sc Degree in Physics followed by B Ed [English and Physical Science] and M A [Childcare and Education] degrees. My published works include 59 articles in teacher development magazines in India and the US and a book entitled `Creative Classrooms and Child Friendly Schools' (listed in Amazon). This book is almost an anecdotal account of my professional experience in six countries (including Cambodia where I worked as Technical Adviser to the Ministry of Education, Youth And Sports). I served as mentor in the Certificate of Teaching Mastery Program offered by Teachers Without Borders.
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