Barefoot teachers, brave new methods

Bharat Ratna, C Subramaniam (https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/chidambaram-subramaniam-7415.php), referred to as Father of Green Revolution in India, made India proficient in wheat production and stopped imports of grains. He was a freedom fighter, Minister of Food and Agriculture, Minister of Finance, Minister of Defence, Governor of Maharashtra and above all a part of the team that drafted the Constitution of India.

Visionary and man of action, C Subramaniam called upon M R Raghavan in 1996, a few years after they started Shikshayatan, to know about their method of teaching and their work. After meeting Raghavan and his daughter Nirupama, he wrote an article in ‘The Hindu’ and how well he drew a plan to improve the state of education in India……