“In Rural Life, a Teacher Is the Name of a Silent Battle”
“In Rural Life , a Teacher Is the Name of a Silent Battle” — A Tribute to the Forgotten Soldiers of Education Twenty-two years have passed. I have been teaching children in a small village school —completely free of cost. No admission fee, no monthly tuition. I even provided the textbooks. For orphaned children, I covered their daily pocket money and extra stationery from my own savings. From the outside, this work may seem simple. But in truth, it is a constant struggle—a war without applause, without rewards, and without recognition. I sacrificed my own comforts. I gave up personal desires. I saved every rupee—sometimes borrowing, sometimes giving from my pocket. Days turned into nights, nights into years, and each year brought new challenges. Walking a rough and thorny path, twenty-two years slipped by. Then one day, I looked at my own innocent child—suffering from a deadly illness—and woke up to a painful truth: I was still s...