Indian Female Teachers You Probably Had No Idea About!

There should be no specific day to celebrate the hard work of our teachers and remember them on a specific date, but since the day is dedicated to them, lets take out 5 minutes of our time to read on some of the Indian women, who were and are hell bent on changing attitudes of people about education and women in our country:

Savitribai Jyotirao Phule

She was born on January 3 in 1831 and breathed her last on March 10, 1897. Phule was an Indian social reformer, educationalist and a poet. She is known as the first lady teacher of India. She and her husband, Jyotirao Phule, played an important role in improving women's rights in India during British rule. The couple founded the first girls' school in Pune, which was run by native Indians at Bhide Wada in 1848. Phule worked hard on abolishing discrimination and unfair treatment of people based on caste and gender. She is a very important figure of the social reform movement in Maharashtra.

Meenakshi Gurukkal

She is 74 and probably the oldest woman exponent of Kalaripayattu, the ancient martial arts from Kerala. She has been practising Kalaripayattu for more than than sixty-eight years - training and teaching. She is also the recepient of Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award. Around 150-160 students learn Kalaripayattu in her school named Kadathanadan Kalari Sangam, in Vadakara, near Calicut, Kerala.

Roshni Mukherjee

The passion to teach made Roshni Mukherjee quit her job (multinational company) and start a school in a virtual sense. On her YouTube channel, she teaches Science and Mathematics to thousands of students across the country. She has over 70,000 subscribers. Mukherjee has a Master’s degree in Physics. She launched ExamFear.com, an online platform where she teaches students from classes 9 to 12. Till now, she has made almost 4,000 videos.

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Vimla Kaul

Kaul is 80-year-old and has been teaching children in a village called Madanpur Khadar in Delhi, since the past 20 years. Due to lack of teachers in the village, she brought the students to the nearby area of Sarita Vihar. She faced the issue of infrastructure -- there was no proper building to teach, which made her move from one park to another to conduct classes for them in the city, never giving up. She now finally has a building where she teaches students up till class two.

Asima Chatterjee

Having won many awards for her contribution in the field of education, Chatterjee is best known for her work on vinca alkaloids, now used in cancer drugs, and for the development of anti-convulsives and anti malarial drugs from plants.

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