New Delhi: A young teacher from Sikkim didn’t let his Covid-19 infection come in the way of his online classes. He continued to share notes with students, making use of his free time to prepare for classes.
Photographs of the man, who wishes not to be identified, have been widely shared on social media. They were reportedly taken by a fellow Covid-19 patient.
The photos are being circulated with a short message that says: “A teacher talking [sic] online class while in Covid hospital. He was fairly in good health, so he didn’t skip his already scheduled class. He makes use of his free time to make notes (which keeps him busy) and sends it to his students. The best part of this is that the children were unaware that their teacher was in hospital while taking the classes…”
The man, who is in his late 20s, is a professor at a government college in Sikkim and was admitted to the hospital on 28 August. He was discharged on 7 September.
“I did not want my students to know that their teacher was a Covid positive patient. I have a reputation for being punctual for my classes, that’s why I carried on… I had already shared the links for the classes. The hospital didn’t have a good internet connection… Hence, I opted to make notes and share it with the students instead,” he said.
After 10-year fruitless wait, Arunachal villagers build their own road
Residents of Arunachal Pradesh’s Darka, the biggest village in West Siang district, have built a motorable road connecting their hamlet to the district headquarters in Aalo.
The stretch, considered a lifeline for the residents of Darka, had been lying in a dilapidated condition for 12 years. The foundation stone for a steel bridge connecting the road was laid in 2001 by then chief minister Mukut Mithi and formally inaugurated by former chief minister Dorjee Khandu in 2008.
But the route had since been lying in a decrepit state, especially with the region witnessing frequent heavy downpours.
Taking matters into their own hands, the residents of Darka started a voluntary cash-and-kind contribution drive to construct the road. The work was divided into stages among the locals. They have constructed concrete pavements, culverts and curves spanning 71.40 meters in the stretch.
Manipur’s ‘missing man’, who returned home after 40 years, ends life
Khomdram Gambhir Singh, an ex-personnel of the Manipur Rifles who was reunited with his family in 2018 after having been missing for 40 years, was found hanging near his house in the state’s Khumbong village.
Known as Manipur’s ‘missing man’, Singh had left home in 1978 and had remained untraced for four decades, until a YouTube video of him singing a Hindi song, shot by street photographer Firoze Shakir, caught the attention of his relatives.
He was brought back from Mumbai to Manipur on 19 April 2018 by a team from Imphal West district’s Patsoi police station.
Khomdram Kulachandra, Gambhir’s younger brother, said he frequently spoke about wanting to go back to Mumbai.
Burmese coins from ‘17th-18th century AD’ found in Assam’s paddy fields
Around a dozen Burmese coins with the image of a mythical deer printed on one side were found in a paddy field in Assam’s Sivasagar district.
The coins, which are 60-65 mm in diameter with a thickness of about 1 mm, are likely to have been issued in the 17th and 18th centuries AD and were in circulation in one of the southern Burmese provinces.
Former president of the Numismatic Society of India S.K. Bose has said that their Burmese script and unusually large size indicate that they were likely to be temple coins, brought by Burmese soldiers with the belief that these sacred coins might protect them in a foreign land.
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