As two boys bend over a generator, Dhanraj Nagar, principal of the Government Senior Secondary School in Pipalda, impatiently paces around the dark room. It’s 30 minutes into Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s televised Teachers’ Day address and there is no sign of electricity being restored or the generator coming to life. Things had been running smooth till about half an hour ago. The school had borrowed a television and set-top box from an adjoining house and even the generator had been checked the previous day. But minutes before the PM’s speech, it all fell apart. Nagar made repeated calls to the executive engineer in the power department, but to no avail and now, the generator isn’t responding. At 10.30 am, electricity is restored and Nagar and the other teachers swiftly assemble the children in the open playground, facing the TV that’s precariously perched on the boundary wall. “A doctor conducts a surgery and newspaper writes about him the next day, but a teacher produces 10 such doctors but no story is written on him,” says the PM as his audience nods in agreement. Students and teachers of this school, 60 km from the coaching hub of Kota, would know that better than anyone else. - See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/notes-from-the-blackboard-a-highway-protest-that-clicked/#sthash.7yFRd1wK.dpuf