Watch: Indian students in UAE thank teachers with gifts, performances on Indian Teachers’ Day 2022

Watch: Indian students in UAE thank teachers with gifts, performances on Indian Teachers’ Day 2022

Dubai: From carrying out the roles of teachers to showering them with gifts, flowers, plants and performances, students in Indian schools across the UAE celebrated Indian Teachers’ Day on Monday. In India, Teachers’ Day is celebrated on September 5 every year to acknowledge the contribution of teachers in the society. The day marks the birth anniversary of the country’s second President and first Vice President Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Celebrations were galore across various Indian schools in the UAE as students organised various activities to thank their teachers. Special assemblies and senior students donning the roles of teachers for a day were the most common events held in honour of the teachers. While students in many schools brought in small gifts including flowers, plants and eco-friendly bags for their teachers, the students in one Dubai school went a step ahead to buy electrical appliances for their teachers’ staff room. The members of the student council at The Indian Academy Dubai took the initiative of buying a microwave oven and a mini fridge as special gifts for this year’s Teachers’ Day, school head boy Kuleen Mani Tripathi and head girl Irene Elsa Alexander told Gulf News. “We decided to buy these items