Patna: Thousands of students gathered at Patna’s Bapu Auditorium to celebrate Teachers’ Day with Khan Sir, the popular educationist known for his unique teaching style and mass following.
The packed auditorium echoed with chants of “How should our leader be? Like Khan Sir”, prompting a light-hearted response from the teacher himself. “Brother, everyone here is a teacher,” he told the crowd, before joking that teaching would have been easier if classrooms were as large as the auditorium.
The event also honoured Dr Subrahmanyam Sharma, grandson of former president and educationist Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, in whose memory Teachers’ Day is observed in India. As students lit up their phone flashlights to welcome him, Sharma said he was overwhelmed by the reception. “I don’t know why I have received so much love, but I must have done something good. I have never received love like this outside Bihar, outside Patna,” he said.
Speaking at the ceremony, Khan Sir outlined his vision for a hospital he is building. “In my hospital, the patient will not be called a patient, but a guest. We started the NEET batch so that students can become doctors here and later work in our hospital,” he said. He added that his future efforts would also focus on farmers.
The celebrations, which included cultural performances and speeches, paid tribute to the traditional guru-shishya bond. Students expressed their gratitude to Khan Sir, crediting him for shaping their academic journeys. The event became a major draw in Patna, underlining the educator’s growing influence beyond the classroom.
