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Dear reader, This Teacher’s Day, we’re celebrating classrooms that stretch far beyond four walls. Some lessons are written not on blackboards, but in gardens, kitchens, farms, and the quiet corners of our everyday lives.

From a professor growing mushrooms to empower women, to a couple who built a forest in their tiny home, to a teacher who spent his savings to transform a neglected school, these are stories of care, courage, and creativity.

Here’s to teachers who keep teaching in the most unexpected ways.

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Haryana Teacher Runs Multi-Lakh Mushroom Biz Alongside Govt Job to Empower Rural Women

In Sonipat, a government college teacher steps out of class and into a high-tech mushroom farm that smells of damp straw and fresh hope. Dr Sonia Dahiya grows 10 tonnes of mushrooms a month, but the real harvest is dignity for rural women who once earned scraps as daily labourers. Now, they work in air-cooled rooms, share chai-pakoras, and dance after shifts. Meet the ‘Mushroom Lady’ who teaches resilience beyond books.

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Ex-Teacher Turns Rooftop Into Dhaba, Serves Traditional Haryanvi Food Cooked Over Fire

You know what this ex-teacher does every morning? She climbs to her rooftop in Gurugram, lights a clay chulha, and slow-cooks saag the way her mother once did. Neighbours started dropping by for rotis, then friends, then strangers. Now her terrace feels less like a home and more like a dhaba where 40 people gather daily — chasing not just food, but the warmth of something they thought was lost. Come see what’s cooking.

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Teacher Couple Turned Their 900 Sq Ft Home Into a Living Forest With 250+ Plants Over 10 Years

Step inside this 900 sq ft home in Kerala and you’ll feel you’ve wandered into a hidden woodland. For a decade, teacher couple Prince and Sonia have let creepers climb, moss balls dangle, fish swim, and butterflies hover until their house turned into a living forest with 250+ plants. What began with a single creeper is now garden therapy, a daily lesson in patience and love. Take a walk through their indoor jungle.

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Teacher Spends Rs 3 Lakh Savings To Transform Govt School, Student Strength Rises by 5X!

When Gopal Bhalwala walked into his government school in Rajgarh, it barely looked like a school: broken walls, no water, hardly 20 children. So he dipped into his own savings (Rs 3 lakh!) and painted, planted, built, and filled shelves with 2,000 books. Today, over 100 children crowd its colourful rooms and leafy garden, some even refusing to go home. Meet the teacher who turned savings into a sanctuary for learning.

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