Rajiv Gandhi was the youngest Prime Minister of India. He became Prime Minister at the age of 40.

“India is an Old country but a young nation…I am young and I too have a dream, I dream of India Strong, Independent, Self-Reliant and in the front rank of the nations of the world.           Rajiv Gandhi was born on August 20, 1944 in Bombay (Mumbai) in India's most famous political family. His grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru played a stellar role in India's freedom struggle and became independent India's first Prime Minister. His parents lived separately and Rajiv Gandhi was raised at his grandfather's home where her mother lived. Rajeev Gandhi did his schooling from the elite Doon school and then studied at the University of London and at Trinity College, Cambridge in Britain. At Cambridge, Rajiv Ghandi met and fell in love with an Italian student Sonia Maino and they got married in 1969.

Returning to India, Rajeev Ghandi became a commercial airline pilot. His younger brother Sanjay Gandhi entered politics and became a trusted lieutenant of her mother Indira Gandhi. After Sanjay's death in a plane crash in 1980, Rajiv reluctantly entered politics at the instance of his mother. He won his first Lok Sabha election in 1981 from Amethi-the erstwhile constituency of his brother. Soon he became the General Secretary of the Congress Party. After the assassination of Indira Gandhi in October 1984 he became the Prime Minister of India at the age of 40. He called for general elections in 1984 and riding on a massive sympathy wave led Congress to a thumping victory. Congress garnered 80 percent of the seats in the lower house and achieved its greatest victory since independence.

In his initial days as Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi was immensely popular. During his tenure as Prime Minister of India, he brought a certain dynamism to the premiership, which had always been occupied by older people. He is credited with promoting the introduction of computers in India. Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi began leading in a direction significantly different from Indira Gandhi's socialism. He improved bilateral relations with the United States and expanded economic and scientific cooperation. He increased government support for science and technology and associated industries, and reduced import quotas, taxes and tariffs on technology-based industries, especially computers, airlines, defence and telecommunications. He worked towards reducing the red tape in the governance and freeing administration from bureaucratic tangles. In 1986, Rajiv Gandhi announced a national education policy to modernize and expand higher education programs across India.

Lack of Respect to the Teachers from Students at School

A teacher or an educator is a person who provides schooling for his pupils and students, either in formal or informal ways. Usually, the role of a teacher is formal and outgoing, carried out by way of occupation and at a school or other place of formal education. I have seen nowadays, youngsters usually have such a lack of respect towards those individuals we call as teachers. It is even portrayed in many forms of media such as in films or even in cartoons that usually tell us the lives of children and teenagers in schools in which the teachers are portrayed in such antagonistic ways.The lack of respect from the students towards their teacher comes from the media, but I see that media is partially responsible for spreading the negative influences of not seeing teachers in high regard towards the children. I know it's not the children's fault for seeing the teachers as some kind of individuals that shall be antagonized.I won't deny that teachers are not saints. They do mistakes like other people too. It's not even surprising if sometimes, I receive some news that tell us something terrible that has been done by a couple of teachers, like a teacher sexually harassing his students. While I won't deny it that the teachers may do something like that, students and parents must not antagonize the teachers if a couple of us are doing such thing. They must know that teachers, including me are responsible for the building of society in this world. Just ask politicians, or doctors, or even some people with big names, how could they get their fame like they do have now? Were they taught by their parents in their homes? No, the ones who are responsible for giving the people into the roads of success are us; teachers.educationpowersindia.blogspot.in