Teaching the teachers: The Lost And Found Potential Of Gaurav Singh

Guarav Singh found his calling when he took up teaching and set up a foundation to improve the skills of school teachers

“No written word or spoken plea can teach young minds how they ought to be; nor all the books on all the shelves but what the teachers are themselves”
— Rudyard Kipling

A single child with a single parent, growing up in Lucknow in a joint family, Gaurav Singh, now 33, had a linear upbringing that allowed him to look at only two serious career options: an engineer or a doctor. A bright student, academics came easily to the 10-11-year-old who often ranked among the top in his class in school. His mother – who he affectionately refers to