Educator Par Excellence

May 17, 2012

For Shirin Darasha,school was a democratic republic of talent

Some lives are celebrations; there is a measure of fulfilment in writing about the departed person. Shirin Darasha ,who retired some years ago after a long stint as principal of Mumbai’s J.B. Petit High School for Girls, passed away recently. Thinking about Darasha’s life, one harks back to S. Radhakrishnan’s comment that life is like a game of bridge; you have no control over the cards you are dealt with but you can certainly make a difference with how you play the hand. Darasha played a splendid hand indeed. She inherited a good institution and transformed it into a great one.

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