PANDIT DINA NATH HANJOORA

                                         

PANDIT  DINA NATH  HANJOORA ( Principal DAV Higher Secondary School ,Rainawari ) 

A Gandhian, honest to the core, a teacher who left his impression  on any and every person who came across him, Pandit Dina Nath Hanjoora served as outstanding teacher in almost  all districts of the Kashmir valley. Just mention his name and people start recalling him with gratitude and respect. After his retirement, he served as Principal DAV Higher Secondary School, Rainawari in the Kashmir valley.About him Mohammad Sayeed Malik, noted journalist wrote this on my Facebook Timeline :-

" OMG. Had been thirsting to see his picture. The best teacher I could ever think of. It was a privilege to have been his student from 8th to 10th class while Hanjoora Saheb was the headmaster of the then South Kashmir’s only private high school in Shopian(late 1940s to early 50s). I am yet to come across a more revered teacher as he was in South Kashmir. A simple living human being his proficiency, dedication and his outlook was enviable. His eldest son Dr Girdhari Lal Hanjoora is a doctor in the US. His another son’s name has slipped off my memory. Among his other students were Shamim Ahmed Shamim and Mohammed Yousuf Taing. We were contemporaries. Under his leadership, National High School Shopian earned laurels as its students did well in university exams. Matriculation was then a university level examination."

Similar sentiments were expressed by well known poet ,translator, author ,scholar and writer  Prof Shafi Shauq .We were lucky enough to have been his students for one complete year. He once said this to us in the classroom :

“A Flower needs help from the wind to spread its fragrance . Still it spreads in the direction of the wind only. The goodness of a person spreads in all directions without any support or help . Just be good ,the world reciprocates .” 

( Avtar Mota )

                                   

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