Dr S Radhakrishnan’s Birth Anniversary Is Celebrated As National Teachers’ Day In India

India celebrates ‘the 5th of September every year as Teachers’ day in the honor of its second President Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. He was born on September 5, 1888, in Tiruttani, into a South Indian Telugu-speaking Brahmin family. His father Sitaramayya and his mother Kondamma were mainly from Sarvepalli village and had shifted to Tiruttani 10 years before he was born.