An Indian man aged 104 has been teaching the children from his village to read for 75 years - and he's never been paid a penny.
Meet the 104-year-old Indian man who has been teaching local children to read for 75 years
An Indian man aged 104 has been teaching the children from his village to read for 75 years - and he's never been paid a penny.
Nanda Prasty from Bartanda in Jajpur in Odisha state offers his lessons for free to children by day and also to adults at night.
Prasty has been teaching for such a long time that some of his current crop of students are the great-grandchildren of his first pupils.
Prasty developed an interest in teaching after observing many of the local farmers were illiterate and were forced to use thumbprints instead of signing their names.
He started out just teaching locals to write their own names but many of his students wanted to know more and so he began to teach them how to read the Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita.
The village has repeatedly suggested to Prasty that they should build a classroom for him but he has always refused as he says he feels more comfortable imparting his wisdom outside, in the shade of an old tree.