Minority education institutions are a dime a dozen in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat, but Dr. Nakadar Institute of Knowledge (Dr. NIK) located in a one-horse town is in a class of its own.
Its sprawling leafy campus, records results in crucial examinations year after year. Up-to-the-minute facilities for down-at-heel children of unlettered parents living in nearby sleepy hamlets, enviable communal concord and enrolment of the highest number of Hindu students for a Muslim-owned school, etc., all set this distinguished phrontistery apart from other ho-hum, run-of-the-mill schools.
Nestled in serene, sylvan and salubrious surroundings and away from the hustle and bustle of urban life, Dr. NIK’s 25-acre, biggest-of-its-kind campus in Nandasan village in Kadi taluka of northern Mehsana district boasts of an expansive, out-of-thisworld playground for its 1,000-odd bright sparks and a....
