Just as the centenary celebrations of the Dadar Athornan Institute (DAI) ended, this Institute, like the rest of the world, too faced the coronavirus pandemic. But even in these trying times, the DAI held up and did relatively well. In the academic year 2020-21, there were two new admissions, one from Bombay and the other from Navsari, taking up the tally of students to 26.
The Institute’s Athornan Mandal management and the parents unanimously decided that it was too risky to keep the students at the Institute, and hence they were sent home just a day before the nationwide lockdown on......