Prof DK Joshi and his wife visited the school in Sep 2018. We started by discussing the building design theme being good ventilation. I informed him about the sunlight through skylight problem. He felt that we can have two vertical curtains near the skylight, which will narrow down the lighted portion to a smaller area. We then went … Read more

As a kid Anindya (pronounced Anindo) Mukerji suffered from a degenerative disease. AM grew up in the industrial township of Burnpur, near Asansol, where his dad had got a job in the IISCO steel plant, after finishing an education from Presidency College, Calcutta. Doctors had given AM till 25 to live. He had been awarded … Read more

Ajay Kolhatkar represents a great combination of academics and industry. His academic background spans COEP, SIBM and IIT Bombay SoM. Though he has had a stint with Infosys at their Research and Development division, most of his working life has been spent in the Tata group. At Tatas, he has worked across companies like Tata … Read more

We started with a talk by Ashwini. She has spent 9 years as a counsellor in Kalmadi High School, Kothrud. We asked her to share her counselling experiences. Ashwini talked about a girl, who was in 7th standard when she first met Ashwini. The girl was an adopted kid, who had decided that she did … Read more

Sandeep started by telling us the difference between a counselor and a psychiatrist. A psychiatrist is a medical professional, who heals through medicines. He may have clinical psychologists attached. Counsellors are people who are students of applied psychology. They are not allowed to prescribe medicines. One of the common customers counselors have today are school … Read more

You are a learning-by-doing school. How are parents accepting it? MT: Grades have fallen, so they were concerned. Students are doing well after school. How do we make our school the best in Ambala? Teachers’ behavior depends on the subjects taught. We need each teacher to teach both language and science in lower classes and … Read more

We visited Bharat Vidyalay again in 2020. Had visited the school five years ago with Vijay Chheda and my kids. Now was time for our teachers to visit. Bharat Vidyalay is a live example of what CSR should actually be doing. It’s journey begins before the days of government mandated CSR. It was started by … Read more

We started at 0710 hrs from Arvind ji’s place – and reached Wai at 0910 hrs. Nagesh ji had planned an action packed day. We started by having a dekko at the new math architecture which adorns the entrance to the school. On one side are different types of regular solids – starting from a … Read more

Grade 1/2 We started with a session for grade 1 and 2. Most of the session was in Marathi, and Nidhi observed later that this helped student participation. Apoorva had got along his magic sack. Like Santa Claus, the goodies started coming out. A packing thread, a sewing thread, a jute one and finally craft … Read more

We had an interesting visitor – Brig. HSN Sastry. He retired as Director of DIAT. He has also been a Professor at Pune University. He interacted with senior classes. Classes did not ask any questions. He came in at 1240 – so they were in a mood to leave. Got the teachers to stay back … Read more