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Dilip Shelar

B.A. & Stenography Dilip is carrying out the duties of Manager, Administrative Office. Responsible for smooth functioning of administration,guest house, transport, student and staff facilitation, event logistics etc. He has spent close to 20 years at Sahyadri. He joined the school as a young person with hardly any experience and has grown with School. He …

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Padmapriya Shirali

Padmapriya Shirali

Padmapriya is presently carrying out the duties of Principal. Padmapriya Shirali wandered into Economics, Geography, Computers, Environmental Studies, Telugu and Mathematics teaching in an adventurous phase of life. She is now firmly rooted in Mathematics education. She has a deep interest in the essential questions of life and is very fond of animals. She thrives …

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Deepa More

Deepa More

BTech, MS, MBA Coordinator, Rural Outreach and School Farms Deepa shares a deep love for trees, plants and all the components of natural world. Deepa is fascinated by the cyclic and inherently regenerative nature of the natural environment and constantly seeks to find applications of those in daily living and industrial applications. Trained as a …

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Dr Pradnya Virnak

Pradnya Virnak

Dr Pradnya Virnak, BAMS Pradnya has been Sahyadri’s Medical Officer for 10 years and a part of the Dining Hall committee and Land Care Group for all the years that she’s been here. She has also taught Middle School for a couple of years and now is teaching junior school students. Currently, she is also …

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Purna Banerjee

Purna Banerjee

Purna Banerjee – B.A. FineArts (Visva-Bharati University – Santiniketan – West Bengal) and  M.A. Fine Arts (Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda). Purna is an Art Teacher who has worked for 26 years in various  residential schools. She loves to work alongside children. She is enamoured by the beautiful, natural surroundings of the Sahyadri School campus. …

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Salim Madhavan

Salim M

Salim Madhavan BFA (College of Fine Arts, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala),  MFA (Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda). Salim teaches art at Sahyadri and truly loves the freedom to experiment with Art education. He loves walking around the Parikrama, the path around the hilltop as it gives a vast view of surrounding landscape. He believes in living by …

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Shailesh Shirali

Shailesh Shirali. B.Sc. Physics Honours, Delhi University; MBA, IIM, Ahmedabad; PhD, University of Texas at Dallas. Shailesh is currently serving as the Director of Sahyadri School. He was born in Karnataka, but grew up in Delhi as his father worked in the central government. After his early schooling and college education in Delhi, he moved …

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Milind More

BTech, MTech Milind has been at Sahyadri for last nine years and looking after administration, finance, infrastructure and rural outreach programs of the school. His tryst with K teachings began with a documentary on K named ‘ A Seer Who Walks Alone’ in 1986. He did his engineering and post graduation in Mechanical/ Marine areas …

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Sudesh Shendage

Sudesh Shendage

Master in Arts ( Geography) Sudesh loves his time in Sahyadri School where he loves the freedom to teach and learn in an environment that resembles a large family, particularly the unique bond teachers share with the students. He also believes in Krishnamuthi’s teachings – “The More you know yourself, the more clarity there is. …

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Jolsy Thomas

Jolsy Thomas

MSc, Bed, PGT Chemistry   Jolsy Akka is the Class Teacher for Class X B.   She is inspired by Oscar Wilde who famously quoted; ” Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth learning can be taught” .   She believes that …

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