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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
BS-MS IISER Pune Shrinidhi is a Biology and Environmental Science teacher at Sahyadri School. He believes; the role of a teacher is to create an enabling environment in the classroom that is conducive to independent as well as group learning. For that to happen, the school needs to create such an environment for the teacher …
M.A.,B.Ed, Sangeet Prabhakar.Lit Hons.), B.Ed. Lakshman teaches Hindi and Tabla at Sahyadri School.He is inspirited by the incredible relationship between the students and teachers as well as the unique learning environment free from the concept of reward, punishment and thoughtless competition. While Lakshman finds the surrounding nature inspiring, he is immensely motivated by the senior …
