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Please enjoy and add to this page (pls. maintain the alphabetical order!). If you happen to be a teacher, kindly take these in the right spirit!

I'll try and fish for some snaps...

Contents 1 Aarti Sriram 2 Annapoorna ma'am 3 Ashokan sir 4 Balaguru 5 Beena Gokhale 6 Chitra Nagesh 7 Govindarajan Sir 8 Kalpagam 9 Kandasamy SM 10 Kumar sir 11 Lakshmi Narasimhan 12 Lalitha Narayanan 13 Malini Pattabhiraman 14 Maya Sivaramakrishnan 15 Mohanambujam ma'am 16 Nandini ma'am 17 Padma Krishnaswamy 18 Padmini Raghavan 19 Padmini Balakrishnan ma'am 20 RV 21 Radha Vishwanathan 22 Saroj Sharma 23 Satish C 24 Satyavati Rao 25 Shanta Sharma 26 Sivagami ma'am 27 Sivasangaran G 28 Sridhar sir 29 Sunita Ganju 30 Surendran Sir 31 Suryanarayanan Sir 32 Uma Suresh 33 Varadharajan Sir 34 Viji Grace 35 Vijayalakshmi 36 Visalakshi V 37 T T Varadakutty

[edit] Aarti Sriram

• Social Science (eeks!), Class X
• Characteristics
  • Always screamed a lot and was well-versed.
  • Had the privelege of parking next to Satish's bike.
  • Currently resides in B'lore.g

[edit] Annapoorna ma'am

• Class X, Maths
• Memorable Quotes
  • "Here! Here! No sub-teachings..."

she hated me n I hated her! WW3 :)

[edit] Ashokan sir

• Our great and ever memorable Engineering Drawing Sir! And yes, E. G., CLass VIII
• School 'Photographer'
• Memorable Quotes
  • Sa waffor doing li' this?
  • Sa buffalo, you're monkey or human being (purportedly!)

• If a teacher is young and beautiful,he combs his hair

(couldnt help myself - have to add these comments below)

• • Buffalo,Buffalo I hit you, you cry, your mother come
  • I have two daughters, both are girls.
  • idu enna auroheadda(aerohead) chaani midhicha madiri irukku...
  • yen da un thala la neeye mannalli potukara??

[edit] Balaguru

• Yoga, P.T., most Classes
• Excellent volleyball skills, wonderful hours watching the mixed team matches
• Quotes
  • "Why is ther a gape men?"

Stand in a straight circle!

That is a khaki pant, but it is not khaki color! (1984)

[edit] Beena Gokhale

• English, Class XII (extra classes!) courtesy xyz 's overdoing.. (I'll not name him here and start controversies)
• Ardent follower and preacher of "Reader's Digest"
• Did great at Girls' Wing and a horrible year at Matric... poor Boys' Wing!

[edit] Chitra Nagesh

• Social Sciences

[edit] Govindarajan Sir

• Drawing, Class VI-X
• Memorable Quotes:
  • "I am not allowed"
  • "Lakshman and Rajan, sit down!" [When the whole class is standing up, punished'
  • Variant: "Only that row - sit down!" [Invariably the one with Lakshman and LNR]
  • "Open the windows, let the atmosphere come in."

Used to take math/ science lessons from his wife! Used to bug me with speech on drawing.

[edit] Kalpagam

• Maths

" beeuttiful problem...beeuuttifull...neelkanttan " "why doesnt you do that..." "what did u had for breakfast." "the class performance is deterioarting i am very unhappy with this class" "do this page from rd sharma" "as you could see.." "hence they are collinear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[edit] Kandasamy SM

• Physics, Class XI (briefly)
• We had a real touching parting with him.. great prof.. missed him later...
• Memorable Quotes (several, in a short span!):
  • "Start!" (Silent prayers, often mistook for starting expts leading to corporal punishment!)
  • "Plane polarized mirror: Sun will look like moon" (Jujuki Chamurai, or Suzuki Samurai)
  • "Matter cannot vanis' in the macroscopic world of physics" (told to Lakshman, when there was a missing gate pass in transit!)
  • "I am Prof SMK, research scholar in Nuclear Physics (PhD 'bar')"!

[edit] Kumar sir

• E. G., Class IX,X
• Memorable Quotes
  • ".........." (inaudible! as always!)
  • carried a half moustache most times

Saw him ripping a guy for touching a bell (when the power was on) - first time seeing him animated - way back in 1996

[edit] Lakshmi Narasimhan

• Sanskrit, Class IX
• Memorable Quotes:
  • "Chocolate Friends!"

[edit] Lalitha Narayanan

• Social Science (eeks!), Class VI, VIII, IX, X
• Individual box quiz!!
• Best example of mispronunciations: 'Gorge' and 'George'
• The first teacher who spoke about Emails, back in the year 1996.

Memorable Event:

• Was giving a speech in the assembly and made a total mess of it. Title: Time and Tide wait for none. The reason given was "Sore Throat". However, handling 1st period History was no problem. Shot a murderous look at G. Prem Chander when he asked about her sore throat.

[edit] Malini Pattabhiraman

• Library ma'am!

[edit] Maya Sivaramakrishnan

• Social Sciences

Best remembered for her smile:)

I saw her in Loyola College n 2001 - she caught me bunking class. She had the same bright smile. Luv U mam!

[edit] Mohanambujam ma'am

• English, all the time
• That apart, used to narrate sequences from Shakespeare and Andal's story in a row
• Memorable Quotes:
  • "I give you full 5 minutes!"
  • "Useless fellow!"
  • "It is not take ya bath, it is takeu bath"
  • "I hereby declare all of you to be useless" *holding her hand up*

[edit] Nandini ma'am

• English, Class IX
• The Class IX Radio Show!

" first teacher to introduce, jam in class....(Just A minute)." " my ( nd i m sur many 's) first crush

[edit] Padma Krishnaswamy

• Science, class VI-VIII

a good teacher she always comes foreward and goes backward while teaching ya a very good teacher who does not mean harm yo other students and always helps the students

[edit] Padmini Raghavan

• XI/XII Maths
• Memorable Quotes
  • "Draw a very very rough sphiyaa..."
  • "puhleeeezzaa" (please!)
• Memorable Event
  • "Powerful slap to Srikumar for inking her Pattu Saree"

• • "I am tooo tiaaard. I will nat be aable to proceeed."

[edit] Padmini Balakrishnan ma'am

• English, Class V, VI, VII and VIII; for some of us, even in Primary!
• English Rough Notebooks... and any number of anecdotes during lessons.. one of our favourite teachers!

[edit] RV

• R Venkataraman
• Science, Class X
• Memorable quotes:
  • Distorted: "off+off=one-and-off"

[edit] Radha Vishwanathan

• Maths
• What a brilliant maths teacher she was!

[edit] Saroj Sharma

• Hindi
• Had incredibly powerful forehand and backhand strokes with a bound textbook, as evidenced by several students always clutching their heads in agony every third langage hindi class.

[edit] Satish C

• Our Principal!
• and oh yeah! General Studies!
• Memorable Quotes
  • "Give a big hand to xyz for his paaarful speech"
  • "Perfect Silence!"
  • "Call your parents!"

Update: Vivek Sexhadri and myself(Swarna Rethas) walking into Hotel Savera on May 23, 2007(yesterday!) for a drink. As we walk in, Vivek quickly spots our own Mr. Satish standing in the lobby waiting for his car. Clad in a white kurta(Rajesh Khanna style) and the usual unmanaged hair both on his head and moustache. As a matter of courtesy, we walk up to him to greet him.

Satish(S): "Hi da, how are you da?" By this time we are shaking/holding hands and his other hand is on my head(??!!). "How is your music coming along da?" Me: Fine Sir. It is going on well. S: "What else are you doing?" Me: Working here, doing so and so, Sir. S: "Do you remember the last words I told you when you left school?" Me: Uh.....yes sir. I had no clue what he was talking about.

Then he realised Vivek was standing right there too. Dont think he quite recogonised him. He still had to talk to him

S: "And you, what are you doing man now?" Vivek: Sir, I am leaving to Dubai soon. Have a job there with this company, Cedar Consulting" S: All the best, both of you. Us: Thanks sir! Escape.....:-) give thunders of applause to xyz

We were later joined by NK and Sandeep Prasad

[edit] Satyavati Rao

• Sanskrit, Class VI, VII, VIII, X
  • Imposition notebooks

[edit] Shanta Sharma

• Hindi, Class VI, IX, X
• Memorable Quotes:
  • "Yeh sab namoone hain" (??)

[edit] Sivagami ma'am

• XI/XII Chemistry
• One of the real jewels in the D.A.V crown. Everyone knows the reason why she left.

[edit] Sivasangaran G

• Maths, VI-IX
• Many of us owe our Math to him! And also the culture of not using short forms!
• Memorable Quotes:
  • "Hozepa [Hozefa], konjam yosi pa..."
  • "[dishum][dishum]" (Chirag getting beaten up...)

[edit] Sridhar sir

• Our favourite class teacher and Chemistry Sir - Class XI and XII (unofficial!)!
• Email: id=sridhar00 & server=gmail.com
• Contact: +91-94442-60057 (or) +91-44-2371-3256
• Memorable Quotes:
  • "Take the precipitate..now eat it (heat) and cool it"
  • "LIZZAN BAAYZZ"
  • "GEDDOUT OF THE GLAZZZ"
  • "ZEE ELL GEERDIVASAN"

[edit] Sunita Ganju

• Hindi, Class VI

[edit] Surendran Sir

• P. T., VI-XII
• Also known as Rambo.
• Memorable Quotes:
  • "Cut your haircut"
  • "DATY PELLOW(dirty fellow"

[edit] Suryanarayanan Sir

• NCC/Physics
• Started almost every sentence with (chay boys)SAY BOYS
• Favorite quotes:
  • "Che wat Che"
  • "Kottaviii"
  • The same in case of flabby students: "gundu kottaviii"
  • "Men may come and men may go (Referring to C.Satish) but say..institution will remain the same"
  • "If you are an NCC candidate, you must be DISTINGIYOOOOOOSED...."
  • "Aanana aarram, koonana kurrram"
  • "Kaanana karupatti, venana vailapodu"
  • "Say...one time okay...che..two time okay .che..but say, every day every time if you do this then nothing can be done"
  • "Say the 2 you go....is also motion"
  • "enna idu kadakalakshemam"
  • "Say if boys like you do like this means there is no yend"
  • ""Bring them to me...i will cane those rascals"
  • "Anti-class elements"
  • "Anna...come here. Arrey are you coming here or shall I come there - you will be given kickings"
• Was known for his knowledge in village sciences and practice of pinching anyone in the tummy
• Also known for his rippling midsection, during NCC parades while shouting out orders.

my dear friend iam here dont look out kannadi will fly! (spectacles will fly! as in when he slaps)

[edit] Uma Suresh

• Sanskrit, Class VI, VII, VIII(?)
• Moral Instruction, Havan Class VI-VIII
• Was Uma Balakrishnan, before she married Suresh sir.

my thick friend i am here.soda vendu aa ana.hey boy come here.i will give u money go buy gundu soda and come.hey leader i wil give u the key,go get the ncc cane

[edit] Varadharajan Sir

• Tamizh
• Amazing person. The tamil batch adored him.
• Sported a monk's halo
• Best known for encouraging students to speak in front of the whole class...often about their birthdays.

Memorable Quotes:

• • "Read in your heart."
  • "No any bargaining business here"
  • " Is this classroom or fish marget.."
  • "Fool"
  • "ozhichiduven!!"
  • "kaiyya katti kanna moodu"
  • "jamaaaai"
  • "both of you three sit together separately!!"

FOLD YOUR HANDS AND CLOSE YOUR EYES IN TAMIL

[edit] Viji Grace

• Hindi, Class VIII (?)
• Black Mark Lists!!

[edit] Vijayalakshmi

• Computer Science, Class VIII(?)
• Popularly known as vegetable cutter for misusing the scale on the students!

[edit] Visalakshi V

• Science
• The most patient of all beings at school, lots of grace and wisdom
• Max. punishment = Stand up
• Was a noted teacher in the biology lab

[edit] T T Varadakutty

• XI/XII Maths
• Memorable Quotes:
  • "Do the 500 problems!"
  • yc = mx + c, the root of several un-provable identities circulated in XI and XII
  • Everybody do the meditation! Girls also! Popularly extended later to include "Pam also!" :D
  • "Darudhara Payale" - if you are lucky enough to get caught :), he will come up to you rant out "Dhardhara Payyalae" holding one your ears -and he will shake himself, than twisiting your ear.
  • "Dhandakarmandharam"
  • "The stick is revolving in front of me saying beatu me, beatu me..."
  • "Drabaai"
  • "Dei, muffu"