Our son Navvye Anand begins a very important journey of his life. He starts school on March 29, 2010. As a teacher you can influence and mould the lives of the next generation. As a father and a citizen of this beautiful country my request is to:


Teach him to extend courtesy's for small things from opening doors to thanking the taxi driver who drops him home. It seems that courtesies are an endangered species and fast becoming extinct.

Teach him to enjoy flora and fauna in all its forms including the strays outside his home (which he does already) and the sparrows and parrots who no longer visit Delhi but can be brought back with care.

Teach him that he should obey the law of the land not because someone is watching but because we are the watchdogs of the country ourselves.

Teach him to respect his elders, peers and younger ones alike, coz you can only get respect when you give it yourself.


Please let him experiment and make mistakes. Our country badly needs entrepreneurs and the best entrepreneurs are ones who make mistakes early and learn from it.

Let him learn a lot of eclectic disciplines from music, poetry, crafts, debates, physics, chemistry, math, english... because school is the best place for learning a breadth of disciplines. 

A few years back, I went with a delegation to meet President Kalam and he said that "give me a child for the first seven years of his life and then you can have him for the rest of his life". The values that are inculcated in those seven years will stay with him for life. So, after the first three and a half years, we pass the baton to you.  We hope that when he graduates from school he is ready for life.

Anands