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Mrs Minakshi Khemka has been teaching social studies in Delhi's prestigious Summer Fields School for the last six years

Mrs Khemka did her schooling from Modern High School, Kolkata, and completed her graduation from Jadavpur University. She is a gold medalist in MA (History) from the same university and did her BEd from St Xavier's College, Kolkata.

She began teaching at Calcutta International School in 1995 after which she taught in Ashok Halls Girls Residential School, Majkhali, Uttaranchal. She moved to Delhi in 1999 where she taught at Tagore International School for some time before joining Summer Fields School as a senior teacher of Social Studies.

Mrs Khemka is a multifaceted personality with an array of awards to her credit. She is the teacher in charge of the school's Interact Club the management of which got her an 'appreciation' award from the Rotary Club of Delhi, South East. She is also actively involved in the school's implementation of the Rain Water Harvesting Project. At the 2004 Tertiary Education and Knowledge Summit, New Delhi, she was awarded the Delhi Environment Education Didactics Award for outstanding contribution in the area of environmental education and training. She has also been awarded a certificate by the National Child Care Association on the UN Universal Children's Day.

Apart from these, Mrs Khemka has served as a master trainer in the, Intel Teach to the Future programme, started by Intel Education, to help teachers promote technology use in the classroom to "develop students' higher order thinking skills and enhance learning".

Mrs Khemka's innovative and interactive style of teaching has won her appreciation from many quarters. For her students, History is not the 'unexciting' subject that many consider it to be. "The thrill of plunging into the past, analysing logically the events that shaped the world, imagining a future-what else could be more interesting?" she reasons.

Mrs Khemka firmly believes that the process of learning and teaching should be invested with passion. If there is no passion no learning would be possible.