PROFILE

Mrs Snehlata Khorana is a senior teacher of Hindi in Delhi Public School, Ghaziabad. She has been with the school for the last 12 years.

She completed her graduation from Agra University. Mrs Khorana is a triple MA having done Masters in Psychology, Public Administration and Hindi. She did her BEd from Annamalai University.

With three subjects to choose from, Mrs Khorana opted to become a teacher of Hindi when she began her career at Venkateshwara Matriculation High Secondary School, Chennai, in 1979. She joined the prestigious Adarsh Vidyalaya, Chennai, shortly afterwards, before moving to Ghaziabad.

Having lived and worked at a place where Hindi was not even a second language, Mrs Khorana was aware of the absence of an elementary book to teach Hindi in Tamil Nadu. "… most of whom I came across, loved Hindi and would even make an effort to speak in the language but didn't know where to go," Mrs Khorana said.

Along with Mrs Nirmal Bhasin, Principal, Adarsh Vidyalaya, Chennai, she wrote a book exclusively for the Tamil-speaking students of the state. Bal Sulabh Mala was published in a bilingual format to help students appreciate the nuances of the Hindi language better.

Apart from writing, which she counts as her passion, Mrs Khorana is deeply into reading, especially books on spirituality. "It keeps one's sanity in difficult times," she reasons.