Suvro Chatterjee
Remember that while practical education is designed to teach you the how of things - how to solve mathematical problems, how to design landscapes, how to remove tumours, how to get students interested - dreams keep your mind fixed on the why of that lies above and beyond, and makes all the 'hows' meaningful. Never forget to look steadily at the big picture.
- Suvro Chatterjee
The Mastermind and founder of Our Tutorials is Suvro Chatterjee. A voracious reader of almost every subject under the sun, he knows four languages, and his best friends are his numerous students and ex-students, aged between 12 and 51, as well as some very elderly people. He was a journalist for several years, during which he wrote on subjects as diverse as politics and the environment, education and human relationships, drama, science and economics.
He has organised student-readers' circles and long-distance excursions for schoolboys. He has coached examination candidates at all levels from ICSE to M.A. and Ll.B., CAT, GRE and IAS, and worked as a professional quizmaster. He toured the USA as a Rotary International Cultural Exchange scholar. He writes a lot and has been involved for many years in translating great Indian authors into English. His hobbies include swimming, yoga, travel, music, photography and humour. His passions include caring for the environment, both social and physical, and for his family. He has always been deeply interested in religion though he does not belong to any particular church or sect or subscribe to any particular code of rituals. He has had a tough life but he has tried to make a good job of it. At present he considers himself both a happy man and a lucky one, because he has got most of the things that he wanted from life, and accepted the reality that nobody gets everything he wants.
He was a topper in school and secured admission to both medical and engineering colleges with very high ranks in the J.E.E. Later he switched to Economics and earned a university gold medal before deciding he didn't want to make a career in that line – essentially because his personal ideals were such that he had always wanted to be something more than just a professional man. He taught at his alma mater, St Xavier’s School for 14 years. He used to run the school library, in a voluntary capacity as ‘The Keeper of books’. He is very proud of it because through his own effort he had made it extremely student-friendly and encouraged a lot of young people to become keen readers. He quit his job as school teacher and librarian to become a full-time self-employed private tutor.
For more than a decade now he has been flying solo as a private tutor, mentor and ‘go-to-person’. In the town where he lives, he has become known primarily as a teacher of English and student counsellor. Lots of his ex-students keep in close touch with him, even though many are physically far away now, and both students and parents (and even strangers!) come to him for advice regarding all sorts of problems, not just about studies and careers.
His students – old boys and girls - are spread out across the world from Japan, New Zealand, the Netherlands to Canada and the coast of San Francisco and are working and studying in fields as diverse as medicine, the media, economics, chemistry, English, physics, the civil services, film studies, different branches of engineering, designing, math, management, geography, Japanese…and working and studying in places and schools as varied as the Bell Labs, Microsoft, Reuters, Google, Cornell, Rochester, Delft, St. Stephens, The Pioneer and more…
It might interest you to know that he has the distinction of being the only living teacher in the world to have a doctoral dissertation written about him.
He loves his job, and his guiding maxim as a teacher is something that an old and revered teacher taught him a long time ago:
If you want to teach Jack Latin,
you must understand Jack as well as Latin.
He has proven, by his own example, that teaching can be the most rewarding of professions. He now wishes for us to do the same with Suvro's Good Life Tutorials.
Since Suvro Chatterjee already has his hands full with more than 350 students of his own, from classes 8-12, he will not be teaching the regular workshops at our Tutorials right away. However, there is no reason to despair. You can contact us, starting now, through appointments, and attend his special courses, workshops, seminars and in-person counselling (career and personal) sessions through prior enrolment and registration. Don’t miss them.
- Suvro Chatterjee
The Mastermind and founder of Our Tutorials is Suvro Chatterjee. A voracious reader of almost every subject under the sun, he knows four languages, and his best friends are his numerous students and ex-students, aged between 12 and 51, as well as some very elderly people. He was a journalist for several years, during which he wrote on subjects as diverse as politics and the environment, education and human relationships, drama, science and economics.
He has organised student-readers' circles and long-distance excursions for schoolboys. He has coached examination candidates at all levels from ICSE to M.A. and Ll.B., CAT, GRE and IAS, and worked as a professional quizmaster. He toured the USA as a Rotary International Cultural Exchange scholar. He writes a lot and has been involved for many years in translating great Indian authors into English. His hobbies include swimming, yoga, travel, music, photography and humour. His passions include caring for the environment, both social and physical, and for his family. He has always been deeply interested in religion though he does not belong to any particular church or sect or subscribe to any particular code of rituals. He has had a tough life but he has tried to make a good job of it. At present he considers himself both a happy man and a lucky one, because he has got most of the things that he wanted from life, and accepted the reality that nobody gets everything he wants.
He was a topper in school and secured admission to both medical and engineering colleges with very high ranks in the J.E.E. Later he switched to Economics and earned a university gold medal before deciding he didn't want to make a career in that line – essentially because his personal ideals were such that he had always wanted to be something more than just a professional man. He taught at his alma mater, St Xavier’s School for 14 years. He used to run the school library, in a voluntary capacity as ‘The Keeper of books’. He is very proud of it because through his own effort he had made it extremely student-friendly and encouraged a lot of young people to become keen readers. He quit his job as school teacher and librarian to become a full-time self-employed private tutor.
For more than a decade now he has been flying solo as a private tutor, mentor and ‘go-to-person’. In the town where he lives, he has become known primarily as a teacher of English and student counsellor. Lots of his ex-students keep in close touch with him, even though many are physically far away now, and both students and parents (and even strangers!) come to him for advice regarding all sorts of problems, not just about studies and careers.
His students – old boys and girls - are spread out across the world from Japan, New Zealand, the Netherlands to Canada and the coast of San Francisco and are working and studying in fields as diverse as medicine, the media, economics, chemistry, English, physics, the civil services, film studies, different branches of engineering, designing, math, management, geography, Japanese…and working and studying in places and schools as varied as the Bell Labs, Microsoft, Reuters, Google, Cornell, Rochester, Delft, St. Stephens, The Pioneer and more…
It might interest you to know that he has the distinction of being the only living teacher in the world to have a doctoral dissertation written about him.
He loves his job, and his guiding maxim as a teacher is something that an old and revered teacher taught him a long time ago:
If you want to teach Jack Latin,
you must understand Jack as well as Latin.
He has proven, by his own example, that teaching can be the most rewarding of professions. He now wishes for us to do the same with Suvro's Good Life Tutorials.
Since Suvro Chatterjee already has his hands full with more than 350 students of his own, from classes 8-12, he will not be teaching the regular workshops at our Tutorials right away. However, there is no reason to despair. You can contact us, starting now, through appointments, and attend his special courses, workshops, seminars and in-person counselling (career and personal) sessions through prior enrolment and registration. Don’t miss them.