Coffee With Hemalatha Thiagarajan! – A Professor
Hi Folks,
Its my pleasure to welcome Hemalatha Thiagarajan, Professor from the Mathematics department of NIT Trichy. She handles maths courses in various departments and also a few computer science courses. She is one of the best faculty members of NIT Trichy.
Its a great honour to have Hemalatha Thiagarajan maam on my blog!
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Coffee With Hemalatha Thiagarajan! – A Professor!
Me: Sundar Rajan G S
HT: Hemalatha Thiagarajan!
Me: Hello Maam, Welcome to Coffee With Sundar! When did you start you career as a teacher? What are the subjects that you teach?
HT: I started way back in 1979 in Loyola College teaching Math to Undergrads. In arts and Science Colleges I have taught mainly “pure” Math like topology, Analysis. In REC/NIT, I have taught a various courses in Math as well as Computer Science. But I really enjoyed teaching courses like probability, Real Analysis, Discrete Mathematics, Linear Algebra and a course on Mathematical Thinking (The last two courses were offered through the IEEE chapter in NIT)and when these are well received by the students( which is only 50% of the time) I am immensely satisfied. On the computer side I have taught data structures, Algorithms, Theory of Formal Languages and Automata. Somehow these are better received by the students than the Math courses.
Me: Maam, you have been at various positions like HOD, Associate Dean etc? How does these roles affect your teaching process?
HT: If you take up admin positions your teaching does get hit. During this time I started using the black board less and relied on pre-prepared lecture material more. I was not happy doing it. These responsibilities do have their compensations though. You are more in touch with the students and get get a lot of feed back from the students. You are also in a position to implement some of your ideas at least.
Me: Some teachers feel that they should reach out to each and every student in the class.. Others feel that they need not wait for everyone to understand? What (and why) is your stance on this topic, which has a wide spectrum of opinions.
HT: I differ in this respect. I had a discussion with a co-teacher once, who said we have to go down to the level of the last student in the class! What about the bright students then? The answer was they can learn on their own. I disagree with this view. Each institute gets students of a specific standard, and the courses must be taught at that level. Further, I have noticed that if the expectation of the teacher is on the higher side, the students put in extra effort and reach at least 50% of that.
I used to be very upset about the fact that students do not put their heart into learning. But after some courses that I attended, I realized that while I can give 100% to what I do, I am in no way responsible if the student does not give his 100% to learning. I am at peace now and I accept the fact that students may have different
priorities.
Me: Do you think teachers should have industrial exposure? Do this help?
HT: In the applied fields like engineering it is a tremendous input. You can easily relate what you teach with what goes on in the industry. In mathematics, in some applied courses like Operations Research, Statistics it is a great help. But the math teachers do not have such an opportunity in India.
Me: What is the most satisfying thing for a teacher? In your opinion, What makes a teacher really happy.. ?
HT: The most satisfying thing is to be remembered by your students, who get in touch with you after a long gap and help you in your activities.
Me: What are your other interests. What do you do in your spare time.
HT: I teach High school students. I am a part of the RMO training group in Chennai. I help disadvantaged students in choosing the right career.
Me: Finally maam, what would you like to say to people who want to take up teaching as a profession?
HT: I don’t find students taking teaching as a profession. It is a last resort if they do not get placed. Whatever be the case, you have to first learn what you are going to teach. Go very well prepared for your classes. If you do not know something accept it and invite the students to get the answers. You can learn from your students no harm.
We see the lack of good teachers affecting the high school students learning process. In no time this will spread to institutes of higher learning.
Sundar, time you took teaching as a good career option seriously.
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Thank you so much for sparing your time for this interview Maam. I surely will become a prof. 3650 days down the line..
I hope we have more and more good teachers like you.�Readers, hope you enjoyed this episode of Coffee With Experts. This episode is the first one from academia. I hope to bring in people from different walks of life, have a chat with them & share the conversation/email over the blog.
Nice one sundar. I always was scared about HT ma’am. And also, i wasn’t fortunate enough to be her student.
Loved this interview. Why don’t you interview our Director?
Very nice! loved it.
Now we have lunch together everytime we’re in the same town. Lol 
@alagu : even I was scared of HT mam once
Thanks a lot for HT maam.. awesome replies… We were the fortunate guys to have HT maam for 2 semesters continuously.. I used to love her scoldings in class in Tamizh and asking us to translate into English for northies…
Note: One of my security questions for some site, where it asks ” Who is your favorite teacher?” answer is ** ****…
@ alagu,
Thanks, Director will come one day!
@ manas,
But as you said, now I talk to her very freely. 
Yeah, even I was afraid of ht maam… in college..
@ harsha,
I remember the scolding in tamil.. It was fun.. We certainly had a great time..
Awesome one.. Really nice replies by Ma’m. I used to be so scared of Ma’m when she she was handling classes for me in the 2nd semester.. i clearly remember – my interaction with Ma’m started only when I asked a question in class, just when she had said “no more time for doubts”… and I had it!.. But then I am really glad to have been fortunate to be in her class atleast for 1 semester.
@ ganapathy..
I know.. I remember that incident.. It was college famous..
teachers really make a difference in your life!…and that teachers do feel happy when we remember them after a long time[last week met my 1st standard class teacher after 15 years:)..she was shocked when i told her that i was her student then]!!!!
@ brocasarea,
I am sure.. she would have been so proud about it.. and she would have told that to a lot of ppl..
I was never HT ma’am’s student so I can probably never relate to “Oh! I was so afraid of ma’am”. I first met her when we visited New Delhi together 15 yrs ago for the Association of Math Teachers of India conference. I was merely a 12th std student and she was a prof from REC and even then she treated me more like a friend than a student. I was fortunate enough to meet her again a few years later at Kancheepuram again for AMTI’s conference and we shared some really interesting discussions on math. The interview brought back all those memories. I hope to see her sometime soon.
@ vidya,
I am quite sure even maam.. will be very happy seeing you..
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Thanks a lot for this blog. I was once student of HT m’am and yes I belong to the category of students who were afraid of her. But she was the best teacher I ever saw.
My deep (and repressed) desire of doing research was infact rekindled after attending her courses in MCA, but unfortunately money paid by software industry was more important at that time!!!!
I admire Suresh S P for taking that bold step of quitting software industry, but I guess all of us (his classmates) knew that Suresh will definitely pursue academic career.
I hope sometime in my life I get to the research path and hopefully meet HT m’am then
Hi Sundar,
I came across your blog when I was searching for Prof. Hemaltha whereabouts. Eventhough I did not attend REC Trichy, she used to teach me IIT entrance Maths for a few months in RSK Hr. Sec school in 1991. There were a handful of students (including her son- my classmate in RSK) who attended her class and I still remember how great was.
She is one of the best teachers I have come across and thanks for publishing this post.
Sundar.. Good Job man… HT mam is my fauvorite teacher in MCA department… I still remember her DS class in the 2nd semester…. I am inspired by her to teach to the students….. Will take the profession very soon… Not only a best teacher but a very brave lady….
That was a good one, Sundar. I was fortunate to attend her classes for 4 yrs in school, from 9th to 12th. Though I graduated from NITT, she didn’t handle any course for me (unfortunately). She is by far the best professor I’ve met. Felt good to read this interview..
Keep it up!
Hi
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Well done, Sundar. I was fortunate enough to attend HT maam’s math classes in my school days.Everyone knows about her teaching, no doubts abt tat.But her role as a Godmother for anyone in need is what makes her the best.Thanks a lot for this interview.
I really felt good, reading it.
For the psychiatry literate, it is not difficult to diagnose the Narcissistic Personality Disorder of HT. She has distorted / destroyed the life of many innocent students. She must be expelled from teaching community.
very true my friend..!!..u have the courage to come out in public forum and disclose the truth.!
She may be considered the best teacher by many, but to me, sorry, she was not (I am giving in past tense, as I don’t know how she is in the class now). She has created fear in many, but in my humble opinion, in addition to fear, she should have created that passion for her students to learn. She was biased to her “favorite” students. She may possess a wealth of knowledge, but may be more suitable for guiding research scholars. In my opinion, her USP is “creating fear in students, screaming at the top of her voice, favoritism, fearless, knowledge repository, unapproachable”. Having said these, I admire her passion for her subjects, commitment towards work, enthusiasm, willingness to help (if and when one becomes closer to her), etc.
She never like research and hence the statement that she is suitable for guiding scholars is wrong. She is also biased towards certain set of students only.
Good Job Sundar
very nice set of questions specially the 3rd one … keep it up.
here is what i have to say by my experience of 2.5 years, under her teaching and administration.
“these are well received by the students( which is only 50% of the time)”
<> i was in other 95%
“You are more in touch with the students and get a lot of feed back from the students. ”
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She could be a good administrator But She is not a good teacher. Teaching is an art, it takes your heart, feelings and empathetic attitude, which she don’t have.
i wish she could have learned from her co-teacher.
Good Job Sundar
very nice set of questions specially the 3rd one … keep it up.
here is what i have to say by my experience of 2.5 years, under her teaching and administration.
“these are well received by the students( which is only 50% of the time)”
]
[actual number of the students able to receive her lectures was where around 3 per 60 students. that comes to 5%. i was in other 95%
“You are more in touch with the students and get a lot of feed back from the students. ”
[[if she could have taken feedback from her students, what she never did because of her feeling of supremacy, mentioned number would have been greater than 5%).. the fact is most of the students were terrified of her...they couldn't speak ... how can some body give her feedback..]]
She could be a good administrator But She is not a good teacher. Teaching is an art, it takes your heart, feelings and empathetic attitude, which she don’t have.
i wish she could have learned from her co-teacher.
Its only 3 yrs back.. I was in the LAB attending DS lectures (all PPTs).. slide after slide pouring in.. nothing went into my head.. but I dare not ask..
The fate of 90% of class was the same.. A few bold ones played criss-cross hidden behind computer monitors..
There was no use trying to even put an effort to understand.. exam questions had no head and tail..
Is this is how a teacher is supposed to be ?
Of course, she had “favorites” who shall disagree to all of these…
Hi Sundar,
Please have tea with SRB sir sometime , i think SRB sir does not like coffee.. May be due to some abstract components..
Then all of us can at least know what is teaching and teacher..
I hope u ll arrange it for us..
Guys, I dont mind criticism. But foul language is not acceptable. Hence I deleted the comments. Please maintain decorum.
She is great in all aspect. ultimate teacher who teaches every thing. she is champion,optimum, optimal ,primo,record-breaking,second-best,superfine,unexcelled, unexceeded, unsurpassed,unsurpassable etc …
Gentle man Sundar, i hope now it will be very charming and pleasurable to you.
I don’t understand your positional meaning of decorum here. But i am sure you must be aware of forum. There should not be a place for foul language i accept, but forum is also having place for criticism. you should be courageous enough to accept it.
i know this post will again hurt you a lot.
I wish you get success in this type of propaganda with support of omnipresent set of sycophants.
i am having a request , don’t call her a teacher, at least pay some respect to true teachers.
Thank you propagandist .
@ anunnay:
You too didn’t changed, just to prove your self odd man out you blabber anything like the crap you wrote here.
I guess you forgot some of your classmate’s suspension, can you remember at that time who help those guys???
Man have courage to say a SPADE to a SPADE, don’t fool yourself. And if you have forgot let me remind you was the one who missed your adorable HT’s most of classes, isn’t it?
I am not claiming here who is winner and looser but all who is hiding their face from truth would be certainly a looser.
Only thing she taught students with real time example is SOLUTION BY ELIMINATION. She is unanimously THE HT, most Hated Teacher of NIT campus, who doesn’t mean to be a faculty.
How long you will delete these comments?
Man if you do hide face from facts you will face more severe criticism.
I am sure about one thing those who is patting their and her’s back either they were not a regular student of her or don’t know her well.
Those guys who used foul language they have seen the optimum of her frustration.
How can you defend a teacher who bet for her follow student’s failure? How you defend a person who never accept his/her fault? Can you honestly and rationally say what can be consequences of teaching something wrong in class?
So is this the task for the minnow students to rectify her mistakes and put their heart to study?
Man be brave. I appreciate you efforts but i will suggest you before interviewing someone get some feedback.
I still remember the year when you won few events in ACUMEN and for your kind information that particular time she did everything to stop it.
So my humble request is don’t be a propagandist.
you know my mail id, you have any doubt about it, feel free to contact me any time.
OMG! Sundar really!!
It seems you’ve carried on your butterring abilities out of NIT along with your grades!!!
Way to go! And with all the butter you seem to have I guess you may not have any difficulty in future either!
sundar, u asshole…. u deleted the posts??
why do u take interviews when u cant listen to the truth. u ass licker… u are gud for nothing !
Hi sundar why U deleted below post , it doesn’t seems to foul at your standards too, please add it : )
Vasudev Udhatya December 1st, 2010 at 3:03 am 22
Most Committed , Straightforward and a no nonsense teacher i have ever met in my life.
Disclaimer: HT ma’am took no classes for our batch but even then I was a favorite of hers.
But I believe a student is not born favorite and it’s only up to the student to become favorite. so i became favorite , very simple
.
Hi Sunder
I don’t know from which batch you are. But why are you deleting the posts. Did we tell you to delete the post of Koffee with HT. Thats the biggest foul language you have used. HT stands for HaTe for me.
I saw the post of Gandhi and it was very good. There was no foul language. Why did you delete it.
Man if you are a man then have the courage of facing it. What you have written is full of lies and nothing else. If you need to delete then please delete the post of yours which many people of NIT might still be reading and following it.
Don’t make your hyper joos go in the wrong direction.
I can only say that if a teacher is not knowledge its fine. But if a teacher is arrogant like HT she is no good. Its better for her to do anything else.
Please don’t delete the posts. Stand upto to post and also tell HT to read it. Someone should tell her the truth about herself.
Now I can give her problems which she can’t fix in her lifetime. The test she carries out should be to know what people know and where people can improve. Its not for humuliating people.
If she can’t respect student then you do think student will respect her. Never and thats the case you are seeing you.
Just take interview of SRB and Michael and see what post you see here. It will be totally different. First find out whose interview you need to take. Then lot of your times would have been saved and you would not be spending time deleting those post.
I want to abuse her but i don’t want to make my mouth dirty.
Regards
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I can’t comment on her teaching skills , as i cant describe a appointment with GOD in a restaurant.
Because neither GOD comes to any restaurant nor she is having any teaching skill .
Disclaimer: – No “foul language” is used in above view .
She is excellent. I like her teaching skills a lot. She has the passion for teaching which is rarely found these days. I am inspired.
Please dont delete my comments.
Anunany who over you are, don’t screw the name
This is my humble request to all Please don’t delete anunay’s post. Please respect his Gratitude towards her (his appreciative mam) .
@ Above – please don’t screw Anunay’s name his name is not “Anunany ” as written by you.
Hi sundar can i have one tea if not coffee with you.
Unfortunately i don’t have “rajan” suffix in name or initial unlike above coffee partners.
I expect you are a good coffer and spacious enough to accommodate me and my views too.
Note – Me can be any one.
A nonsense, hyped teacher that didn’t do more than
irritating her students. She reminds me of the famous quote “What the teacher is, is more important than what he/she teaches.” Albeit personally I have no grudges but she has proved to be a total failure as a teacher. Just a note of advice – Be a good human before a teacher.
PS:: Shun sycophancy
i hate her like anything.. HT is nuthing but a politician having a lobby of few people whom i call A**S lickers..
u do tat and u get grades and everything in her subject. Else she is most horrible and emotionless person. she teaches in “National” institute but enchorages regionalism. in one line. she is arrogant and stubborn teacher.. Sorry politician.
A teacher in class is responsible to create an environment where one can learn not to scare students. HT use to do same she will scare her students more than teaching them how such a teacher could be great. A national institute teacher comes to class and says i will speak in tamil what kind of example are you trying to set madam i could not understand it
least Committed , Most complex and only nonsense teacher / human i have ever met/heard/saw in my life.
An utterly foolish or senseless person.
A person of the lowest order in a former classification of mental retardation.
Is she a teacher there?
I felt she was more interested in Politics, creating troubles for students ( fall to her level best in case S/he not her favorite student)
She does not care how students are doing in their subjects, She is more into knowing what is happening in Hostels, how many groups created, who talk to whom.. and list of non-sense goes on..
In case HT reads it, or her Students want to convey it:
“Please learn something from Mr. SRB and Mr. Michael”
though I am sure her ego won’t allow this
The most Horrible teacher(dictator) of NITT……..
Always used to talk in TAMIL it doesnt matter whether u know it or not. Specially when ur complexion is dark n u dont know TAMIL, Always victim of HT (Hated Teacher)..
Does teacher mean, go to class room n give fundas n give some slangs to student if he/ she is asking some genuine question.
Teaching does not need these kind of qualities. Teacher means how to motivate student not to depress..
I remember one incident..
I was in 2nd sem, one of my classmate made his first program in data structure, it had somehow very large complexity. So she called many people n told see this guy has made program which having complexity n^4.
I dont after that any student will show program to her.
Just see the way of teaching of SRB sir…
Then can feel what a teacher shud be..
she was just a fear of NITT..
Its only 3 yrs back.. I was in the LAB attending DS lectures (all PPTs).. slide after slide pouring in.. nothing went into my head.. but I dare not ask..
The fate of 90% of class was the same.. A few bold ones played criss-cross hidden behind computer monitors..
There was no use trying to even put an effort to understand.. exam questions had no head and tail..
Is this is how a teacher is supposed to be ?
Of course, she had “favorites” who shall disagree to all of these…
For being a teacher one should first become a Good human being. which was not the case with H(…)T(…) …. so lets not insult any real teacher by adding a HT suffix…
Disclaimer: HT ma’am took only 2 or 3 hours of classes for our batch and I was not a favorite of hers.
But I believe a student is not born favorite and it’s only up to the student to become favorite.
I read people uttering words like “National Institute”, “nothing going into my head”, “bold ones playing in the class”. Is this the quality of students one should have in a national institute? If cleanup is required, it has to be across the board.
As she said, “students put in extra effort and reach at least 50% of that”, is what a national institute student should do. I still remember what she taught us in those 2-3 hours and it recently helped me.
I too disagree with HT’s way of teaching, but I also disagree with loser’s talk about not being a favorite.
@above
Whoever you are…
It is better to be a loser than a boot/a** licker. That’s a fact no one is born favorite but people with some self respect will rather prefer to be unfavored in the book of your so called “HT” Ma’am. Had you attended a whole semester you would have been planning to ……
It seems that you were hurt more than her(assuming she read all the comments ) by views put above by non-sychophants unlike you.
This is so funny!
I happen to belong to the same batch as Mr. Garg, where HT took one single class of 3 hours for the whole semester! And that was for AI. In case Mr. Garg [the self-proclaimed Mr. Winner, as others seem to be whining losers] still remember and applied what she taught that day, I pity your employer, because what she taught that day was wrong! She had done a wrong assignment somewhere in middle and after I pointed out that mistake she started shouting! Nevertheless, she never ended up proving it correctly!
I’ve seen both the sides of HT being one of the favorites and later probably the most despised! While I was a favorite, I’ve enjoyed her scooty rides (and not just in campus even outside), bhajjis at snacky, home visits, exemptions from attending classes, proximity with all deans and director (at one time everyone knew me by name), and possibly a few grade points!
And when the coin flipped, it was the opposite of everything, to the extent that allegedly she even had a bet with one of my classmates that I’d never get an on campus offer.
I can’t comment on her teaching skills (but I have serious doubts that she has any), otherwise she’s highly temperamental, judgmental and too proud to accept her mistakes. She is a failed administrator and as many have mentioned she is very high on favoritism and regionalism!
I agree to one of the above comments
>> As she said, “students put in extra effort and reach at least 50% of that”, is what a national institute student should do.
But I would also like to bring to the attention of the author that this was achieved in Michael Arock Sir’s class where every student knew very well that the more effort they put in the better were the rewards.. no favouritism whatever…
In HTs class, even if you are good with your academics, rewards go to the select favorites. Why shall one put his efforts then ?
Hi all,
Giving all due respect to great mam and you people i will suggest one thing.
I think now we had enough coffee.
I am proposing to have a “Sapad (Lunch or dinner) with HT” .
All people who will comment on that post will be given one Bhajji each.
Please come up with your suggestion .
Waiting for your reply.
I am very Hungry for different views.
I want 2 bhajjis(appreciation), i am very very hungry… I assure you I will post big comments but I want two bhajjis with coconut chattni(Yummi…) for each post.
Where are people?
i m feeling proud that i m being taught by hemalatha maam and ill surely try my best
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. i m feeling proud that i m being taught by hemalatha maam and i am having snap with HT MAM during data mining workshop,really feel proud.
HT Mam, really proud of you. Keep up the good work.
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Hi Sundar,
I have mixed feelings about this. Her enthusiasm and passion for the subject is simply amazing. But her philosophy when it comes to teaching is something that seems totally flawed. Even in the primary sense of imparting education. A true teacher should kindle the curiosity of students such that the learning transcends beyond the four walls of classroom.
I was mediocre when it came to mathematics. Was always kept on the edge of the seat in all her classes because she would choose really tough problems to solve in the classes. But there were not many instances where your imagination or creativity was demanded. It was more of formulas and theories. Whether it is good or not, I did not know at that time. But now I am very confident that anything that doesn’t challenge one’s imagination is a waste of time. Because, the theories and formulas that we commit to memory at that time doesn’t last. Durability is missing.
Her test papers were sort of a challenge. I fail to understand the logic of it. Every year, the number of students failing her paper would be much higher than any other paper. What was the point of it? We all know that she is very good at mathematics. We all know that there were few in the class who would rank in the top 10. The bright student would work hard anyway. You were a bright student. Tell me if there was any difference in your preparation levels for Data Structures and Discrete Math. Given that we follow relative grading, there was no need on her part to set the question paper that difficult. Was it just to prove a point that there were so many low caliber students?
I have no qualms about teachers having favorite students. It is quite inevitable. The fact that outside the classrooms she took her favorite students to informal lunch sessions, scooty rides, etc. doesn’t sound quite right to me. A true teacher should always aim to push the thinking limits of students. If she had given you guys extra assignments which were even tougher and outside the scope of syllabus, I can understand that she wants more from her brighter students. If she had influenced the system to make you guys take more of her courses, then it would have made sense. But sadly, that doesn’t seem to be the case.
At the end of day, we need to ask ourselves what yardstick is to be used to measure a teacher’s success. The fundamental requirement of a teacher is to have great knowledge of the subject. She raises the bar there. But that isn’t sufficient. Also, this has to be seen in the light that the general bar of faculty in NITT, unfortunately, is low (atleast at that time). So obviously, first bench students liked her, a lot. But imagine the case where every other teacher is as knowledgeable as her. Would you still have the same respect for her? Are scooty rides and lunches the only difference? She needs to ask herself some important questions like “what is the purpose of teaching”.
Teaching in college is lot different from teaching students for IIT JEE, where formulas and techniques rule. It is unwise to follow the same style everywhere.
The are quite a few teachers that I have great respect for. But she is not one of them. Her being intolerant towards mediocre kids and the public display of such harshness is so distasteful. Perhaps, I would have liked her if everyone in the classroom was as talented as Sundar was. And perhaps, that would have been like a dream come true for her as well. She would have been a happy teacher then. And that could have made all the difference. But not always is sprint and not always does the sun shine.
I wish she were a great teacher.
HT is a totatlly stuck up bitch! Looks like she did not change much even after 20 years. Hope she rots in hell.
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