Mrs. Chalil was associated with DBMS as an English teacher. She was also the Vice-Principal of the School from 2006-2010.
Q. How is DBMS different from the other prestigious schools?
A. DBMS is like an extended family and the personal touch among management and faculty and many staff and students makes it unique.
Q. The most significant change in the school over the years?
A. The phenomenal growth in size and achieving the excellence.
Q. Most memorable occasion while being associated with the school?
A. I was about to resign from the job to care for my son, Nikhil who was then just 18 months old. The Management and then Principal, late Mr. R. D’Souza, asked me to bring my son to school and everyone at school would look after him. They promised that he would be given the best care. So I did likewise. As a tiny tot he was most at home in school. This gesture of the management touched the chords of my heart.
Q. Your vision for DBMS Alumni Association?
A. There will be no stopping the march of DBMS towards total excellence and the Alumni association will be a great support to it.
Q. What inspired you to take up teaching as a profession and if you were not a teacher then what would be your alternate profession?
A. It was because I idolized a few teachers in my school and in the college. Somehow I felt that I had to be like them. Love for teaching was a natural one.
I wanted to become an air-hostess; so that I could travel.
Q. Motto of your life and inspiring quote?
A. To stand up for what is right.
“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”
Q. Your message to the present and the ex-students?
A. Excel in whatever you do so that you become an Angel of change.
Interviewed by Swati Ranpara (Batch 2001)