Inspired by her School and College teachers, she took up teaching as her profession and has been teaching at DG Vaishnav College, Chennai for the past 17 years, currently heading the Department of Physics. She completed her Doctoral program in Physics, at University of Madras in 2008, under the UGC fellowship. Interested in popularization of Science and Science Communication, she believes science education is not complete unless it reaches the mass. Historical and geographical background of each scientific discovery, invention and technological growth must be taught, for the students to enjoy science and create passion towards it. To create a generation that has faith on Science, mothers must be given confidence on scientific concepts and their fear about learning science should be addressed. For this, she feels there should be more continuous informal ways of updating their scientific knowledge and the role of media in science popularisation is indispensible. She has been reaching the public and young minds through her writings, talks through AIR, dubbings of Science videos into Tamil in simple way.
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