Madhav A

Hello,

I'm Madhav Ajjampur, a Faculty member at Chanakya University, Bengaluru. I've been a lecturer at Chanakya for a year now and have taught English writing and Spoken English courses to undergraduate students there.

I have a 4-year BA degree in Mathematics from Carleton College, a liberal arts college located in Minnesota, USA. In America, a liberal arts college is a place where you're given the chance to study any subject on offer while majoring in at least one subject; I used the opportunity to take courses in Writing, Philosophy, Economics, History, Sociology, Psychology, English Literature, Cinema Studies, and Anthropology. It's also where I learnt to write (formal) essays about a variety of subjects.

I've signed up on Urban Pro because I'd like to teach English – AT ANY LEVEL TO WHOEVER WANTS TO LEARN IT. I chose Spoken English as my "area", but that's only because I could choose one option; the truth is that I'm just as willing to "take tuitions" in their English curriculum for 5th graders, 8th graders, & 11th graders as I am to teach Spoken English. My deep affection for the English language (a bequeathment from my mother, who's an MLitt in English literature) and language in general is the reason I believe that learning a language means LEARNING IT WELL rather than just functionally or to pass an exam.

For those who're interested, here are some of my accomplishments.

- Got 760/800 in the SAT exam I wrote in 2005 (to go abroad for my UG degree),

- Received one evaluation of 'Excellent' on my Writing Portfolio at Carleton College (that I submitted towards the end of my 2nd year)

- Scored 168/170 in the 'Verbal Reasoning' portion of the GRE exam (which I took in 2013)

- Author of the book, 'The Pollen Waits on Tiptoe', which consists of my English translations of selected Kannada poems by D. R. Bendre, Kannada's greatest lyric poet

- Have had my original English essays, poems, and translations (from Kannada) published in various media, including The Hindu, Firstpost, Bengaluru Review, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Midway Journal, and Modern Poetry in Translation