This year's Teacher's Day witnessed a rare focus because of the Prime Minister's speech. We take this opportunity to go back to the basics to talk to five outstanding teachers. On the key issue, the teaching off and teaching with excellence, Dr Madhav Chavan of Pratham and TP Singh, the principal of a prominent government school in Delhi join this discussion. Veteran educationalist Lata Vaidyanathan, Professor Ashish Nanda, Director of IIM Ahmedabad, formerly of Harvard Law School and Anand Kumar, founder of Super 30, an unparalleled tuition group which trains poor children to get into IIT, join us on the show.