"Humour me," she used to say. "Why don't you share the anecdotes with the rest of us?" she would mock me. Once I shamelessly cracked the best in line joke, and she burst into laughter. "I am glad you're learning satire by practice," she said. She was one of the best I learnt from. On the occasion of Teacher's Day, Friday's Google doodle is here to remind us of our favourite ones. Teachers have always been complex personalities. Inside the wraps of uncanny discipline, power-packed knowledge and 'eye of the eagle', so to speak, even the toughest of them had a warm heart. Google's homepage today explores and celebrates the different personalities of teachers we all loved - more or less. The letters stand for different areas of expertise. The 'G'-we all had one like her-is the 'silent watcher', her spectacles adding more power to her excessively sharp vision. Even the slightest mischief was duly noted. We did her a