His students, however, are all over India. He springs a question on a student sitting in front of a computer in a New Delhi classroom. The young man squirms as Mr Kanagaraj presses him for an answer via microphone and headphone. “Do you have a short-term memory problem?” demands the teacher, whose image is simulcast on the computer screen from a studio on the IIM-Indore campus.
Fellow students sitting at the same table wear headphones that allow them to hear the rebuke. They chuckle and the young man laughs too.
Most of the 80 students in the class are sitting hundreds of kilometres away from Mr Kanagaraj in cities across India – from Hyderabad in the south to Kolkata in the west.