Haresh Chandra

Haresh Chandra was the husband of Gita Chandra, and father of Rani Chandra. He could be pompous, when he was the new head of Park Vale School. When Clyde and Luke first met him he was angry at the standard of their class's behaviour. Rani pretended not to know him as she did not want her friends to know that her father was the Head Teacher. Later when Clyde saw a Clown Haresh did no believe him and thought that he was telling lies. The next day he was puzzled as why students where walking out of school with balloons. He later put it down to a prank organised by Clyde Langer. Originally upset that his daughter had taken part in the 'prank' he was pleased to discover that she was with Luke and Clyde 'studying at the library'. (SJA: Day of the Clown)

In Secrets of the Stars it was revealled that he is a Taurian like Sarah Jane and was one of the few not hypnotised by Trueman (SJA: Secrets of the Stars)

He also fell victim to the Berserker Pendant twice, once when it was used by his daughter Rani and again by Paul Langer after he stole the item from Sarah Jane Smith's attic. When Rani used it on him he performed random, meaningless commands such as hopping on one foot, believing the pendant was a hamster, and doing an impression of a lion, but she quickly stopped and had him forget when it began to scare her (She had almost commanded him to die). When Paul used it on him, he started by jogging on the spot, but was then told to do push ups, which he did. It was this command that almost caused him to die of exhaustion, as no matter what happened around him he refused to stop. (SJA: The Mark of the Berserker)