I have interacted with hundreds of children while working in my edtech startup, Brightchamps. To say that I have come across some outstanding children would be an understatement. There are kids whose brains have astounded me. They are clearly exceptionally gifted. However, they also managed to pique my curiosity; are geniuses always natural-born and does genius always translate to success?…
I had a childhood that was different from most children. I used to live with my grandfather (Dadu) and not with my parents. My family was of the opinion that I would do better with my grandfather. He was a lifelong teacher, having taught hundreds of children for free for years. A freedom fighter of the independence era, he was…
Seventeen-year-old me had entered the campus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (IIT BHU) with starry eyes and big dreams. It was 2001 and my grandfather in all his wisdom had suggested that I pursue engineering. Computer science was slowly becoming all the rage and that is the field I had selected. There was a simple catch…
Browsing through some books, I came across an interesting quote by the author George Bernard Shaw; “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” Change is definitely the norm of the day. With technology changing the landscape around us, I often wonder about the world that our children will inherit and what we…
