People

-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)

Bhandary: enthusiastic public response

Preeti Bhandary is co-founder of Learning Edge India Pvt. Ltd, Bengaluru. The company is franchisor of the 130-strong chain of Little Elly preschools in India and two overseas (Kathmandu, Seattle), which provide early childhood care and education (ECCE) to children aged six months-5-years.

Little Elly’s early childhood curriculum — […]

-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)

Kochhar (left) & Chawla: top level global endorsement

Yogesh Kochhar, an arts and business management postgrad of Punjab University and the American Graduate University (Miami), and Harvansh Chawla, an alum of Delhi University and a Supreme Court lawyer of 25 years standing, are co-founders of the YOL (YourOneLife) Foundation, Dharamshala (YOLF, estb.2019). […]

-Aartie Rau (Mumbai)

Rajpal: committed ECCE professional

Dr. Amrita Rajpal is founder of Edu Learrn Grow (ELG, estb.2019), a Mumbai-based education consultancy which provides well-researched curriculums, teacher development programmes, schools promotion and franchising solutions for the early childhood care and education (ECCE) sector. She is also co-founder of The ABCD Show, an online platform where […]

-Dilip Thakore (Bengaluru)

Schröder (centre) in EW Bangalore office: cutting-edge German technology offer

In the provision of education services and attracting students from abroad, the Federal Republic of Germany (pop. 85 million) — Europe’s wealthiest and most technologically advanced country — is an also-ran despite higher education being provided almost free of charge to all, […]

-Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)

Established in 2002, Nanritam (‘truth’) is a Purulia (West Bengal)-based NGO promoted by Ranjana Sengupta, founder-secretary, and Prof. P.K. Giri, president of Nanritam Society, together with five like-minded professionals — Dr. Shyamal K. Datta, Dr. Osman Ghani, Milika Datta, Ranjit Mukherji, and Dr. Bharati Bakshi with Prof. Kaushik Basu, former World Bank chief […]

-Dipta Joshi (Mumbai)

Mumbai-based sex education evangelist Anju Kish is the founder-director of UnTaboo Education Pvt. Ltd (estb.2015). The company conducts age-appropriate and gender inclusive safety and sex education workshops for children in the 8-18 years age group. Over 30 progressive primary-secondary schools including Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Oberoi International, Mumbai, Mayo College, Ajmer and The […]

-Autar Nehru (Delhi)

Rajesh Panda is founder-managing director of Corporate Gurukul Pte. Ltd (CGPL, estb.2007), a Singapore-based ed-tech company that offers internships and immersive experiential learning programmes to secondary and tertiary education students in partnership with globally top-ranked universities.

Currently, its eight-week online internship and eight-days on-campus programmes in partnership with the National University of Singapore (NUS) […]

-Reshma Ravishanker (Bengaluru)

Aishwarya Rao is the Coimbatore-based director (academics and administration) of the Vivekalaya Group of Institutions (VGI, estb.1989) which owns and manages the CBSE Vivekalaya Matriculation Higher Secondary School (estb.1989), Akshyantra Learning Centre (1990) offering the NIOS curriculum, the Cambridge (UK)-affiliated The Vivekalaya’s Prakriya International School (2012), the NIOS-affiliated Bodhi Academy (2018) and the […]

Aruna Raghuram (Ahmedabad)

A committed proponent of play in early childhood education, Bengaluru-based parenting coach, leadership mentor, educator and edupreneur Preethi Vickram is founder-director of the new-age Cambridge (UK)-affiliated Tapas (derived from the Hindi word tapasya meaning devotion, estb.2020). The school which began operations last June (2021) offers project-based STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and maths) […]

-Dipta Joshi (Mumbai)

Pankaj Sharma is president of the Pune-based Lexicon Group (estd.2006) whose education division has promoted three CBSE-affiliated primary-secondary schools, eight preschools and a therapy centre for special children with an aggregate enrolment of 15,000 students. The Lexicon Group has business interests in health and fitness, lifestyle and media.

Newspeg. The group’s latest initiative launched […]

GRK Reddy is the Chennai-based chairman and managing director of MARG Group (estb. 1994), a thriving infrastructure conglomerate comprising six separate businesses including the 1,000-acre MARG Swarnabhoomi ” a unique complex which integrates education, research and industry into a model people, energy and resource-efficient ecosystem. The Swarnabhoomi Academic Institutions (SAI) trust (estb. 2011) comprise the […]

Raj Mruthyunjayappa is the Bangalore-based managing director (Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East & Africa) of the Boca Raton (USA)-based Campus Management Corporation (CMC) which offers a complete ERP (enterprise resource planning) solution to over 2,000 higher education institutions in 26 countries. In this capacity, Mruthyunjayappa manages CMC’s business in all geographies except the American continents. […]

Sudhanshu Fadnis is the founder-director of Delhi-based KSR Sportseed (KSRS) Pvt. Ltd, a company he promoted in 2012 to offer sports education, training and assessment to schools. A mechanical engineering graduate of MS University, Vadodara and the National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, Fadnis acquired plenty of work experience in blue-chip engineering corporates Larsen […]