Shweta Sastri is executive director of the Bangalore-based K-12 co-educational day/boarding Canadian International School (CIS, estb.1996), ranked among India’s Top 20 and Karnataka’s Top 5 international schools in the EducationWorld India School Rankings 2012. With an aggregate enrolment of 480 students (70 percent are children of expatriates), CIS was the garden city’s first education institution to […]
Mohammed Asif Iqbal is vice president of Welfare Society for the Blind (WSB), Majerhat, Kolkata. An alumnus of St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata and the Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development, Pune, Iqbal lost his vision at age 16. But the disability has driven him to do all he can to make common cause with, […]
Although he is neither a mathematics graduate nor a teacher, TN Mahesh, a business development officer of the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), is adept at creating ‘magic square’ puzzles that have engaged the attention of school students and math lovers in Chennai. According to Mahesh, a magic square is an arrangement of numerals set […]
A professional librarian with a Ph D in the subject awarded by Jiwaji University, Gwalior, Dr Rishi Tiwari has been managing the 35,000-volume library of the Birla Institute of Management Technology, Greater Noida (Bimtech, estb. 1988), since 2004. Simultaneously, with the encouragement of Bimtech, he promotes libraries and library culture in budget schools in the slums […]
A senior member of the Rome-based Congregation of the Mission of Vincent de Paul (estb. 1625), Dr. Jose Aikara, CM, is the newly-elected chairman of the Delhi-based Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) — India’s second largest school-leaving examinations (classes X and XII) certification board. Currently, CISCE has 1,910 of the country’s top-ranked primary-secondary schools […]
Ashish Bhardwaj is regional director (South Asia) of the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), a US-based non-profit organisation of leading business management schools around the world that administers GMAT (Graduate Management Aptitude Test) — the premier standardised test used by over 1,500 B-schools worldwide for admission into their business and management programmes. Conducted simultaneously in […]
Rajeev Pathak (42) is the founder chief executive of Bangalore-based eDreams Edusoft Pvt. Ltd (estb.2010), a company which promises to infuse joy and fun into school curriculums through its innovative Funtoot solution. Developed around artificial intelligence with the intent of improving teaching effectiveness and learning outcomes, Funtoot is a first-of-its-kind digital tutor which is both intelligent […]
Founder chief executive of Attano Media & Education Pvt. Ltd — a Mumbai-based company that creates digital content products for primary and supplementary education — Soumya Banerjee was among the first to discern that in an era where tablets, smartphones and general integration of electronics have become part of everyday life, books need to go digital […]
Ananthapadmanabhan G is the India country head of Amnesty International, the London-based human rights organisation (estb.1961) which investigates and exposes human rights abuses in more than 150 countries and territories around the world, and educates and mobilises public opinion to help transform society and create a safer, more just world.
Newspeg. Last month Amnesy International inaugurated its India […]
Former textile tycoon Gautam and quizmaster wife Ami Goradia promoted Hayagriva Software Pvt. Ltd in 2001, to provide a combination of qualitative content and robust technology for school students. In the initial years, Hayagriva developed specialised tools to help teachers and students create their own question-answer banks to raise general knowledge levels for the purpose of self-assessment.
Marilen Daum is the Delhi-based regional director of library and information services (South Asia) at the Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany. A postgraduate of the Hamburg University of Library Sciences, Daum began her career as a librarian at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics, and has since acquired 25 […]
Rao Kabool and grandson Madan Mohan Singh are staunch believers in the empowerment potential of education, especially of girl children in their native state of Rajasthan. While the elder Singh served in the Indian Army pre-independence and fought in the Indonesia, Burma, Bhutan, Singapore and Cambodia theatres during World War II, the grandson is a successful travel and […]
Sangeeta and Ashutosh Khurana are co-founders of the Delhi-based Mind Edutainment Pvt. Ltd (MEPL, estb.2007) which offers in-school programmes for developing high order thinking skills (HOTS) of K-VIII students. During the past six years since it was founded, MEPL has firmly established its credentials. In 2010, it was acknowledged as one of the country’s top 15 innovative and […]
An alumnus of Kolkata’s St. Xavier’s College and Calcutta University, Nilanjan Dey has emerged as a new force in preschool and primary-secondary education in Kolkata. Three years ago under licence from the SIP Academy Chennai, he promoted SIP Academy, Kolkata as an independent maths learning centre, teaching the subject under the ancient Chinese abacus system. More recently, […]
Chennai-based couple MS Bala and B Amudhavalli are joint promoters of Baala Gurukulam Pvt. Ltd (BG, estb.2009), an education company offering a range of educational and allied services including preschool education, whole-brain development programmes and after-school activities for children. Currently, BG runs four centres of Roots to Wings — a chain of preschools promoted and […]
Determined to give children who have dropped out of school a second chance, in 2008 Kolkata-based Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, a senior Ashoka Fellow and promoter-director of Bandhan Microfinance (estb. 2001), promoted ten free schools in South 24-Parganas in rural West Bengal for underprivileged children. Since then, the number of Bandhan remedial schools has grown to […]
An alumnus of Mayo College, Ajmer with a business administration degree from Denver University, USA, Mumbai-based entrepreneur Chirag Shah and Sudhir Menon, a friend and alumnus of IIM-Bangalore, are co-founders of BEE Interactive Systems Pvt. Ltd (estb. 2010), a company specialising in digital education.
Newspeg. The company’s flagship product, Gototest, a unique online software platform that […]
Amit Sinha is the founder of Jamghat (estb. 2003), a Delhi-based NGO which works to rehabilitate children eking out precarious lives on the streets of Delhi. Currently, Jamghat (‘a gathering’) runs two shelter homes — Aman (for boys) and Aanchal (for girls) — and a daycare centre Angan where 75 street children are provided shelter, […]
Pune-based Milind Shintre (41) is a well-known screenplay writer and film director who has directed and acted in several commercially successful stage plays including Clean Bowled, Poonha Sanshaykallol, Dosh Chandanyacha and Sangeet Nava Bakara. The latter, described as the world’s longest mute play, won a Zee Award for Shintre as writer-director. However, Shintre’s less known passion and […]
Renya Kikuchi and Masao Ishihara are the chairman and president of the Yokohama (Japan)-based Learning Systems Co Ltd (LSC, annual revenue: Rs.20 crore) which designs and markets customised STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths) learning software, robotics kits and IT equipment. In 2010, it registered a subsidiary, LS Creative Learning Pvt. Ltd (LSCL) in Chennai.
An engineering postgraduate and business management graduate of Allahabad University and IASE (Institute of Advanced Studies in Education), Rajasthan, Joy Ghosh is vice president of the Delhi-based Edaxis Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd. Prior to signing up with Edaxis in 2009, he was the Delhi-based deputy general manager of Everonn Systems (India) Ltd (2007-2009).
Mike Clark is managing director of Educational Cultural Exchanges (International) Ltd (ECE), a London-based company which offers educational travel programmes to children and youth worldwide. A business management graduate of Manchester University, Clark promoted Hospitality Line Ltd in 1990 after a 20-year corporate career in marketing and sales. In 2003, he acquired ECE and merged […]
Viral Parekh is the Mumbai-based program director (quality control) and general manager of India operations of the US-based American Institute of Enrichment LLC (AIE, estb.1997), which over the past 15 years has been providing a range of advisory services to over 900 schools in the southern and eastern states of USA.
A highly respected teacher and researcher, A. Thillai Rajan, associate professor of finance, department of management studies at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, believes in constantly changing the departments business management curriculum to connect it with industry. A senior Fulbright fellow at the Centre for Business and Govern-ment at Harvard University (January-June 2010) […]
Sabari Raja is business development manager (India) of the education technology business of Dallas (USA)-based Texas Instruments Inc (TI) — one of the worlds largest semiconductor manufacturers. An electronics engineering graduate of Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Raja pressed on to acquire a Masters from Louisiana State University and an MBA from the Cox School of Business, […]
Robert F. Bruner, dean of the University of Virginias Darden School of Business (DSB) — ranked among the worlds Top 5 B-schools by The Economist (see p.62) — was on his seventh visit to India recently (September), to connect with alumni, prospective students, business, government and academic leaders. In India, DSB boasts a vibrant alumni […]
A commerce postgraduate of Bombay University, Jesus S.M. Lall is chairman and chief executive of the Mumbai-based Univer-sal Education Group (UEG) and founder-trustee of the S.M. Lall Foundation, a charitable trust promoted in 2008.Newspeg. The Universal School, Tardeo, Mumbai, is the first K-V primary in India to introduce digital learning devices for nursery school children. […]
Sir Christian John Storey Bonington is a celebrated British mountaineer, who has the distinction of having conquered Mount Everest four times and 15 other Himalayan peaks. An alumnus of University College School, Hampstead (London) and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Bonington was commissioned into the Royal Tank Regiment in 1956. In 1961, he resigned his […]
B. Jayashankar and Praveen Krishnaiah are co-founders of Bangalore-based NetCracker Online Services Pvt. Ltd (estb.2010), which offers EduNest, a student information system and school admin-istration software to K-12 schools.Newspeg. EduNest will be launched in Delhi on July 1 with Krishnaiah, the companys chief executive moving base to Delhi. EduNest was launched in Bangalore in May […]
In a country where libraries are neither common nor valued, Santhosh Kumar Subramanian and Parul Sarin, imaginative entrepreneurs based in Chennai and Mumbai respectively, have promoted a library with a difference — the online childrens Bambaram MI Toy Library (a venture of Rultosh Edufun Pvt. Ltd) — to make learning enjoyable for children in the […]
Pune-based Ashok M. Salvi is a filmmaker who is acquiring a (Maharashtra) statewide reputation as friend, philosopher and guide of the stressed out students community. A 30-minute documentary Antim Saans (‘last breath) that he has scripted and directed, exhorting youth to persevere, has not only been screened in more than 30 schools and colleges, but […]
R. Sivaraman (36), assistant professor of mathematics at D.G. Vaishnav College, Chennai is the founder of Pie Mathematics Association (PMA), a not-for-profit trust registered in 2007 with the objective of reducing if not eliminating, maths phobia within the students community and public. An executive council member of the Chennai-based Association of Maths Teachers of India, […]
Neelimkumar Khaire is the founder-director of the Pune-based Katraj Snake Park (estb. 1986), which is home to a wide variety of snakes found in cities, fields, water bodies, forests, and hills, including the dreaded king cobra and viper. In 1999, the snake park was merged with the Rajiv Gandhi Zoological Park, a major tourist attraction […]
A former group director of California-based Synopsys Inc (a leading supplier of software, IP and services used in semiconductor design and manufacturing; annual sales: $1.4 billion or Rs.6,300 crore), Prof. Srikanth Jadcherla is now promoter chairman and chief executive of Hyderabad-based Synopsys Electronics Education and Research (SEER) Akademi Pvt. Ltd (estb. 2009). SEER Akademi currently […]
Dr. D. Udaya Kumar (32), assistant professor in the department of design at IIT-Guwahati, is the designer of the new symbol for the Indian Rupee which has won widespread praise in India and abroad for simplicity and imagination.Newspeg. Udaya Kumars representative symbol for the rupee was adjudged the best in a national contest sponsored by […]
Madan Padaki is the co-founder and chief executive of the Bangalore-based MeritTrac Services Pvt. Ltd (estb. 2000) — a skills assessments company. An engineering graduate of Mysore University, Padaki began his career with Wipro in 1995 and later served with Infosys and BFL Software (now Mphasis). In August 2000, he co-promoted MeritTrac with Murlidhar S. […]
Devika Meghe, managing trustee, Meghe Group of Schools (MGS, promoted by Meghe Group of Institutions — estb. 1987 by Congress party leader and Lok Sabha member Datta Meghe) and president of the Radhikabai Meghe Mahila Shikshan Sanstha which launched MGS’ first school, the Vimaltai Tidke Convent, Nagpur in 1987.
Newspeg. Four new pre-schools under MGS’ School of Scholars […]
Krishna Bhupathi, founder-director of the state-of-the-art Bhupathi Tennis Village, Bangalore and Shirley Madhavan Kutty, founder principal of The Magic Years, Delhi, the national capitals top-ranked pre-school (estb.1978).Newspeg. Bhupathi and Kutty are all set to launch Magical Years, a Montessori pre-school sited on the two-acre Bhupathi Tennis Village campus in Kodigehalli, a suburb of Bangalore. The […]
Prajodh Rajan is the Mumbai-based director of EuroKids International Pvt. Ltd (estb. 1998) which has franchised 780 pre-schools under the brand EuroKids countrywide, apart from owning and directly administering 28 EuroKids pre-schools in eight cities across the country.
Newspeg. On January 12, EuroKids celebrated the 10th anniversary of its first pre-school established in Andheri, Mumbai. Significantly, […]
Vidya Shankar, founder and chairperson of Relief Foundation, Chennai. An engineering alumna of Anna University, Shankar worked in the IT industry for two years before quitting her job after the birth of her daughter in 1990. Subsequently she signed up for a postgrad diploma in child rights law at the National Law School of India […]
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