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Mentor India – Once A Volunteer, Always A Teacher

Mentor India – Once A Volunteer, Always A Teacher

Mentor India, our educational outreach programme, is growing! This month, a great team of volunteer teachers headed out to Paranga Vidya Kendra in Magadi to teach the kids – and ended up learning some important lessons along the way. One of our first-time teachers, Jaishree Garg, has […]

India Inclusion Summit 2016 – Live Blog

India Inclusion Summit 2016 – Live Blog

India Inclusion Summit 2016 begins with a short talk and a musical performance by Ghatam Suresh Vaidyanathan. Coming from a family of musicians, he developed a deep love for music from quite an early age. Since then he has mastered the art of playing the […]

Mentor India 2.0 – Design Thinking With Clay Ganesha

Mentor India 2.0 – Design Thinking With Clay Ganesha

Last Saturday took Mentor India class to a whole new level. After a super Week 4, we were wondering how to make sure that Week 5 tops the high expectations we had set. We came up with ideas, and hoped the execution would go well […]

Mentor India 2.0 – New Techniques For New Skills

Mentor India 2.0 – New Techniques For New Skills

As usual, after a joyous Mentor India 2.0 – Week 3, we had a dramatic Week 4. Why dramatic you ask? Read on. With new volunteers joining us week on week, and some old volunteers making a come-back, Mentor India classes and its students are […]

First LOL Event, First KYS Stall & Lots Of Joy

First LOL Event, First KYS Stall & Lots Of Joy

Unlike the usual wake-up late Sundays, our last one was slightly different. Team KYS was up and about super early, to rush to The Bookworm on Church Street in Bangalore to organize the LOL event we have been harping about. First-Ever KnowYourStar Stall When we […]

What Do Participants Say About Savitha Hosamane’s Classes

What Do Participants Say About Savitha Hosamane’s Classes

We asked one of the many participants from classes conducted by Savitha Hosamane – Madhu, to give us some feedback about Savitha’s work at Hasovan, to give you more information about our event – LOL on 21st August. Here’s what she wrote – Savitha Hosamane […]

Mentor India 2.0 – A Village-Raised Volunteer Teacher’s Views

Mentor India 2.0 – A Village-Raised Volunteer Teacher’s Views

Last week, we told you about our rural session from the eyes of a teacher volunteer. This time, we have another volunteer – Mentor Ambresh, narrating his experience from Week 3 of Mentor India 2.0. He has been a core member of our Mentor India […]

Mentor India Hackathon – Setting Up Computer Lab For Rural Students

Mentor India Hackathon – Setting Up Computer Lab For Rural Students

Internet of Things (IoT) is a game-changer in most fields. Starting from healthcare to retail- it has left no field untouched. So we also started thinking in the lines of how to leverage IoT in our Mentor India program. Applying IoT To Mentor India We […]

LOL – What To Expect From This Joy Workshop?

LOL – What To Expect From This Joy Workshop?

We have been introducing you all to a lot of inspiring people. This time we will not just introduce you, but also put you in touch with this person whose name you don’t often utter, but others do! The most inspiring person in everyone’s life, […]

LOL – A Joy Workshop with Hasovan – Book Now!

LOL – A Joy Workshop with Hasovan – Book Now!

Last week we shared an article called LOL – Laugh Your Heart Out with you and promised that there would be an announcement on Monday. Monday is here and so is the exciting news we have to tell you! LOL – Live. Love. Laugh We, […]

LOL – Laugh Your Heart Out

LOL – Laugh Your Heart Out

“Laughter is an instant vacation.” – Milton Berle Joey was shocked to see a long trail of digits on his telephone bill, until Chandler told him that it was not the bill amount but the telephone number he was looking at! That was one hilarious […]

Mentor India 2.0 – From The Eyes Of A Volunteer Teacher

Mentor India 2.0 – From The Eyes Of A Volunteer Teacher

After a successful Week 1, here’s a small report of how Week 2 of Mentor India 2.0 went- in the words of one of our new mentors, Rashmika Rao, who came along with us as a teacher volunteer for the first time. It’s quite unusual […]


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