The people who lead it.
Rajeev Poddar started it. Aditya Poddar and Neeta Kanoria carry it forward.
Paralysed from the chest down since childhood and schooled only to Class 2, he has taught lakhs of India's children free of cost for over thirty years, from a bed in Kolkata. A three-time Padma Shri nominee. His TEDx talk, The Last Lesson, has been watched 196,000 times over nine years without a single hostile comment.
The executor. He took one teacher's method into nearly 150 schools, including 78 government schools, and 30,000 children a week, and built a passionate team, operations, partnerships and AI systems underneath it. Passion without desire.
First member of the KC Advisory Board. Founder and Principal of Wings Preschool, a Core Committee member of the Early Childhood Association (ECA) and of AWPEI. With over two decades in early childhood education, she opens school doors through her network of principals and leads business development, CSR and the language verticals.
The people in the room.
An economist with an M.Sc. from IGIDR Mumbai and a St Xavier's College Economics Honours, UGC NET qualified and formerly with the RBI. Nikita leads schools learning and educator training, and has been Rajeev Sir's student for fifteen years.
Academic Director and a Company Secretary, and faculty at The Bhawanipur Education Society College. He runs KC's school coordination and quiz classes, and has taught general knowledge and public speaking to thousands of children.
A Learning Experience Designer and Certified Facilitator with over fifteen years in learning and development. Shweta heads KC's AI workshops, teacher training and curriculum building, and specialises in gamification and train-the-trainer programmes.
An AI Trainer and Educator with a Master's in Economics from JNU and Honours in Economics with Statistics and Maths, where she was a college topper and university rank holder. UGC NET qualified, she is Visiting Faculty at Christ University for AI, Behavioural Science and Data Science, a former Senior Data Scientist with National Geographic, and a former consultant with the Government of India. Once Rajeev Sir's student, she now leads KC's live AI teaching.
The people behind every capsule.
Fatma leads graphic design and the production of every weekly capsule, the slides, posters, one-pagers and graphic videos that ship with each story.
A full-time field educator, Megha runs government-school scheduling and the class calendar that keeps 78 government schools on time.
A Chartered Accountant, associated with KC for five years, who keeps the trust and company finances in order.
The people who walk in every week.
Nine years of teaching experience, coaching children in public speaking and creative writing. A Master Storyteller in the KC method.
A bench that grows with demand, not ahead of it.
40 trained educators
On a per-class model, a bench that scales as more schools say yes, every one trained in the KC method by demonstration, not lecture.
20 university interns
From mass communication and journalism, creating content and training as online delivery partners for Canva.
30 back-end team
Remote workers running billing, reminders, follow-ups, intern submissions and assessments, the quiet engine behind the classrooms.
5 across outreach
Outreach, marketing and social media, the people who open the next door and tell the story of the last one.
Every classroom deserves a story worth taking home.
Two ways to partner with us, whichever one describes you.
Be a CSR partner
Fund the KC programme inside government schools against your CSR budget, delivered at rupees per child. Emami, Shyam Steel, Lux and Symphony already do.
Become a CSR partnerBe a school partner
Run KC's weekly capsules, quizzes and AI literacy in your own classrooms, ₹2 per child per week. We bring the content and the educators; you bring the room.
Start a school partnershipPrefer to talk first? WhatsApp us, call +91 97487 35752, or email aditya@knowledgecapsules.co.in