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The people who run it.

One teacher's method, carried into 150 schools by a team that does this because they mean it.

40Trained educators
20University interns
30Back-end team
5,000+Teachers trained
The story behind Knowledge Capsules

The people who lead it.

Rajeev Poddar started it. Aditya Poddar and Neeta Kanoria carry it forward.

Rajeev Poddar
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Rajeev PoddarFounder

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.

Aditya Poddar
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Aditya PoddarCo-founder

The executor. He took one teacher's method into 150 schools, 78 government classrooms and 30,000 children a week, and built a passionate team, operations, partnerships and AI systems underneath it. Passion without desire.

Neeta Kanoria
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Neeta KanoriaDirector, Chief Strategy Officer

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.


Teaching and AI leads

The people in the room.

Nikita
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Nikita ChoudharySchools Learning & Educator Training

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.

CS Nitin Chaturvedi
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Prof. CS Nitin ChaturvediAcademic Director

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.

Shweta Arora Sehgal
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Shweta Arora SehgalAI Workshops & Teacher Training

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.

Somosree Roy
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Somosree RoyLive AI Teaching

A data scientist, formerly with National Geographic and a Visiting Faculty at Christ University. Once Rajeev Sir's student, she now leads KC's live AI teaching.


Content and operations

The people behind every capsule.

Fatma Mumtaz
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Fatma MumtazGraphic Design & Capsule Production

Fatma leads graphic design and the production of every weekly capsule, the slides, posters, one-pagers and graphic videos that ship with each story.

Megha
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MeghaField Educator & Scheduling

A full-time field educator, Megha runs government-school scheduling and the class calendar that keeps 78 classrooms on time.

CA Ankita Agarwal
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CA Ankita AgarwalFinance

A Chartered Accountant, associated with KC for five years, who keeps the trust and company finances in order.


Educators

The people who walk in every week.

Puja Nahata
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Puja NahataEducator, Master Storyteller

Nine years of teaching experience, coaching children in public speaking and creative writing. A Master Storyteller in the KC method.


The team behind them

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.

CSR · Corporates · Foundations

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 partner
Private & institutional schools

Be a school partner

Run KC's weekly capsules, quizzes and AI literacy in your own classrooms, ₹1 to ₹4 per child per week. We bring the content and the educators; you bring the room.

Start a school partnership

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