“Post-Covid, when children returned to school, I noticed a massive gap not just in learning, but also human values amongst children,” said Prof Akshay Mashelkar.
Mashelkar, interested in generating creative teaching pedagogies, writing scripts for plays, and so on, invested his time and money to start his own research centre.
“For now, she is programmed to teach up to Class 4. Handling her is extremely easy as I understand the difficulties of teachers in rural schools to use technology.”
Shiksha, which was born in early 2022, has visited more than 25 schools and has become a hit among rural pre-primary and primary school children in Karnataka.