A neighbourhood helping itself forward

Why this exists

A student in a government PU college and a student in an expensive private one can be equally capable and end up in very different places. What separates them is rarely the syllabus. It is that one of them has an uncle who works in a company and can explain what an interview is, and the other does not.

That gap is not solved by more content. There is more free material online than anyone could work through. It is solved by access to people — somebody who has done the thing, in a room, answering the question you were embarrassed to ask.

So that is what we organise. Sessions where people who do the work explain it to people who have not seen it up close, and then answer questions until the questions run out. Everything else on this site exists to make that happen more often.

How it works

We run sessions across three areas — education, careers and entrepreneurship — with schools, colleges, companies and business associations across Bengaluru. Speakers and mentors give their time. Institutions provide the room. Participants pay nothing.

At the end of every session we ask the same question: is there something you could contribute? Most of the people on our speaker list answered yes to that question once, having arrived as a participant. That cycle is the whole design.