About The Hive
Grade XII, age 16-ish. An unfinished painting on my easel, and a comment from my accounts teacher are probably what sowed the first seeds of The Hive. The tutor had been scandalized to see me indulging in artistic projects just before my Board exams. I took his passing rebuke rather meditatively, for his stance towards education, like that of many others of the time, was in direct conflict with my ideologies.
I could never fathom why fine arts, music, or sports were thought of as “extra-curricular.” Why were reading a book under a shaded tree or admiring constellations in the night skies not part of “formal/informal/any kind of education” at all? Wasn’t playing board games a way of understanding math? Wasn’t a multi-sensorial expedition in an unfamiliar terrain an induction to geography - superior to learning from a two-dimensional, amorphous map? Must we learn history through rote
memorization of seemingly inconsequential events in time than through the brightly-illustrated comics of Amar Chitra Katha? Or must we learn history at all? Why not knot-tying, signaling, fire fighting, or anger management?
I could go on, but Albert Einstein has summed up better, “Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything learnt in school.” To me, something seemed fundamentally wrong with our education system. What did it prepare us for? Healthier living? Humane existence? Sustainable future? Savvier consumption? Prudential finances? Clever crisis management? Were these ever the goals of "education"?
I have a huge peeve for wasting half my life learning speculative economic theories and antiquated accounting approaches (thanks to the British education system) than mastering woodworking (often denounced as a blue-collared job), or the Ayurvedic medicine system (fashionably rubbished as ‘unscientific’ compared to western medicine). Twenty-odd years after my schooling, I’m glad that the outlook towards education is changing - albeit, slowly. Frustratingly, a change in our societal mindset is even slower.
This is not a personal vendetta against present-day education, or a digression from what The Hive is about, but a deep-running undercurrent of the holy grail that has led to origins of The Hive: “Refinement/definement (and we could certainly coin such a word!) of modern-day learning.”
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- Lessons : 7
- Duration : 1.5 Month
- Certifications : Yes
- Age : 3 - 7 Years
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Western Vocals - Level 1
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- Age : 8 - 11 Years
- Fee : 15,600
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Steam Play & Learn
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- Age : 3 - 5 Years
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Foundational Art
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- Fee : 5,500
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Stories for Young Learners
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- Duration : 1.5 Month
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- Age : 3 - 6 Years
- Fee : 2,500
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Martial Arts
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- Lessons : 18
- Duration : 3 Month
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- Age : 6 - 15 Years
- Fee : 6,000
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Morning Yoga
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- Lessons : 20
- Duration : 1 Month
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- Age : 10 - 20 Years
- Fee : 2,000
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Kids’ Crafts
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Saturday Game Nights
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Chess & Chill
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- Fee : 300
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Who’s the imposter?
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Heartlore: The Winter Wordsmith Edition
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- Age : 5 - 10 Years
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Public Speaking through Storytelling
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- Age : 8 - 14 Years
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From stories to stage presence – for confident kidsONGOINGAn intense programme across levels 1 & 2
Elephants in Pink Pajamas – Season 8
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- Lessons : 25
- Duration : 6 Month
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- Age : 7 - 15 Years
- Fee : 16,500
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A theatre programme of the children, by the children, for the childrenONGOING
Prep time: Jr. Gamers at Unboxed Game Fest
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- Lessons : 3
- Duration : 1 Month
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- Age : 8 - 15 Years
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Brighter Minds Programme
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- Lessons : 30
- Duration : 30 hours
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- Age : 5 - 15 Years
- Fee : 15,500
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Kruti Shah
A marketing communications professional, Kruti's heart had always been in art. After fifteen years in academics and industry, motherhood forced her to introspect, and Kruti realized that what she loved most was making puppets for her children's birthdays, writing stories of her own, creating Esher-inspired rangolis, and solving logic puzzles to practice math.
An accomplished Bharatnatyam and Kuchipudi dancer, a fervent traveller, a novelist, and a board-game buff, Kruti aspires to kindle the passion of hobbies in like-minded souls.
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