Sanskrivo, bringing Indian culture to life

About us

A generation is growing upfluent in everything but this.

सह नाववतु। सह नौ भुनक्तु।May we be protected together, may we be nourished together

A live learning platform for Indian culture: structured courses, graded batches and real teachers, in every time zone a family lives in.

1,000+
families signed up in our first month
22
countries our learners log in from
18
classes across four tracks
4 to 15
age bands, plus dedicated adult batches

01Why we started

Indian culture was always taught by proximity.Then the families moved.

What we teach is the ability to walk into any room, anywhere, and know exactly where you come from.

A child reading aloud from a book with a teacher listening
The hour that used to happen at home
  1. The moment

    It happens on a video call at an awkward hour.

    A grandmother begins a blessing. The child smiles: the smile you use when you have understood nothing. Somebody says he will learn it later.

  2. The cost

    Nobody decides to let it go. It simply goes.

    What is lost is not information. It is a child's certainty about where they come from.

  3. What we did

    We put the teacher back in the room.

    Two fixed 45-minute classes live every week, in a batch small enough that a mispronounced word is corrected on the spot.

  4. Once

    The teacher lived across the courtyard.

    Now

    Eleven time zones away, or ninety minutes across a city.

02What we built

A school, engineered.

Everything an exam-prep platform does for physics, applied to a tradition: a syllabus, graded batches, vetted teachers, and a class that actually happens.

A live Sanskrivo class in progress, the teacher on screen and learners following along

Forty five minutes, one teacher, and a handful of learners who all get to speak.

  • Live, never recorded

    A teacher in the room every session, correcting a word the moment it is said wrongly.

  • Structured courses

    A syllabus and a sequence, so a learner moves forward instead of attending one-off sessions.

  • Graded batches

    4 to 6, 6 to 10, 10 to 15, and adults. The same subject, pitched at the age in the room.

  • Teachers we vet

    Auditioned, trained and observed in class. Nobody teaches here on a claim alone.

  • Every time zone

    Families in 22 countries. Timings are built around the learner, not around Indian hours.

  • One free class first

    A free 30-minute class: meet the teacher and see a real batch before any money is discussed.

Not intensity. Rhythm.

Two live classes45 minutes each, every weekA teacherwho knows the nameA small batchwhere everyone speaksA little practicebetween classes

03What we are here to do

01

Our mission

Put a real teacher in front of every family that wants to keep its culture, whichever country they wake up in.

Structured courses, graded batches, teachers we vet ourselves, and timings that bend around the learner. Built to run at scale without ever stopping being a room where the teacher knows your child by name.

02

Our vision

A generation that can chant with their grandparents and argue with their professors, at home in both rooms.

Culture carried lightly wherever a child goes, not visited once a year at a festival.

विद्या ददाति विनयम्

vidyā dadāti vinayam · Knowledge gives humility

04What we believe

Five things we hold to

Each one has a name in the tradition it comes from. We use it, because that is the language we teach.

  • A living tradition, not a recording

    परम्पराparamparā · an unbroken succession

    A video cannot hear a word said wrongly and correct it. That correction is the whole inheritance.

  • Small enough to be seen

    गुरुकुलम्gurukulam · the teacher's own household

    A child who never speaks in class has not really attended it. Batches stay small enough that everyone is heard, every week.

  • Meaning before memorising

    अर्थःarthaḥ · the meaning of a word

    A shloka learnt without its sense is only a sound. We teach what the words mean, and why they were worth remembering for three thousand years.

  • Roots that travel

    मूलम्mūlam · the root

    Ohio at seven in the morning, Dubai after dinner. Distance is a scheduling problem, not a disqualification.

  • No shame for beginners

    जिज्ञासाjijñāsā · the wish to know

    Many of our adult learners never had the chance. Starting at forty is not late, and nobody here is made to feel it is.

  • None of this is worth much in writing. It is worth something in a class.

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07Careers

Come build this with us.

We hire teachers all year, because every new batch needs one. The rest of these open and close as the platform grows.

6 roles open
A Sanskrivo teacher preparing a lesson at a desk

Small team, real classrooms, and work you can point at.

  • Sanskrit and shloka teachers

    Teaching

    Take live batches in Sanskrit, shlokas and chanting for children or adults.

    Remote, part or full time

    Apply →
  • Storytelling and speech teachers

    Teaching

    Teach the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, public speaking and debate to young learners.

    Remote, part or full time

    Apply →
  • Music and bhajan teachers

    Teaching

    Run bhajan, chanting and performance batches, and get a shy voice singing out loud.

    Remote, part or full time

    Apply →
  • Curriculum associate

    Curriculum

    Build lesson plans and levels with the chief of excellence, and keep every batch on syllabus.

    Bengaluru or remote

    Apply →
  • Operations associate

    Operations

    Own batches, timings across time zones, and the messages families send at midnight.

    Bengaluru

    Apply →
  • Community and growth

    Growth

    Reach the families who want this and have not found us yet, without ever overpromising.

    Bengaluru or remote

    Apply →

Nothing here that fits? Tell us what you teach or what you would run, and we will read it properly.

See all roles and apply →

08Where we are

Built in Bengaluru

Our office is in HSR Layout, Sector 2, and our teachers sit across India. The families we teach are spread over 22 countries, which means our working day is arranged around somebody else's evening more often than our own.

Connecting families everywhere with their Indian roots.

  • India
  • USA
  • UK
  • Canada
  • Australia
  • UAE
  • Singapore
  • Malaysia
  • Nepal
  • Mauritius
  • South Africa
  • New Zealand
  • Qatar
  • Oman
  • Kuwait
  • Netherlands
  • Ireland
  • Switzerland
  • Germany
  • Trinidad & Tobago
  • Fiji
  • Japan
Sanskrivo reception: the wordmark on a lit wall above a wooden console, with the open workspace visible through glass
Reception
The Sanskrivo conference room, a long wooden table under the branded wall
Where classes are planned
The Sanskrivo lounge and reception desk, with seating and plants
Come say namaste

Free trial class

Begin where your family left off.

A free 30-minute class, a real teacher, and no obligation after it. That is the whole offer.

Or call +91 91803 77502 · Mon to Sat, 9am to 8pm IST