अक्षर अमृत

Sudarshan has a deep interest in understanding how language and culture influence each other. He founded Akshar Amrit by leveraging his extensive expertise in Strategy & Analytics and business development in major corporations, combined with a passion to develop a unique supplemental curriculum based on interdisciplinary research, at the intersection of Science & Math, Language, Arts and culture.

Growing up in Chennai, India, he grew-up in a typical multi-lingual setting that is common in India. He speaks fluent Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and English. Later in US he attended evening Spanish classes (SPAN 101, 102 & 201), and has a knowledge of basic Spanish.

His vision for Akshar-Amrit is to serve as the primary provider of supplemental education for Diaspora Indian children to foster interest in learning language and Indian culture. This interest can be leveraged to serve as educational tools to understand math and science in a practical setting that the students can relate to and appreciate. This would have a doubly beneficial effect of (a) fostering a healthy respect for and appreciation of world cultures and (b) help explain and reinforce math and science concepts in a practical and tangible setting.

Sudarshan has a Bachelors in Engineering degree from VESIT, Mumbai University, India and MBA from Purdue University. Prior to founding Akshara-Amrit, he served as AVP, Strategy & Analytics at HSBC. Prior to HSBC, he was a strategy consultant at Deloitte Consulting and other consulting companies. He has ten years of combined experience in consulting and banking sectors. He lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter.

Sudarshan is interested in exploring the Scientific and Mathematical principles that underlie language and cultural aspects. He founded Akshar Amrit by leveraging his extensive expertise in Strategy & Analytics roles in major corporations, combined with a passion to develop a unique supplemental curriculum based on interdisciplinary research, at the intersection of Science & Math, Language, and Cultural aspects.

 

He grew up in a multi-lingual setting in India and speaks fluent Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and English. His vision for Akshar-Amrit is to serve as the provider of supplemental education for teaching Maths and language. This is done by developing a unique cross disciplinary curriculum to teach Math, Science and Languages using world cultures. This will foster interest in learning about world cultures and develop an appreciation for the same.

 

The benefits of this approach are

 

• It will foster a healthy respect for, and an appreciation of, world cultures
• Explain and reinforce Math and Science concepts in a practical and tangible setting
• Help preserve traditional cultural knowledge by developing teaching tools from them

Sudarshan has a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from Mumbai University and MBA from Purdue University. Prior to founding Akshar-Amrit, he served as AVP, Strategy & Analytics at HSBC. Prior to HSBC, he was a strategy consultant at Deloitte Consulting and other consulting companies. He has ten years of combined experience in consulting and banking sectors. He lives in Chicago with his family.

 

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