Hindi teacher with a difference.
Rejected by five MNCs, yet with a desire to create her own identity, she created various milestones in her life. Young Pallavi Singh had come all the way from Delhi to make her living in Mumbai. From teaching 500+ expats/foreigners to being retained by more than a dozen consulates to teach Hindi as a foreign language to their staff and family members, Pallavi has been in the limelight since 2011. She has taught each kind, from Bollywood backdrop dancers and models to students, official diplomats and foreigners married to Indians. Her proud additions to the list are author and historian William Dalrymple, actress Jacqueline Fernandez, singer Natalie Di Luccio and model Lucinda Nicholas. THE TEENAGER TODAY’s Sanchari Banerjee spoke to this young entrepreneur.
TTT: Tell us about your journey; when and how did it start?
Pallavi: The Indian education system is about “stamping” people instead of enabling them. Inevitably, everyone solicits these stamps. I could not make it to one. It was pretty clear that no major corporate was interested in me; neither was my education helping as a catalyst to make way for me. Ironically, I went to the second best Arts college in the whole of India, but that’s exactly what it was — “Arts” not “Tech”. It was crystal clear that I would have to create my own means of employment. And I was not willing to wait until 30 years of age to see any money (Read — payscale(s) in the employment sector in India). Hence this sowed the seed for “teaching Hindi” back in August 2011.
TTT: When we Indians are being influenced by western culture, what influenced you to teach Hindi?
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