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Every month, a researcher or practitioner sits down with a room full of curious students on Zoom and spends 90 minutes making an idea come alive. No textbooks, no syllabus pressure – just a physicist explaining why gravity is strange, or an ecologist asking whether we can watch evolution happen in real time, or a software engineer exploring why bullets, cheetahs, and sports cars are all shaped the way they are. These sessions are for students aged 10 and up (most are 12+), and for any adult who remembers what it felt like to be genuinely curious about something.
30+
Masterclasses since January 2024
3,000+
Student registrations
18
Educators from research, industry, and the arts
10+
Disciplines: from astrophysics to financial literacy
Coming Up
Masterclass
Weaponizing Geography: How Terrain Shapes War and Power
Why can a narrow mountain pass stop a much larger army? How can a hill, a river, an island, or a sea lane change the course of history? In this session, Sriram Naganathan shows students how geography can become a strategic weapon, from Thermopylae and Hannibal to World War II island-hopping and modern choke points like the Strait of Hormuz.
For students aged 12+. Curious adults are welcome too.
Next Masterclass
6 June 2026
6:30-8:00 PM IST
Also Running
Climate, Ecology & Us
A bimonthly series grounded in wonder, systems thinking, and story, led by Dr. Siddharth Bharath. Open to students grade 6+, older students, and adults.
Also Running
Many Roads: Exploring Careers
A monthly career conversation series with people who built careers worth talking about. For students aged 10-14 and their families.
See What a Masterclass Looks Like
A few sessions that show the range — watch the recordings and get a feel for what happens here.
Our Educators
The People Behind the Sessions
Our educators are working researchers, scientists, engineers, and writers who teach because they love it. They come from institutions like IISc, IIT Madras, UC Berkeley, NVIDIA, and Bell Labs — and they know how to make hard ideas land with a twelve-year-old.
Prof. Utpal Chattopadhyay
PhD Physics, SUNY Stony Brook; ex-Bell Labs & Motorola; teaches at ISI Bangalore
Dr. Sukanya Sinha
PhD Theoretical Physics, U of Maryland; Visiting Scientist, ISI Bangalore; award-winning science writer
Dr. Goldy Yadav
PhD Cognitive Science, IIT Gandhinagar; Fulbright Fellow at NIH; postdoc at UC Louvain
Ashish Kulkarni
PhD Economics, GIPE; teaches at Gokhale Institute; blogs daily at econforeverybody.com
Navin Kabra
PhD Computer Science, UW-Madison; CTO, ReliScore; 18 US Patents; IIT Bombay
Dr. Radha Gopalan
PhD Environmental Science, IIT Bombay; Visiting Faculty, Azim Premji University
Dr. Anusha Krishnan
PhD Ecology, IISc Bangalore; popular science writer; 30+ courses at universities
Karthik Raghavan Ravi
Director, Compute System Software, NVIDIA; MS IIT Madras
Ram Narasimhan
PhD Operations Research, SUNY Buffalo; Principal Data Scientist, GE Vernova
Dr. Siddharth Bharath
PhD Ecology, U of Minnesota; educator and Gifted World community manager
Dr. Krithika Mohan
PhD Neuroscience; researcher at UC Berkeley
Saurabh Mahajan
PhD computational genomics; teaches biology at universities in Bangalore
Rupin Chheda
Engineering; ex-AVP WhiteHatJr; leads STREAM at Kanakia Educational Institutions
Muralidharan
B.E. IIT Madras; 20+ years in social sector; handicraft enterprise and science education
Kanchana Suryakumar
BITS Pilani & TISS Mumbai; 10+ years math teaching
Ramya Ramesh
Architect; MSc UCL London; Chevening Scholar; co-founder The Design Toolbox
Sriram Naganathan
Reuters Fellow, Oxford; ex-Business India; teaches History
Meeta Kabra
CA; MBA Finance & Entrepreneurship; financial literacy educator
How It Works
Free and open
All masterclasses are free for Gifted World members.
Live on Zoom
90-minute sessions, usually on Saturday afternoons (IST).
Ages 10–16+
Most sessions are designed for ages 12 and up.
Recordings on YouTube
Missed a session? Most are available to watch anytime.
Also from Gifted World
We also run hands-on student workshops (2 hours, smaller groups, building a specific skill) and parent hours. These have their own pages — Student Workshops · Parent Hours
Want to be there for the next one?
We run a new masterclass every month. Join Gifted World to get notified when sessions are announced — and to access recordings, workshops, and a community of students who like asking questions.