Shilipi Chatterjee is in a classroom for the first time. The one with a chalk, blackboard and children sitting in front of her instead of on the other side of a computer screen.
It’s a new experience for the 25-year-old BEd graduate from Delhi, who had only taught in an edtech setup before. It is perhaps not something Chatterjee would have considered as an immediate career step, had she not been laid off in April from her job as a teacher at edtech startup Udayy.
(This story appears in the 01 July, 2022 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)