I raised two children. They taught me how to teach.
Hi, I'm Alka.
MBA · Taught across schools — from communities of underprivileged children to well-known schools in South Delhi and other cities · 15+ years with children
Long before I was anyone's tutor, I was a mother of two. Two very different children, with two very different ways of figuring out the world.
One of them learned by asking a hundred questions. The other learned by going quiet and watching. Same home, same dinner table — completely different doors into the same idea.
That's where I learned the thing I now build every lesson around: a child doesn't need to be pushed harder. They need to be met where they are.
After graduating with Honours in Science, I went on to do my MBA and spent a few years in the corporate world — until I became a mother. That's when the real learning began. I started growing alongside my children, and as I did, I found my way of giving back: volunteering with NGOs to teach children from underprivileged communities, and becoming a regular parent volunteer at my own children's school — often filling in as a substitute teacher whenever a teacher was on leave.
I love children, and I love teaching. That's why, all these years on, I'm still associated with Mothers International School.
Today I run Aspire & Bloom as a small, deliberately personal practice for children in Grades 2–9 across CBSE, ICSE, IB, IGCSE and International Boards (British and New York). I keep my list short — because I'd like to know your child the way a good aunt would. What lights them up. What makes them shrink. What they're secretly proud of.
My job, as I see it, is simple: to be a patient adult in your child's week, and to gently hand them back the joy of learning — one small, real win at a time.
Every child has the potential. I'd love to help yours bloom.