I build places where young children learn by playing, wondering and getting a little messy. I founded Five Little Tales in Hyderabad, and I care about raising kind, curious, confident people, starting from the very first years.
Educator, founder and a believer in the first five years.
Shravika is an early childhood educator and entrepreneur from Hyderabad. She founded Five Little Tales, an early learning centre in Manikonda, for children from five months to six years.
Her work begins with a simple idea: education should light a spark, not fill a container. She builds classrooms that open onto gardens, lets mud kitchens and story circles do some of the teaching, and treats a child's sense of safety as the ground everything else grows from.
Before the school, she was already starting things. As a student at St. Pious X Degree & PG College for Women she designed and launched her own calendar, coached students for the National Youth Parliament, and was selected from India for the first Gandhi-King Scholarly Exchange Initiative. She went on to complete her postgraduate studies at Osmania University.
Light the spark. The children will do the rest.
Play-based, experiential learning for the earliest years.
Five Little Tales Early Learning Centre, Manikonda.
Gandhi-King exchange on peace, nonviolence and leadership.
What she has made, and is still making.
An early learning centre where open-air classrooms, nature and play do the teaching. The campus is treated as a third teacher, and every programme, from infants to kindergarten, is built on experiential learning and emotional safety.
Road No. 18, Alkapur Township, Manikonda, Hyderabad
Self-created and self-designed, launched by her college's Entrepreneurship Development cell in January 2022.
Helped prepare St. Pious X students for the National Youth Parliament competition, where they won second prize.
From St. Pious X and Osmania University to Alabama, and back to a classroom of her own.
Undergraduate years in Hyderabad, and the start of a habit of making things happen.
A self-designed product, launched with the college's Entrepreneurship Development cell.
Coached the college team, which went on to win second prize.
Selected from India for the first cohort of this U.S. State Department programme, hosted by the University of Alabama and Alabama A&M. Young leaders from both countries studied the legacies of Gandhi and Dr. King, with a focus on peace, nonviolence and leadership.
Postgraduate studies at one of India's oldest universities, in her home city of Hyderabad.
Running an early learning centre in Manikonda for children from five months to six years.
People and work Shravika wants you to know about.
The teachers who turn a garden into a classroom every morning, and make every child feel safe enough to be curious.
Young civic leaders from India and the United States working on peace, nonviolence and conflict resolution in their own communities.
Second prize at the National Youth Parliament competition, 2022.
Fellow educators, collaborators, parents and makers she admires. This page grows as she adds them.
For talks, workshops, collaborations, or a conversation about early learning.