World-class education. In every Indian language.
Vishva Pathshala translates the world's best computer science, AI, and engineering courses from MIT, Stanford, and beyond into the languages India actually speaks — Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, and more. Every course is free.
Talent is universal. Access to world-class education is not.
96.71% of Indians are most fluent in one of the 22 scheduled (regional) languages, yet engineering, computer science, and AI in India are taught almost entirely in English.
Source: Census of India, Statement 4
In an AICTE survey of 83,195 students, nearly half said they would prefer to study engineering in their regional language, but few resources exist to do so at world-class depth.
Source: AICTE survey (n = 83,195)
Aspiring Minds' National Spoken English report found that roughly three-quarters of Indian engineers don't have the spoken English required for the very jobs their degree was supposed to lead to.
Source: Aspiring Minds, National Spoken English Skills Report
The world's best teachers have already given their lectures away for free. Language is the only wall left.
We take the best courses in the world, and bring them home, in the language you speak.
Course by course, we translate the lectures, subtitles, slides, and notes from openly licensed coursework at MIT OpenCourseWare and beyond, into India's regional languages. It costs nothing, and it never will. It works on whatever phone you already have.
Source
We start with openly licensed coursework from leading global universities, beginning with MIT OpenCourseWare, with more sources to follow. Same professors, same problem sets — just in your language.
Translate
Lectures, transcripts, captions, slides and problem sets are translated end-to-end across text, voice, and subtitle, using India's own language AI. Reviewed by humans who know the subject.
Distribute
Free on the web, built for phones first — most of our students will never touch a laptop. We're also working to bring courses to the apps and organisations students already use.
In five years, every Indian student, in any language and from any village, will sit in the same classroom as a student at MIT.
Two people, one conviction: language should never decide who gets to learn.
Manoj grew up in a small village, where the language you spoke decided which books you could read. He went on to build a career in security and AI governance, and has taught hundreds of students and professionals along the way. Vishva Pathshala is his way of making sure the next student from a village like his doesn't have to learn English before they can learn engineering.
Adya is a Project Coordinator at the Confederation of Indian Industry and holds a Master's in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. She has spent her career working directly with communities, learning why opportunity does or doesn't reach them. At Vishva Pathshala she makes sure translated courses actually work for real students — not just word-for-word, but in context.