Beyond Inverters: Why I Built GiftedKids.in — India's First Gifted Education Platform

For thirty years I have written about power — inverters, batteries, solar. This note is about something different, and yet, to me, deeply connected: why I have co-founded GiftedKids.in, India's first platform dedicated to identifying and nurturing gifted children.

If you read my work, you know me as the founder of Su-Kam — the man who built a ₹1,200 crore power-electronics company from a one-room office, filed over 100 patents, and sent Indian inverters to more than 90 countries. What you do not know is the part of the story that came before all of that.

I was a government school student in Punjabi Bagh, Delhi. I failed Physics. I repeated my 12th standard. Not one teacher ever looked at me and said, "This boy thinks differently." I carried that quiet confusion for decades — through building a business, through seeing patterns in numbers other people simply did not see, through an internal critic that never let me rest.

At 47, I read a book called Gifted Grownups. For the first time in my life, I cried — because for the first time, I felt seen. The gut feelings that always turned out right. The hunger for knowledge that never switched off. These were not personality quirks. They were the signature of a brain wired differently. I had been a gifted grown-up my whole life, and nobody — least of all me — had a name for it.

The connection to power electronics is not an accident

People ask why an "inverter man" would care about gifted education. To me it is the same instinct. My work has always been about capacity that stays invisible until you build the right system around it. A battery holds enormous energy — but without the right inverter and design, that energy sits there, untapped, and everyone assumes the battery is weak.

A gifted child is exactly that. The capacity is there. But without identification, the right challenge, and an adult who understands them, that potential is not just wasted — it is often punished. That boy in the third row, bored and daydreaming, marked as a behaviour problem — that was me. After thirty years releasing hidden energy in machines, I want to spend this chapter releasing it in children.

What GiftedKids.in is building

India has roughly one crore gifted children in its classrooms right now. Almost none have been identified. Western IQ tests were designed for English-speaking, Western children — they cannot see the gifted child who thinks in Bhojpuri, studies in a Hindi-medium school, and shows genius through mechanical curiosity rather than exam marks.

So at GiftedKids.in we are building India's first observational identification framework — based on how a child engages with the world, not a test score. Alongside it sit an advocacy toolkit for parents, a searchable map of scholarships and programmes, and articles written from inside the Indian reality.

I am not building it alone. My co-founders are Khushboo Sachdev, founder and CEO of Su-vastika and a Government of India patent holder in IoT energy management, and Dr. Inderbir Kaur Sandhu, who holds a PhD in gifted education from the University of Cambridge and has worked with high-ability children since 1996.

If you recognise your own child here

Many of you who read this site are parents and engineers — exactly the kind of people who quietly suspect their child is "not difficult, just different." If your child finishes the chapter before the teacher has finished explaining it, argues with every rule because they need a reason for everything, or scores 65% yet can explain a concept back to you better than the textbook — read our work.

Start with our honest, India-specific guide on the difference between a bright child and a gifted one at GiftedKids.in, or read the full founding story here. It is free, it carries no agenda, and it is built on the same principle this website was built on: tell people the truth, with no bias, so they can make a better decision.

I spent forty-seven years without a word for who I was. No child in India should have to wait that long.

— Kunwer Sachdev, Founder of Su-Kam & Inverter India, Co-founder of GiftedKids.in