India, Dec. 24 -- For most Indian students, global classrooms remain aspirational-expensive, distant and accessible to only a few. Yet the pressure to compete in an increasingly global world is very real. According to educationist and neuroscientist Anil Srinivasan, a classical musician who is a Sangeet Natak Akademi awardee and a Kalaimamani, Tamil Nadu's highest state honour for the arts, the solution does not lie in sending more students abroad, but in rethinking what learning itself should look like at home.

"If access to global classrooms is limited, then global learning has to come to students where they are," said Anil, founder and CEO of experiential learning platform KRUU, during a wide-ranging conversation. "Otherwise, we are b...