I’m Anirban – Ani, if you prefer – an engineer by training, but an educator at heart. I live in Kolkata, India, and for over 16 years, I’ve been helping people make peace with math – young students struggling through school and adults trying to rebuild confidence from the ground up.
My teaching journey started long before it became my career. Even as a second-year engineering student at Jadavpur University, I was offered a chance to teach Physics to 11th and 12th graders preparing for the IIT-JEE – one of the toughest entrance tests in the world. I was barely older than my students, but I loved every moment of it.
After completing my post-graduation from IIT Kharagpur, I entered the software industry – because that’s what every engineer did in those days. But a newspaper article changed everything. I read that someone in India was tutoring a student in the US. That single idea stuck with me. THIS, I thought, is what I wanted to do.
A few years later, I joined an online tutoring company and got certified. Their student feedback reports reassured me that they enjoyed the way I explained things. They felt heard, understood, and less anxious about math.
That’s when I realized I was meant to do more than write Java code. I wanted to teach on my own terms.
One of my first independent students was a seventh grader from Vancouver, Washington. His father was worried, his son hated math, and the school year-end exams were approaching.
It didn’t take long to understand the problem: the boy had been told to memorize formulas he couldn’t make sense of. He eventually gave up. So I tore it all down and rebuilt it from scratch – using logic, not memory tricks.
His grades improved. His confidence grew. His dad not only gave me a bonus but said, “You can’t imagine how busy I’ll make you.”
He was right. His wife was a pediatric dentist, and soon, referrals came pouring in from their clinic. That’s how my journey truly began – powered by logic and word-of-mouth. I’m ever grateful to him.
This is the same person whose interview appears on the home page of this website.
Over the years, I’ve taught students from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, the Middle East, India, and more. I’ve helped kids who needed to catch up, others who were aiming high on competitive exams like the SAT and ACT, and even adults returning to math after decades.
One of my current learners is a working professional preparing for the GMAT. She always struggled with math, and group classes moved too fast for her. What she needed wasn’t just content – it was someone to slow down, hold her hand, and rebuild the basics.
We started from scratch, one concept at a time. She’s now confidently preparing to take the GMAT in 2026.
It’s stories like these that remind me: real learning begins when someone meets you where you are.
I don’t just teach math. I teach why math works.
No matter what curriculum a student follows, I focus on building a deep, logical understanding of the topic, so that success in a test becomes just one milestone, not the final goal.
If a concept doesn’t make sense, I help students unlearn, then rebuild from first principles. That’s the core of everything I do.
While I currently offer one-on-one and small group support to students and adult learners, I’m also working on broader ways to share this approach with the world, through videos, lessons, and quizzes.
But that’s for later. For now, if you – or your child – are struggling with math and don’t know where to begin, you’re not alone. And you don’t have to figure it out by yourself.
Thanks for taking the time to read my story. What’s yours?
Whether you’re an anxious parent of a US middle schooler lost in algebra, or preparing for a selective test in Australia or the UK, or a high school student somewhere prepping for the SAT/ACT, or perhaps, an adult looking to conquer your fears before your next big exam – I’d love to hear YOUR story. Let’s talk.