A student trio from Seoul, visiting the city for a meeting with the founder of an edutainment platform, was in for a pleasant surprise when they headed to Noorul Islam Urdu School in Govandi last week. “They were keen on visiting a grass-roots school to see how we function here, so I took them to the Urdu school,” said Dr Parag Mankeekar, founder of RealLives. Things soon took an interesting turn when they found out that nearly 20 girls from the school could speak Korean, leading to an intriguing string of events.

Principal interacting with the students. Pic/Shadab Khan