Founding Members
Shalini Sunderlal | Principal/Director
Shalini Sunderlal is a Curriculum Designer & Education Facilitator in Early Learning with over 20 years of dedication to early childhood education. She is skilled in integrating Montessori methods with PYP principles. She designs lesson plans and curriculum content that place Montessori at the core of learning, while weaving in PYP’s inquiry‑based approach to spark curiosity and deeper exploration among children. A graduate of Loreto College, Kolkata, she completed her Montessori training at the London Montessori Center in Kolkata and advanced Elementary Montessori training at the North American Montessori Center in Canada. These experiences remain invaluable, shaping her professional trajectory and enriching her expertise in early childhood education.. With a deep passion for academic content development, Shalini serves as the Director of Academics at Busy Ants where she oversees curriculum design and implementation. Her contributions to education have been recognized with the prestigious APARAJITA FICCI ‘Best Educator’ Award. Beyond academics, Shalini is a passionate photographer who also enjoys doodling and sketching. These creative pursuits not only bring balance to her professional and personal life but also inspire her curriculum design for preschoolers—where simple scribbles and sketches are transformed into engaging learning experiences.
Anita Alimchandani | Principal/Director
Anita Alimchandani is a dedicated and resourceful professional with deep expertise in Early Childhood Education. As the Principal of Busy Ants, she is actively involved in every aspect of school life—program development, budgeting and forecasting, team building, and designing thematic units that integrate the arts. She oversees, plans, and guides the overall activities of the school with vision and precision. Blessed with a keen eye for aesthetics, Anita has created beautiful, child‑friendly learning environments . She graduated from Elphinstone College, Mumbai, with a background in Economics, Mathematics, and Statistics. Her passions include interiors, traveling, food, and cycling—interests that bring creativity and balance to her professional journey.
Advisory Board Members
Bindu Srinivasan | Managing Director – Orangerie Advertising JLT
Bindu has a Masters Degree in Political Science from Kolkata University and a Masters degree in Social Communications Media from Sophia Polytechnic in Mumbai.
She started her career in the production of audiovisuals with Imitiaz Dharkar and was involved with commercial as well as social and non-commercial projects. Moving from there she worked as a lecturer in Sophia Polytechnic and produced along with students a body of films for Special Needs Children and the Blind School. In addition to this Bindu worked for BBC TV as research assistance and production manager for a number of BBC’s landmark documentary films shot in India.
She then moved on to become Assistant Director at Haimark Films working on mainly commercial films for multinational clients. From there on she moved to the UAE in 1990 and worked in mainstream advertising agencies.
In 1999 Bindu brought a team of advertising professionals to form Orangerie advertising on the back of her experience in the UAE and a thriving career in business development and growth. She managed a varied clientele and spearheaded strategic and creative to effective results. With immense industry experience in the GCC region, she witnessed the market evolve from its nascent phase to its present form competing with the world’s best. She is currently the Managing Director at Orangerie and continues to spearhead its growth and development.
Her heart though remains in India and she is involved with special needs education and champions the cause of education for the girl child and hopes to return back to India to work in the field of education.
He is employed by Lloyd’s register- a global organization dedicated to “working together for a safer world”- ensuring that multinational clients are compliant with international quality, environmental and health and safety standards.
Mr. Bragg’s educational qualifications include an MBA with distinction from the university of Wolver Hampton business school and a postgraduate diploma from the Open University. He is a chartered quality professional, a chartered safety and health practitioner and a chartered marketer. In December 2004 Mr. Bragg ran two workshops for the academy in Kolkata on Montessori mind mapping.”
Roger Bragg | Technical Trainer
Sandra Caddick | Director of Careers, Guidance and Industrial Links
Sandra graduated from University with a Social Science Degree in 1989 and then undertook a Postgraduate qualification in Careers Guidance. She has over 25 years’ experience in the field of education. As Careers guidance specialists she helps people make decisions about their education, training, and future careers. She is currently working in a school. Careers guidance specialists (normally known as career advisers or, in some settings, personal advisers or careers consultants) help people to achieve their full potential. They do not tell their clients what to do, or what job or learning program they are best suited to, but they help students identify and consider the choices available to them and outline possible courses of action
Sandra works with individual students through face-to-face interviews which involves using guidance skills to have a purposeful conversation to help establish the client’s abilities, preferences, and priorities. She works with groups, helping young people make decisions about their future learning options, with their job search. She keeps up to date with local and national labor market trends and developments in education, employment, and training. She visits university colleges, employers to find opportunities and understand what is required for jobs and different courses. She helps organize career events, where students can meet representatives from education, training, and industry. In order to ensure that students move on to appropriate work/learning, she liaises with learning providers, human resource managers in employing organizations.