He spent thirty years releasing hidden energy from cells and inverters. At 47, he discovered he had been a gifted child no one ever identified — so he co-founded GiftedKids.in, India's first platform to find and nurture the others.
If you read this site, you know our work is about capacity that stays invisible until you build the right system around it. A lithium cell holds enormous energy — but without the right BMS, charging profile and design, that energy is wasted, or worse, dangerous. The cell is never the problem. The system around it is.
A gifted child is exactly the same. The capacity is there from the start. But without identification, the right challenge, and an adult who understands them, that potential is not just wasted — it is often punished. That is the realisation that led the founder of this platform, Kunwer Sachdev — the Inverter Man of India — to co-found GiftedKids.in, India's first platform dedicated to identifying and nurturing gifted children.
He was a government-school boy in Delhi. He failed Physics. He repeated his 12th standard. Not one teacher ever said, "this boy thinks differently." He carried that quiet confusion through three decades of building India's inverter and battery industry. Then, at 47, he read a book called Gifted Grownups — and for the first time, felt seen. The traits he had always treated as quirks were the signature of a brain wired differently. He had been a gifted grown-up his whole life, and nobody had a word for it.
India has roughly one crore gifted children in its classrooms right now, and almost none have been identified. Western IQ tests were built for English-speaking, Western children; they cannot see the gifted child who thinks in Bhojpuri or shows genius through mechanical curiosity. So GiftedKids.in is building India's first observational identification framework — based on how a child engages with the world, not a test score — alongside an advocacy toolkit for parents and a searchable map of scholarships and programmes.
He is building it with co-founders Khushboo Sachdev, CEO of Su-vastika and a Government of India patent holder, and Dr. Inderbir Kaur Sandhu, who holds a PhD in gifted education from the University of Cambridge.
— Kunwer Sachdev · The Inverter Man of India · Co-founder of GiftedKids.in · More at kunwersachdev.com