Sirsi: How does it feel if the teacher in the class looks strikingly similar to the kids, complete with uniform and shoes?

She is Shiksha, teacher and student rolled into one, and has been a big hit among children in the schools of the taluk. 

She may not be in flesh and blood, but teaches her friends-cum-pupils the tables, multiplication and poems, in a mode that they don’t get bored.

Not just that. Shiksha, a robot created by Prof Akshay Mashelkar, physics teacher at the MES Chaitanya College here, also plays with her students.

The robot is a topper in her own right and knows answers to all questions from the students. She is now so popular that her services are requisitioned by all schools.