The new child language: Coding fever grips India with pent-up demand

Byju's-acquired WhiteHat Jr, Vedantu, Toppr are among edtech start-ups leading the charge

• Hiranya Rajni, seven, has created a sign language app that allows people to communicate with hearing impaired individuals using American Sign Language.
 

• Priti Verma, 43, avers that coding classes helped her son who struggles with learning and has attention span issues, by teaching him an alternative, more logical form of expression as well as providing a socially enabling space online.
 

• The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) states that children should be taught to code early, just like writing and arithmetic.
 

Ever since the new National Education Policy, announced in July 2020,