The wave
Surf it. Don't drown.
Some people see the wave and freeze. Some go under and gasp. The goal of AI Skills Club is to teach the skill of surfing: stay with the change, celebrate it, and keep learning as newer waves arrive.
KarmYog for 21st Century presents
Don't just use AI.
Learn to create with it.
A learning club, not a course marketplace. Born at IIT Kharagpur Research Park. Powered by KarmYog for 21st Century. Learn to create with AI, teach others, and grow through badges, workshops and real projects.
The world is already moving
This is a club for people who will drive AI, not only build it.
From the launch announcement by Sambha Chary: large language models arrived, then agentic AI, and robotics is next. The club does not ask you to become a model researcher. It asks you to become fluent - so you can use AI to improve daily life and solve other people's problems.
The roads of AI
Skills are the roads.
The launch video uses this metaphor: America did not only manufacture automobiles. It built roads so everyone could benefit. India must build AI skills the same way - so the nation is not left watching from the roadside.
From the announcement
India is already #2 in AI use.
After the United States, India has one of the deepest concentrations of AI users, creators and coders. The missing piece is mass driving skill: carpenter, farmer, artist, student, scientist - everyone who should be able to steer.
The end game
Outcomes, not AI for its own sake.
The AI revolution will matter most to people who can create outcomes: more productivity, a stronger livelihood or business, or a problem actually solved. Models and tools are roads. Value is what you drive to.
Increase productivity
Same craft. More leverage. Less grind that serves no one.
Grow a livelihood
Use AI so a shop, a farm, a studio or a practice can serve more people without losing its soul.
Solve a real problem
Someone else's bottleneck, not a demo. Fluency is the means. The result is the point.
Technology for technology's sake will be less valuable. Skill that produces an outcome will not.
What this is
A festivity of learning and growth. An utsav, not a landing page for courses.
A club means a movement from I to we. Companionship is the method: guru-sannidha (learning beside those slightly ahead) and sahabhav (friendship among members). Formal paths exist. Fear-based exams do not.
Learning club
Peer teaching, badges, workshops, and celebration. Yellow helps white. Brown helps yellow. Higher-badge members mentor lower-badge members.
Open to all
School students, college students, professionals, entrepreneurs, beginners. Carpenter, rickshaw driver, mason, plumber, painter, farmer, coder, scientist.
Human first
The purpose is atmabharat - self-sufficiency - and becoming a greater human being. Jobs and prestige may follow. They are not the promise.
Indian + global
Fountainhead: IIT Kharagpur Research Park. Driven by KarmYog for 21st Century Foundation. Visit address shared with Newtown Vatika in New Town, Kolkata.
Who can join
If you can commit, you can begin.
Callout
No prior AI knowledge required.
The first test is not marks. It is sadhana - committed practice. Aesthetic sense, scientific temper, curiosity in history, geography and life sciences, sport and youthful energy all help. Exam scores do not close the door.
School students
Start before the wave becomes the only weather.
College students
Learn to create, not only consume tools before a placement brochure.
Professionals
Bring your craft. Let AI multiply it without erasing it.
Entrepreneurs
Build value for others. That is the club's measure of worth.
Beginners welcome
Start with commitment, not a prior certificate in AI.
Why join
Benefit is material. Purpose is larger.
You may earn more, become more valuable, gain prestige. The deeper aim, from the announcement, is dharma as ethical living - not a sect - and liberation from salary-only aspiration.
01
Practical AI skills
Use, create, teach.
02
Certificates / badges
Progress framed as celebration, not punishment.
03
Networking
A we, not a queue of profiles.
04
Mentorship
Those slightly ahead walk with you.
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Project experience
Work that helps someone else.
What you'll learn
Skills that produce an outcome.
Start here
Prompt Engineering
The craft of asking, steering and iterating with machines so they become useful in your actual work - not a parlour trick.
Multiplies productivity
Use AI so yesterday's grind becomes today's leverage.
Content conceptualisation
Think, shape and compose with AI as a partner, not a ghostwriter you hide.
AI for coding
Build faster, read code better, and stay in charge of what ships.
Automation and workflows
Connect tools. Remove repetition. Keep judgment human.
Real-world projects
Portfolio work that solves someone else's problem, not a tutorial clone.
Club activities
How the club actually lives, week by week.
Weekly workshops
Hands-on sessions. Show up. Practice. Leave with a skill you can use the same day.
Interactive knowledge exchange
Members teach members. The person one step ahead is your nearest guru.
Guest sessions
Distilled expertise from practitioners, held inside the IIT and KarmYog network.
Portfolio building
Proof of work. Projects that can be shown, not just certificates that can be framed.
Community discussions
Talk about what is changing - LLMs, agents, robotics - without empty hype.
Badge journey
Martial-arts belts, rewritten as badges.
White, then yellow/green, then brown, then black - with dan levels inside black. Formal assessments exist. They are designed as celebrations. The members of this club teach one another.
White
Begin. Learn beside someone slightly ahead.
Yellow / Green
Now you help the white belts rise.
Brown
Depth, responsibility, quieter mastery.
Black
And higher dan. A beacon for the movement.
Launch announcement
Hear why the club exists.
Sambha Chary
Watch the launch announcement
Sambha Chary introduces the AI Skills Club — why it exists, how the badge journey works, and why the first 9 members will become founding pillars of a nationwide AI skills movement. Offline, the words remain on this page. Online, the film plays here.
youtu.be/1XG5dypolQA
Founding 9
Become a Founding Member
The club opens with 9 founding members. They remain founding members for life. No major monetary fees. No degree requirement. The test is total commitment plus the will to create outcomes - productivity, livelihood, or a problem solved. These nine are the beacons who grow this club from IIT Kharagpur Research Park to the nation and beyond.
Questions
Ask plainly. The announcement already did.
Both in spirit. There are formal learning paths and badge progression, with the culture of a club: companionship and celebration. It is not a rigid exam-only school, and not a generic online AI course marketplace.
No. No prior AI knowledge required. Commitment is the first requirement.
No major monetary fees. The currency is sadhana - committed practice.
Practical AI skills, badges and certificates, mentorship, projects, and community. No job or salary guarantee. The aim is intrinsic value and service.
KarmYog for 21st Century, anchored at IIT Kharagpur Research Park. The launch was addressed by Sambha Chary.
Nine only, in the first month. They remain founding members forever. After that the club is meant to multiply.