Brainfeed Magazine
Brainfeed Magazine is an education-focused monthly magazine published from Hyderabad, covering schools, educators, education policy and learning trends across India. Founded in 2013, it serves the 3–16 age-group education market with reporting on teaching methods, student behaviour, educational tools and leadership management in schools. Alongside the flagship magazine, the Brainfeed Group publishes a family of age-specific children’s magazines and runs one of the Indian school sector’s best-known awards and conference programmes, the Brainfeed School Excellence Awards.
Publication profile: an education magazine from Hyderabad
Brainfeed is a monthly magazine in English, listed in the trade and commercial magazines category under education and training. It is published from Hyderabad, Telangana, with its registered and editorial address at Plot No. 47, Road No. 4A, Golden Tulip Estate, Kondapur, Hyderabad 500084 — and offices also listed at Suite 708, Kadiris Apurupa Urban, Laxmi Nagar, Kondapur, Hyderabad 500084.
The magazine targets the entire education sector from primary to high school, with a focus on the 3–16 age-group market. Its readership spans school leaders, teachers, educationists, parents and students: informative editorial coverage of current news, government strategies and curriculum criteria sits alongside industry features and in-depth articles, making the magazine a working tool for educators keeping in touch with developments in their field. A one-year print subscription of 12 issues is priced at Rs. 1,800.
Founding and growth since 2013
Brainfeed Magazine was founded in 2013 in Hyderabad and has operated since as a bootstrapped company in the edtech and publishing space. Within a little over four years of launch, the magazine crossed a monthly circulation of 50,000 copies, achieved mostly through annual subscriptions — a notable feat for a specialist B2B-style education title built without institutional funding.
Growth came from the magazine’s positioning at the intersection of publishing and the school ecosystem. Rather than addressing only teachers or only parents, Brainfeed set out to serve children, teachers and parents together, with editorial that moved between classroom pedagogy, school leadership and parenting — a breadth that let it build subscription relationships with schools themselves, which remain the backbone of its circulation.
The publisher and ownership
The magazine’s masthead records that it is printed, published and owned by Ritesh Sharma, and published from the Kondapur, Hyderabad address. The publishing operation is associated with Kakani Edu Media, which handles the magazine’s subscription fulfilment — print subscriptions are shipped directly by the publisher, with the first issue of a new subscription typically dispatched within four to six weeks.
Industry databases classify Brainfeed Magazine in the book and periodical publishing sector, specialising in publishing, magazines, the Brainfeed web portal and the conducting of educational conferences. The company is an Indian company headquartered in Hyderabad, with a team reported at around three dozen employees.
Circulation and the Brainfeed group of magazines
Beyond the flagship title, the Brainfeed Group publishes a set of age-specific children’s magazines: Brainfeed Junior, Brainfeed Primary I, Brainfeed Primary II and Brainfeed High. Together with the main magazine, the combined cumulative monthly circulation of all the group’s magazines is reported at 1,40,000 copies.
The segmented structure gives advertisers the option of reaching selective target groups — educationists, teachers and students at different schooling stages — and gives schools and parents age-appropriate reading material for children. The group’s stated endeavour is to inculcate the habit of reading among young students while supporting educators and other stakeholders in educational activities collaboratively. It also welcomes contributions of articles from parents, teachers and educators from across the globe.
Editorial coverage: pedagogy, policy and practice
Brainfeed’s editorial coverage is built around the practical concerns of school education. Teaching methods and classroom pedagogical practices form the core beat, with coverage of innovative technology-based teaching and the latest developments in the educational landscape. Student behaviour, educational tools and leadership management in schools are recurring subjects, alongside government strategies, curriculum criteria and education policy.
The magazine also educates parents on handling their children — on behaviour, and on inculcating moral and ethical values — recognising that learning outcomes depend as much on the home as on the classroom. Features on inclusive education and sustainability have been singled out by school leaders as particularly valuable, and the magazine’s educator edition is described as connecting thousands of school leaders and educators with objective insights on what is current and what is next in schooling.
QR codes, supplements and digital innovation
Brainfeed has a record of product innovation unusual in Indian education publishing. It was the first educational magazine in India to use QR codes to let readers watch educational videos — bridging the print page and digital video at a time when few Indian magazines were experimenting with such formats.
The magazine also provides free academic supplements for Classes VI to X, designed to help students prepare for both school examinations and competitive exams — a practical value-add that deepens the magazine’s relationship with student readers and their parents. The Brainfeed web portal at brainfeedmagazine.com extends the brand online with news, expert views, a school-search feature and photo galleries, while the magazine maintains an active social presence and a YouTube channel, Brainfeed TV, carrying coverage of its events and EdTalks sessions.
The School Excellence Awards
Brainfeed has presented the Brainfeed School Excellence Awards since 2015, honouring schools that excel in the quality of education and are considered trailblazers in areas such as innovative practices, happiness-quotient indexes, life-skill education and parental engagement. The awards recognise the top schools of India — the top 500 schools nationally in some editions — across categories including best CBSE school, best international school, innovative practices, boarding, community and collaboration, sports education, STEM education, academic excellence and inspirational leadership.
Schools across the country compete for and publicise these awards: the Aga Khan Academy Hyderabad, for instance, was conferred a Brainfeed School Excellence Award in 2019 as one of India’s best schools across categories including Best International School, Innovative Practices and Happiness Quotient Index School, with the award presented at Brainfeed Magazine’s 6th national conference on teaching, learning and leadership at Hotel Avasa, Hyderabad, on 31 January 2019. Yuvabharathi Public School was similarly honoured across the 5th, 6th and 7th national conferences for categories spanning infrastructure, sports education, STEM and academic excellence.
Conferences: national conferences and EdTalks
The awards are presented at Brainfeed’s national conferences on teaching, learning and leadership — day-long gatherings that intersperse award distribution with panel discussions, presentations and speeches by educationists and academicians. The 6th national conference in January 2019 drew eminent educationists, with Prof. Dinesh Singh, former Vice-Chancellor of Delhi University, as chief guest. By February 2023 the programme had reached its 10th National Conference 2.0, which presented Trailblazer School of the Year awards to top CBSE, ICSE and international schools and preschools in Hyderabad.
Brainfeed also runs EdTalks, a platform for educationists to share ideas and discuss educational solutions — the Brainfeed EdTalks 2.0 edition in Chennai in 2019 drew participation from Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Australia, Mumbai, Chennai, Coimbatore, Puducherry, Hyderabad and Kerala. More recently, the ET TECH X 2024 event has been powered by Brainfeed, extending the brand into education-technology conversations.
Sister ventures: Higher Education Plus and MI Champs India
The Brainfeed Group’s ambitions extend beyond school education. Its web ecosystem includes Higher Education Plus (highereducationplus.com), a publication serving the higher-education sector, and MI Champs India, alongside the main Brainfeed portal. These ventures let the group address the full education continuum — from preschool and schooling through higher education — with each platform serving its own audience of institutions, educators and students.
The December 2025 issue of Higher Education Plus illustrates the group’s publishing operation at work: a full magazine with editorial, design and circulation teams, printed, published and owned within the same Hyderabad publishing house that produces Brainfeed.
Position in Indian education media
India’s education media landscape includes general news coverage of education policy, a handful of specialist magazines, and a growing set of edtech platforms — but few publications combine a monthly print magazine, a children’s magazine family, a national awards programme and a conference business the way Brainfeed does. Its bootstrapped growth from a 2013 Hyderabad startup to a 50,000-circulation monthly with a 1,40,000-copy group footprint, plus an awards programme running since 2015, marks it as one of the more distinctive independent voices in Indian education publishing.
For school leaders, the magazine and its events function as a professional community — a place to benchmark practice, recognise excellence and debate the future of teaching and learning. For parents and students, the children’s magazines, supplements and QR-linked videos offer curriculum-adjacent reading. And for the education industry, Brainfeed’s conferences and awards provide one of the sector’s established meeting grounds.
