I'm in Bangalore — is there any real advantage to learning online instead of finding a class nearby?

ONSA's Answer

That's a fair thing to question, Divya, and living in a city with real options nearby makes it a genuine choice rather than the online-by-default some smaller towns end up with. The honest comparison isn't online versus offline in the abstract — it's the specific class near you versus the specific course you're considering. A nearby institute gives you a fixed schedule and a fixed teacher; online, done properly, gives you recorded lessons you can replay when a technique didn't land the first time, and the flexibility to fit learning around a Bangalore commute and work hours that rarely cooperate. Neither is automatically better. Go see the institute near you, ask the same questions you'd ask any course, and compare properly instead of assuming the one down the road wins just because it's closer.