Alpesh Adesara It was a Sunday morning in Ahmedabad, and while most of the city eased into the weekend, Alpesh Adesara walked into an exam centre with a freshly printed hall ticket in hand. He had arrived fifteen minutes before the reporting time, just in time to take one of his two NPTEL exams that …
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Ansh Kansagra The importance of inspiration in one’s life can hardly be overemphasised. For Ansh Kansagra, a third-year B.Tech student at Charotar University of Science and Technology in Gujarat, this inspiration came in the form of two figures he’d known very closely throughout the years: his father and his teacher. Currently studying Electronics and Communication …
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Pallavi Pendse For more than fourteen years now, Pallavi Pendse has stood in front of classrooms teaching people how to communicate. She could deliver a session on professional excellence without batting an eye and could coach a room full of engineering students through difficult conversations, body language, and first impressions. What she couldn’t do, for …
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Aradhya Joshi In Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, continuous learning is essential to keeping pace with a rapidly changing field.For Aradhya Joshi, a recent Computer Science graduate, specializing in AI and ML, from Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya (RGPV), the quest for continuous learning led him to a transformative experience with NPTEL. Recently transitioning into a …
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Ramrup Satpati “I was the forgotten one… & I am glad”. A classroom is full of minds of various kinds. Teachers tend to remember the toppers, the familiar faces at the front of the class. They also remember those who seem indifferent to all of it. Ramrup saw himself as neither. He was the quiet …
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Paragjit Sarma At the end of a long workday, when many professionals would close their laptops and call it a night, Paragit Sarma makes coffee and opens his course materials. The study window is modest – usually from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. – but the ambition behind it is anything but. For him, learning is …
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S Kishore Kishore did not know how far NPTEL would take him when he enrolled in his first course during the lockdown. At the time, he was an undergraduate Civil Engineering student exploring Environmental Engineering and looking for ways to deepen what he was learning in class. It began with a few online lectures, gradually …
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Manasvi Raj The exam hall had barely emptied when Manasvi Raj and his friends spilled into the open air, still arguing about the answers. The ‘Electronic Systems Design: Hands-on Circuits and PCB Design with CAD Software’ exam had been tough, genuinely tough. Someone insisted one option was correct. Someone else was equally certain it was …
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A. Mareeswari There is one moment A. Mareeswari returns to whenever she thinks about NPTEL. It was the afternoon she walked through the gates of an IIT for the first time and simply stood there, looking. The coordinators were moving past her, while researchers headed somewhere with folders under their arms. She had come for …
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Dr Manik G. Deshmukh Imagine writing so many exams in a single semester that the watchman at the exam centre starts recognising your face. Morning shift, afternoon shift, then back again the next morning. He finally stops you: why are you writing so many papers? What do you even get from this? For most people, …
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