Karan Bhalla In the competitive landscape of Indian academia, Assistant Professor Karan Bhalla stands out for his relentless intellectual curiosity. A professor of Chemistry at Gulana Engineering College, Punjab, he treats NPTEL less like a certification platform and more like an ongoing experiment in how much one person can learn. It was 2020, campuses had …
Dr Chetana Hegde The day I spoke with Dr. Chetana Hegde was her last at Fractal Analytics. Three days later, she would begin a new chapter at Accenture as a Lead AI Architect. It felt fitting. We weren’t just talking between two jobs, but in the brief pause between one chapter and the next. That …
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Sureshchandra H.S. At the exam centre gate, the security guard tried to stop the silver‑haired man in a neatly pressed shirt, assuming he was there to drop off a student. More than half a dozen times, HS Sureshchandra had to produce his hall ticket to prove he was the candidate, not the parent, there to …
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Dr K Kathikeyan Dr. K. Karthikeyan, then the Dean of Examinations at his college in Madurai, was reading The Hindu one August morning when a headline stopped him – a second-year engineering student had completed 15 NPTEL courses. He was in his fifties, already three decades into teaching, and something about a teenager’s 15 certificates …
Chaitanya Srivastava After two decades navigating the evolving landscape of his industry, Chaitanya Jee Srivastava felt a growing unease – a realization that his original degree no longer fully equipped him for the challenges ahead. This feeling sparked a transformative journey: through relentless learning across 19 rigorous NPTEL courses and two specialized certifications, he forged …
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Baig Mirza Abdullah When the world came to an unprecedented halt, many found themselves adrift in long, empty hours. Yet, for Baig Mirza Abdullah, an administrator at Dr. Nakadar Institute of Knowledge, these “void years” became a canvas for growth. Rather than succumbing to boredom or frustration, Abdullah seized the moment to immerse himself in learning, …
Dr. Bhushan Ambade At 56, Dr. Ambade is a Civil Engineering faculty member at Government Polytechnic, Nagpur, a motivational speaker, and, by his own reckoning, a student for life. The wall behind him during our conversation tells the story better than any resume could: eleven NPTEL certificates hung in neat rows, with five more waiting …
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Dr. Anupam Tiwari A RADAR doesn’t look at one thing. It sweeps: wide, patient, picking up signals across an entire field before settling on what matters. It’s a fitting image for Dr. Anupam Tiwari, a RADAR and Communication engineer with 28 years behind him and, as it turns out, a topper of his BE in …
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Dr. Swapnil Shenvi There is a particular kind of discipline that has nothing to do with willpower and everything to do with routine. For Swapnil Shenvii, a Company Secretary and Assistant Professor of Finance at NMIMS (Deemed to be University), Mumbai, that routine looks like this: a 30-60 minute commute, a pair of earphones, and …
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Gopal Charan Behera If you open your eyes anywhere in India today, Dr. Gopal Charan Behera will tell you what you see: concrete. Bridges, columns, walls, floors – a civilisation held together by a material most people never think about. He has spent thirty-three years thinking about almost nothing else, first as a student, then …
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