Kumudavalli Manjunath On the morning of April 27, 2022, 18 days after major neck surgery, Dr. Kumudavalli sat for an NPTEL exam with the bandage still on. Her husband drove her to the center, waited through the paper, and drove her home again, the way he had done for every exam before it and every …
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Krishnaveni B V At CMRIT Hyderabad, in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Dr. Krishnaveni B V teaches machine learning to computer science students. This is not where her story begins. In 2019, she signed up for her first NPTEL course on a colleague’s suggestion, choosing something safe and close to her own field. …
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Joseph Jonathan Fernandes In Margao, Goa, Joseph Jonathan Fernandis keeps a diary just for exam dates. Not his own college exams, the other ones. Every semester, when the university releases its list of NPTEL electives eligible for honours credit, he opens the notebook first, checks which subjects might overlap, and starts building a season around …
Sreelakshmi PS Interest is a part of human experience that comes from jumping into the unknown. Sreelakshmi PS has an idea of it and during her years in her BTech Degree in Computer Science and Engineering, as she came near the end of her degree, it was mandated that students garner 100 activity points for …
Rajdeep Das Working as a Junior Fellow Researcher at the Institute of Engineering and Management, Kolkata, under the CST, IML and CSB departments, can be quite demanding, especially while pursuing a BTech. Rajdeep Das was one such fellow, and the trajectory of his academic interests deepened and changed when an educator came and introduced him …
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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 Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana. He treats NPTEL less like a certification platform and more like an ongoing experiment in how much one person can learn. It was 2020, …
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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