Bikram Pathak For Bikram Pathak, the biggest obstacle in learning was not the difficulty of the subject. Akin to us, it was the fear of starting it. A Microbiologist by training, Bikram once found Mathematics and Computational Biology intimidating. This unease began to change during his master’s dissertation at CDRI Lucknow, where a few weeks …
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Gaurav Sharan By day, Gaurav Sharan works in banking. By habit, he studies for the future. He’s a Regional Marketing Manager at Indian Overseas Bank and, as Convener of the bank’s Product Adoption Committee, he has become a product strategist in all but title: reading what stakeholders need, learning why some products take hold and …
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Chandra Sekhar K Many people fall into the loop of chasing numbers for the sake of watching them grow. Not many chase distilled knowledge itself, and Chandra Sekhar K fell directly into the latter bucket. Being an Assistant Professor in Raghu Institute of Technology, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering …
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Afra Sabreen Afra doesn’t remember choosing a study schedule for NPTEL. She remembers the metro. Forty minutes each way between home and college, notes open on her lap, assignments finished somewhere between one station and the next. It is, still, mostly how she studies. It started with her brother, Rizwan Ahamed N, a pre-doctoral fellow …
Anna N Kurian For Anna N Kurian, studying does not always mean sitting at a desk. Sometimes it means taking printed NPTEL material into the kitchen while her young child is at home. A full-time research scholar at APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University in Thiruvananthapuram, she has learned to fit her studies around research, family …
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Amrit Mitra A paradigm shift in any field is often received with skepticism and resistance. Yet it is those who embrace a new advent who help propel it forward, and Amrit Mitra was no different. Having completed his Masters in Chemistry for IIT Kharagpur and served as a Group A Officer, Controller of Examinations, and …
Mogulla Krishna Reddy Mogulla Krishna Reddy manages validation and compliance for life sciences projects at Cognizant, a title that says little about the twenty-year journey that led him there. He began in a life sciences company, on the product side, in a world of assays and protocols. Then came the shift to consulting, and with …
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Krushnasamy Subramaniyan As technology evolves, adaptability becomes essential, especially for educators, for whom keeping up is not an option but a necessity. Dr. Krushnasamy Subramaniyan, an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering at Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, understands this better than anyone. With over 20 years of teaching experience, his …
V.Dhivya As an assistant professor from the Department of Mathematics at Bharathidasan Government College for Women, it was no surprise that even V. Dhivya would be sitting idly during the downtime of lockdown. It was then that a close friend introduced her to NPTEL, the e-learning platform of India. Despite her background in Mathematics, her …
Rama Reddy Karri At IIT Madras, Dr. Ramareddy Karri, a 71-year-old psychiatrist from Andhra Pradesh, received a standing ovation when he was called onto the stage. The Director and the assembled audience rose to applaud him, creating a moment that Karri considers more “remarkable and memorable” than even his accolades from the President of India. …
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