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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Dr Tirumala Ramashri By the time Dr. Tirumala Ramashri reaches home, it is past eight. She sets off for Sri Venkateswara University College of Engineering at seven-thirty in the morning and drives forty kilometres home. She sits down right away to revise. She had already taken eight NPTEL exams that semester, and between the commute, …
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Dr Naresh Babu For many, becoming a teacher might mark the end of formal learning. For Dr. Naresh Babu, it became the beginning of a lifelong journey. With an MBA, an MSc in Mathematics, and a PhD in Management, he also gained professional experience in Global Treasury Operations before moving into academia. Today, as a …
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Dr R. Selvakumari For Dr. R. Selvakumari, learning has never been a destination – it has always been a way of life. Armed with an MBA, M.Phil., and a Ph.D., she has spent years shaping young minds in higher education. After serving for over fourteen years in academia, she now leads the Department of Business …
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Ravi Suryadevara Can a seasoned professional with decades of experience in nuclear engineering and software project management discover new avenues for learning? For Ravi Suryadevara, an accomplished scientist and quality systems consultant, the answer is a definitive yes. His experience with NPTEL serves as a compelling testament to the idea that learning is lifelong, transcending …
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Karthik C Airani As a Senior Research Engineer and a part-time PhD scholar at NIT Calicut, Karthik C Airani already had a demanding professional and academic routine. NPTEL added four more subjects to it – and, unexpectedly, brought back the student in him. Karthik’s foray into NPTEL was initially driven by a requirement for his …
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