Dr D Rosy Salomi Victoria For many, becoming a teacher marks the moment when one moves from being taught to becoming the one who teaches. For Dr. Rosy Salomi Victoria, that line has never been distinct. After 35 years in academia, she remains a student in her own right – curious, persistent and willing to …
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Dr Arunashri For Dr. Arunashri, learning is not a phase that ends with a degree, a job, or a certificate. It is a way of staying alert – to her profession, to her students, and to the world around her. An assistant professor of Anatomy at Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences in Bangalore, she has …
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Asheesh Kumar Dr Ashish Kumar’s life reads like a map of places that taught him to adapt. Born in Banda district of Uttar Pradesh, he moved often because his father was in the army – living in Hyderabad, Jammu and Kashmir, Bareilly, and finally Allahabad (Prayagraj). Those early shifts bred a practical curiosity that later …
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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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