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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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 …