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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Hemlatha Munamgi For 30 years, Hemalatha has taught from the front of a classroom at Lakireddy Bali Reddy College of Engineering in Andhra Pradesh. She finished her postgraduate degree in 1998, when the tools available to a young lecturer were textbooks, chalk, and whatever she could carry in her head. She was always the kind …
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Amandeep Thakur In 2020, when the pandemic arrived and postponed nearly everything, it also postponed the exams Amandeep Thakur had already signed up for. Courses remained unfinished, and certificates were left in limbo for nearly a year. During that time, it would have been simple for him to allow his enrollment to quietly expire, becoming …
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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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