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Mohitha Adira
Mohitha Adira
“It was just like a relay race. I was running because someone handed me the baton. I was running because people were rooting for me. I was…
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Aug 13, 2021
Ritu Anilkumar
Ritu Anilkumar
“ I was three, and after being done with the whole preschool drama, was ready for big person school. So I was dropped off by my dad at the…
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Aug 3, 2020
Mukhtar Ahmed
Mukhtar Ahmed
“I’ve lived in mountainous areas near Kargil most of my life, but I’ve seen the widest skies there, ensconced by nothing. We played by our…
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Dec 23, 2019
Abhishek Kumar
Abhishek Kumar
“I was scandalized and had a point to prove.”
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Sep 18, 2019
Bhavana Dinesh
Bhavana Dinesh
“I’d decided that I wanted to become an astrophysicist at an age when I could neither spell nor pronounce it. Almost every night near my…
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Sep 18, 2019
Ankit Verma
Ankit Verma
“We do not realise what we’re missing or if at all there’s something better out there, until we experience it for ourselves. I realised…
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Sep 18, 2019
KVNG Vikram
KVNG Vikram
“A Train driver.
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Sep 18, 2019
Prajwal Patnaik
Prajwal Patnaik
“Odia. My dad and mom are from Odisha. But the language I could speak when I was a kid wasn’t Odia, it was Tamil. I found it very tough to…
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Sep 18, 2019
Gowtham Sivaraman
Gowtham Sivaraman
“Till my tenth grade, I was schooled under the Tamilnadu matriculation board, Tamil being the medium of instruction. Then, I did not know…
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Sep 18, 2019
Nidish Narayanaa
Nidish Narayanaa
“So, when did it all start? I experienced my pivotal moment in the third semester perhaps. I pretty much chilled out during the first two…
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Sep 18, 2019
Yash Joshi
Yash Joshi
“I was schooled in Gujarati medium in the formative years. So I was in for quite the shock when I changed schools in Class 11th and went…
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Sep 18, 2019
Dwitheeya Pathiramanna
Dwitheeya Pathiramanna
“Wait, I guess… 94..476…8890. Yes. That’s it! No, it’s not an incomplete mobile number, but my rank in the medical entrance examinations…
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Sep 18, 2019
Chinmai Sai
Chinmai Sai
“Ours is a joint family — 11 of us in one big apartment in the beautiful town of Tuni in Andhra Pradesh. Memories of my home brighten me…
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Sep 18, 2019
Garima Aggarwal
Garima Aggarwal
“Well, I can’t even make tea! My mother never taught me how to, and I somehow never learned.
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Sep 18, 2019
Manish Kumar Mishra
Manish Kumar Mishra
“We went to Adimalathura Beach once. The boatmen were moving around packing their things for the day. There was a lady there playing with…
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Sep 18, 2019
Mustafa Shahid
Mustafa Shahid
“I have always been interested in sports, or… maybe not. Both my parents were (and one still is) in the army. Consequently, I had the…
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Sep 18, 2019
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