Born in 2009 into the West Road residences of Selwyn College Cambridge (as my parents were medical academic scholars at the University of Cambridge), I remained in Cambridge until 2019 initially receiving education at Sancton Wood School followed by King’s College School at the University of Cambridge. This is where my passion for sustainability and climate action first took root as I became an active member of the Eco Club, involving myself in peaceful protests and productive action. I simultaneously developed a keen interest in the performing arts and received both Western and Hindustani classical vocal training which I have continued to this day. Whilst in Cambridge, I regularly performed as part of the school choir at the Kings College Chapel and also as part of the St Andrews Parish Choir in Cherry Hinton, Cambridge.

 

Now aged 16, I hold an Academic Scholarship (2025-2027) on the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme at St Leonards School in St Andrews, Scotland, where I have been studying since 2021 leading to an A* average in the 2025 GCSE examinations. At St Leonards I am an active member of the amazing Love’s Angels Choir as well as the schoolwide choir, continuing to train in both Western and Hindustani classical vocal music. I have also competed at a national level in the British School Rifle Championships, and am the co-founder of the St Leonards Book Club. I have been a delegate at four Model United Nations (MUN) Conferences and have been recently appointed as a legal committee chair for the 2026 St Leonards MUN Conference. I have recently been appointed to the position of an IB Ambassador for WellPrepped which provides IB tutorials across a global network of schools. Both in school as well as outside, I continue to champion causes at the intersection of education, equity, and the environment.

 

Since 2015, I have contributed regularly to the work of the NNEdPro Global Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health, initially leading a hydration and health awareness programme for schoolchildren. I then formally became a Junior Ambassador at the time of the NNEdPro 10th anniversary in 2018, establishing the Kids Kitchen Club Challenge during the pandemic, which subsequently ran online for several years, and I now serve as a Lead Global Youth Ambassador.

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I have had the honour of being the original mind behind the concept of the Mobile Teaching Kitchen (MTK), which empowers mothers and children in India’s urban slums through nutrition education and micro-entrepreneurship. Inspired by my experience at an impact workshop in Kolkata, I later expanded the model by introducing Little Literacy Libraries (LLLs) for slum children in 2022, an initiative that was launched following a successful fundraiser co-organised in St Andrews. The MTK is now in Year-8 in India, Year-4 in Mexico, Year-3 in USA and Year-2 in the UK. I have been significantly involved in both US and UK adaptations and jointly received the International Program Impact Award for the MTK at the SNEB Conference in Atlanta in 2022 following which I was an invited speaking on the MTK and the LLLs at the 2023 SNEB Conference on Capitol Hill in Washington DC as well as speaking at the State University of New York and at the World Food Forum of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations also in 2023.

 

Passionate in both Western and Eastern performing arts, I have performed in five NNEdPro fundraising events, An Indian Summer (2026), The Spice Trail (2017), and The Confluence (2019, 2021 and 2023), using the arts to raise support for MTK operations. I am equally at home on stage as a speaker, having delivered talks from an early age at the Fitzwilliam Museum and Wolfson College in Cambridge to the University of Dundee, where I have raised awareness about food insecurity, climate change, and cultural identity from a youth perspective. In July 2025 I presented on the work of the LLLs at workshops held at the Bern University of Applied Sciences and the National University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur as well as undertaking a fourth year of fieldwork in the urban slums of Kolkata to further the LLLs.

 

My interest in history, human rights, and global affairs extends to academic excellence, as evidenced by my recent selection as a finalist with merit in the prestigious Oxford-Princeton John Locke Institute Global Essay Competition, from over 50,000 submissions worldwide.

 

Currently, I am focused on scaling the Little Literacy Library (LLL) model, a grassroots educational resource hub, to new environments, including within the UK. In 2022, and I have been commended for my work by His Excellency Ram Nath Kovind President of India (2017-2021). I have also been supporting the establishment of the Scottish arm of the MTK which now successfully operates across Dundee, Angus and Fife in Scotland and is set to expand further within the UK.

 

Looking ahead, I am currently studying higher level History, Economics and Literature as part of the IB Diploma, and hope to take these skills towards a career spanning law, international relations and social justice with an aim to connect and help as many individuals as possible for many years to come! 😊