To develop committed change agents for India through a multidisciplinary programme guided by distinguished scholars and leaders of our time
About YIF Why YIF?
The Young India Fellowship (YIF) is a one-year multidisciplinary postgraduate diploma programme in Liberal Studies at Ashoka University. The Fellowship brings together a group of bright young men and Multidisciplinary World Class Faculty women who show exceptional intellectual ability and leadership potential, from across the country, and Curriculum Fellows are taught by trains them to become socially committed agents of change. The Fellowship offers a wide outstanding faculty members variety of subjects that enable with excellent teaching and breadth of learning and multiple research credentials, from perspectives. Courses at YIF India and abroad. include Sociology, Literature, Partnering with the Best Gender Studies, International Development, and Art Appreciation. The Young India Fellowship is delivered in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS); Carleton College; University of California, Berkeley; University of Michigan; King’s College, London; Trinity College, Dublin; and Sciences Po, Paris. Experiential Learning Module
The Experiential Learning Module complements academic work with real work experience. The module helps Fellows understand team- building and gain problem-solving skills, as they work in a professional environment.
Inspiring Guest Sessions
The guest sessions are a parallel academic curriculum where the YIF at Ashoka Fellows attend sessions taken by global achievers. These role models come from the most diverse range of sectors. So far, Ashoka University is a private, non-profit university. An Fellows have been inspired by unprecedented example of collective public philanthropy in India, more than 400 distinguished it is a pioneer in its focus on the Liberal Arts. It offers its students a individuals. multidisciplinary liberal education, which is usually defined as one that transcends the boundaries between the arts and sciences, and Peer Learning carries a strong emphasis on learning across subjects. At YIF, Fellows are exposed to an extremely diverse peer group. Exceptional Mentorship Financial Support Ashoka's unique postgraduate programme, Young India Fellowship Typically, a classroom consists of (YIF), now in its fifth year, has rapidly become one of the most engineers, scientists, lawyers, Fellows are mentored by a diverse The YIF offers financial support business and humanities students. group of industry titans, to successful applicants through sought-after programmes in India. There are also those who come distinguished scholars and full or partial scholarships and with work experience. This pioneering social achievers. other forms of financial aid. Ashoka is located on a 25-acre campus in the Rajiv Gandhi multidisciplinary environment gives the Fellows an exposure to Education City near New Delhi, India. multiple perspectives and skill-sets.
2 3 About YIF Why YIF?
The Young India Fellowship (YIF) is a one-year multidisciplinary postgraduate diploma programme in Liberal Studies at Ashoka University. The Fellowship brings together a group of bright young men and Multidisciplinary World Class Faculty women who show exceptional intellectual ability and leadership potential, from across the country, and Curriculum Fellows are taught by trains them to become socially committed agents of change. The Fellowship offers a wide outstanding faculty members variety of subjects that enable with excellent teaching and breadth of learning and multiple research credentials, from perspectives. Courses at YIF India and abroad. include Sociology, Literature, Partnering with the Best Gender Studies, International Development, and Art Appreciation. The Young India Fellowship is delivered in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS); Carleton College; University of California, Berkeley; University of Michigan; King’s College, London; Trinity College, Dublin; and Sciences Po, Paris. Experiential Learning Module
The Experiential Learning Module complements academic work with real work experience. The module helps Fellows understand team- building and gain problem-solving skills, as they work in a professional environment.
Inspiring Guest Sessions
The guest sessions are a parallel academic curriculum where the YIF at Ashoka Fellows attend sessions taken by global achievers. These role models come from the most diverse range of sectors. So far, Ashoka University is a private, non-profit university. An Fellows have been inspired by unprecedented example of collective public philanthropy in India, more than 400 distinguished it is a pioneer in its focus on the Liberal Arts. It offers its students a individuals. multidisciplinary liberal education, which is usually defined as one that transcends the boundaries between the arts and sciences, and Peer Learning carries a strong emphasis on learning across subjects. At YIF, Fellows are exposed to an extremely diverse peer group. Exceptional Mentorship Financial Support Ashoka's unique postgraduate programme, Young India Fellowship Typically, a classroom consists of (YIF), now in its fifth year, has rapidly become one of the most engineers, scientists, lawyers, Fellows are mentored by a diverse The YIF offers financial support business and humanities students. group of industry titans, to successful applicants through sought-after programmes in India. There are also those who come distinguished scholars and full or partial scholarships and with work experience. This pioneering social achievers. other forms of financial aid. Ashoka is located on a 25-acre campus in the Rajiv Gandhi multidisciplinary environment gives the Fellows an exposure to Education City near New Delhi, India. multiple perspectives and skill-sets.
2 3 Meet the Fellows Fellows Speak
“I was once told that those The Young India Fellows are a group of 'first among equals', selected through a rigorous and nation-wide “Since YIF ended I had a huge list of things to do. I wanted to move to Kashmir and who follow the crowd usually do farming or something related to heritage and history. I started researching and search for passionate achievers with a desire to bring about change. The Fellowship fosters India's get lost. I am glad to be lost found a treasure of proverbs in Kashmiri and I started illustrating and translating academic, social and business leaders of tomorrow through a multidisciplinary liberal education. The with the right crowd to make them in a blog. It got a lot of attention and from that I also got around 20 volunteers number of applicants to the Fellowship has been increasing consistently every year. In 2015, the number of the right choices. I also believe from all over willing to work in heritage. I have started a heritage project that that one knows oneself only registered applicants was 18344, almost four times of that in the inaugural year of 2011. To meet this focuses on oral traditions, history and the architectural legacy of Kashmir. when he is lost. An awesome increasing demand, the number of seats has now been increased to 225. The Alumni are now 450 strong. Over the last month I got an academic paper published and got accepted to two journey ahead, in search of The Fellows reflect India's geographical diversity and a rich mix of backgrounds. From engineering to conferences, one at the Imperial College in London for July next year and one in self at the Young India fashion design, film to agriculture, medicine to art, and law to journalism, this cross flow of ideas and Prague this year. My paper was on Identity and Orientalism in arts. The work I'm Fellowship 2014-15.” doing also revolves around ethnography. I now think that I shall be applying for a learning from others is as invaluable as the more formal education they receive. - Abhinay Somani, Fellow Masters in Anthropology and I am extremely excited. For all this, I have you to 2015 thank. Else, I'd still have been sitting in front of excel feeling sorry about my life. Thank you so much for the most stimulating year of my life. In short, thank you for giving me the courage to change it.” "If there was a specific - Onaiza Drabu, Fellow 2014, in a letter to Founding-Dean Pramath Sinha degree we got at the end of the year, I fear the Fellowship would have been “Maybe this is what I should do! I might be good at just that. The beauty of this that! I never thought this could be so interesting! It's experience is that it cannot just been a week since we began and such be explained, cannot be “Being born and brought realisations have already flooded my mind and soul. pinned down as being up in a South India village, Looking forward to a year at Young India merely a degree. I was so scared when I Fellowship!” YIF! You have changed the started the journey of the - Danish Mir, Fellow 2015 course of 100 lives in one Young India Fellowship. go...intertwined us in ways However, now, I feel I am unthinkable. If this one year “You build a Trebuchet and you orchestrate a Flash Mob. You cross-dress and you write a 3,000 word reborn with each new day. “I like to describe this year at YIF as the was a roller-coaster ride, I essay. You're taught by professors from Yale and Penn and by the 'Wisest Man in India', Andre Beteille. I have discovered an single most productive year of my life. And can't wait for the rest of my Talks by Madeleine Albright and Ramachandra Guha mark the beginning and end of your first term. excitement in learning with a the change in me is evident. I jump at the life and the 99 other stories I Your understanding extends outward and most importantly inwards. You live as one big family of 100. diverse group of people, opportunity of learning anything new. I am will have the honour of You are elated. You have no time to breathe, and you suddenly begin to enjoy that. Memories are so understanding the value of shared constantly on the lookout to meet more and witnessing. How truly pristine, you want to capture everything in monochrome. You're with the right people, in the right place, thoughts and the spirit of more people and visit more and more places. humbling this has been." at the right time.” togetherness. YIF has given a new I strive to put myself in uncomfortable - Tanita Abraham, Fellow life to my broken dreams and situations. And so on and so forth. Thank hidden aspirations. Living every 2014 - Karan Bhola, Fellow, Class of 2014, YIF you! Young India Fellowship! You taught me day with ignited minds and the how to live.” classroom sessions have - Devleena Chatterji, Fellow 2014 Institutions Represented at YIF strengthened my social sensitivity “You go to dine and in a and have instilled in me the minute you find yourself determination to achieve busy discussing “A year ago, I resigned from my service at BPCL, IIT | BITS | NIFT | NID | NIT | Lady Shri Ram College | Miranda House | NALSAR | ILS Law College | my aspirations. “ international politics and - Ashweetha Shetty, and, what a journey it has been! Full of surprises, global economic operations St. Xavier’s College | Symbiosis Law School | JNU | Hindu College | St. Stephen’s College | Asian Fellow 2013 learning, steep falls and soaring flights. At the end with the platter pushed to College of Journalism | St. Francis College for Women | SRM University | Jamia Millia Islamia | of a year, I am extremely happy and spirited. I the side of the table. Christ College | Mount Carmel College | Women’s Christian College | Loyola College | Fergusson have the courage to take risks, explore the world Stimulating!” “What I got from the YIF and create my own life rather than accept the College | Jadavpur University | Tata Institute of Social Sciences | Grant Medical College | IIM | - Peeyush Khare, Fellow was a simple learning that trash thrown at me. For the wonderful souls I have NDA | Center for Environmental Planning and Technology | Narsee Monjee College of Commerce 2015 one doesn't need to agree met, for a year filled with memories and for finding and Economics | Delhi Technological University | Middlebury College | Toulouse School of with something in order to myself, many thanks to the Young India Fellowship Economics | University of California | University of Pennsylvania | Sciences Po | Shri Ram College benefit from it.” for believing in me.” - Praveen Khangta, of Commerce | Gujarat National Law University | Ohio Wesleyan University | MICA - Sai Krishna Iyer, Fellow, 2014 Fellow 2014 4 5 Meet the Fellows Fellows Speak
“I was once told that those The Young India Fellows are a group of 'first among equals', selected through a rigorous and nation-wide “Since YIF ended I had a huge list of things to do. I wanted to move to Kashmir and who follow the crowd usually do farming or something related to heritage and history. I started researching and search for passionate achievers with a desire to bring about change. The Fellowship fosters India's get lost. I am glad to be lost found a treasure of proverbs in Kashmiri and I started illustrating and translating academic, social and business leaders of tomorrow through a multidisciplinary liberal education. The with the right crowd to make them in a blog. It got a lot of attention and from that I also got around 20 volunteers number of applicants to the Fellowship has been increasing consistently every year. In 2015, the number of the right choices. I also believe from all over willing to work in heritage. I have started a heritage project that that one knows oneself only registered applicants was 18344, almost four times of that in the inaugural year of 2011. To meet this focuses on oral traditions, history and the architectural legacy of Kashmir. when he is lost. An awesome increasing demand, the number of seats has now been increased to 225. The Alumni are now 450 strong. Over the last month I got an academic paper published and got accepted to two journey ahead, in search of The Fellows reflect India's geographical diversity and a rich mix of backgrounds. From engineering to conferences, one at the Imperial College in London for July next year and one in self at the Young India fashion design, film to agriculture, medicine to art, and law to journalism, this cross flow of ideas and Prague this year. My paper was on Identity and Orientalism in arts. The work I'm Fellowship 2014-15.” doing also revolves around ethnography. I now think that I shall be applying for a learning from others is as invaluable as the more formal education they receive. - Abhinay Somani, Fellow Masters in Anthropology and I am extremely excited. For all this, I have you to 2015 thank. Else, I'd still have been sitting in front of excel feeling sorry about my life. Thank you so much for the most stimulating year of my life. In short, thank you for giving me the courage to change it.” "If there was a specific - Onaiza Drabu, Fellow 2014, in a letter to Founding-Dean Pramath Sinha degree we got at the end of the year, I fear the Fellowship would have been “Maybe this is what I should do! I might be good at just that. The beauty of this that! I never thought this could be so interesting! It's experience is that it cannot just been a week since we began and such be explained, cannot be “Being born and brought realisations have already flooded my mind and soul. pinned down as being up in a South India village, Looking forward to a year at Young India merely a degree. I was so scared when I Fellowship!” YIF! You have changed the started the journey of the - Danish Mir, Fellow 2015 course of 100 lives in one Young India Fellowship. go...intertwined us in ways However, now, I feel I am unthinkable. If this one year “You build a Trebuchet and you orchestrate a Flash Mob. You cross-dress and you write a 3,000 word reborn with each new day. “I like to describe this year at YIF as the was a roller-coaster ride, I essay. You're taught by professors from Yale and Penn and by the 'Wisest Man in India', Andre Beteille. I have discovered an single most productive year of my life. And can't wait for the rest of my Talks by Madeleine Albright and Ramachandra Guha mark the beginning and end of your first term. excitement in learning with a the change in me is evident. I jump at the life and the 99 other stories I Your understanding extends outward and most importantly inwards. You live as one big family of 100. diverse group of people, opportunity of learning anything new. I am will have the honour of You are elated. You have no time to breathe, and you suddenly begin to enjoy that. Memories are so understanding the value of shared constantly on the lookout to meet more and witnessing. How truly pristine, you want to capture everything in monochrome. You're with the right people, in the right place, thoughts and the spirit of more people and visit more and more places. humbling this has been." at the right time.” togetherness. YIF has given a new I strive to put myself in uncomfortable - Tanita Abraham, Fellow life to my broken dreams and situations. And so on and so forth. Thank hidden aspirations. Living every 2014 - Karan Bhola, Fellow, Class of 2014, YIF you! Young India Fellowship! You taught me day with ignited minds and the how to live.” classroom sessions have - Devleena Chatterji, Fellow 2014 Institutions Represented at YIF strengthened my social sensitivity “You go to dine and in a and have instilled in me the minute you find yourself determination to achieve busy discussing “A year ago, I resigned from my service at BPCL, IIT | BITS | NIFT | NID | NIT | Lady Shri Ram College | Miranda House | NALSAR | ILS Law College | my aspirations. “ international politics and - Ashweetha Shetty, and, what a journey it has been! Full of surprises, global economic operations St. Xavier’s College | Symbiosis Law School | JNU | Hindu College | St. Stephen’s College | Asian Fellow 2013 learning, steep falls and soaring flights. At the end with the platter pushed to College of Journalism | St. Francis College for Women | SRM University | Jamia Millia Islamia | of a year, I am extremely happy and spirited. I the side of the table. Christ College | Mount Carmel College | Women’s Christian College | Loyola College | Fergusson have the courage to take risks, explore the world Stimulating!” “What I got from the YIF and create my own life rather than accept the College | Jadavpur University | Tata Institute of Social Sciences | Grant Medical College | IIM | - Peeyush Khare, Fellow was a simple learning that trash thrown at me. For the wonderful souls I have NDA | Center for Environmental Planning and Technology | Narsee Monjee College of Commerce 2015 one doesn't need to agree met, for a year filled with memories and for finding and Economics | Delhi Technological University | Middlebury College | Toulouse School of with something in order to myself, many thanks to the Young India Fellowship Economics | University of California | University of Pennsylvania | Sciences Po | Shri Ram College benefit from it.” for believing in me.” - Praveen Khangta, of Commerce | Gujarat National Law University | Ohio Wesleyan University | MICA - Sai Krishna Iyer, Fellow, 2014 Fellow 2014 4 5 An Inspired Curriculum & Innovative Pedagogy Professional Development Courses We Teach Experiential Learning Module The YIF curriculum is a rich mix of courses that build perspective, develop critical thinking and problem- The Experiential Learning Module (ELM) has been designed to complement academic work with real solving skills. These courses are taught by some of the most inspiring faculty from around the world. work experience. Fellows undertake an eight month-long engagement with an organisation throughout the year at the programme. These projects are offered by companies, organisations and institutions from Sociological Reasoning, Andre Beteille, Professor Emeritus, Sociology, Delhi School of Economics | various sectors. Foundations of Leadership, Dwight Jaggard, Professor and Director, Centre for Advanced Study, University of Pennsylvania | Reason and the Making of Modern India, Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Historian, Author, Vice Chancellor, Ashoka University | Shakespeare and the World, Jonathan Gil Sample ELM Projects at YIF Harris & Madhavi Menon, Professors in English, Ashoka University | Political Economy of India's Abott India | Action for Ability Development and Inclusion | American India Foundation - Rickshaw Development, Mihir Shah, Member, Planning Commission of India | Leadership for the New Economy, Sangh | AZB & Partners | Baichung Bhutia Football School | British High Commission: Low Carbon Kenwyn Smith, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Wharton School | Group Dynamics | Kenwyn Supply Chains | Central Square Foundation Centre for Civil Society | Centre for Political Data at Ashoka Smith, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Wharton School & Flora Taylor, Columbia University, Univeristy | Chai Point | Cinemad | Cipla | Council for Environment, Energy & Water | Development Teacher’s College | Making sense of Indian elections, Gilles Verniers, Assistant Professor, Ashoka Office of Shri Naveen Jindal | Earthy Goods Foundation | Evalueserve | FutureBrands | Harley-Davidson University | Economics & Public Policy, A.K. Shiva Kumar, Development Economist and Visiting India | Headlines Today | India Innovation Centre | International Finance Corporation | Kalam Professor, Harvard University and ISB, Hyderabad | International Relations, Devesh Kapur & Eswaran Foundation – Social Stock Exchange | LaUltra | MP Jayant Sinha's Office | MP Rajiv Gowda's Office | Sridharan, Centre for Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania | Art Appreciation, Anunaya Mapping India’s Global Investment Footprint | Media for Change | McKinsey Global Institute | Microsoft | Chaubey, Artist and Principal, College of Arts and Crafts, Patna University | Mathematical Thinking and G.R.I.D. Rural Electrification | Media for Change, Natural Justice | National Rural Livelihoods Mission | Writing, Maya Saran, Assistant Professor, Ashoka University | Gender and Culture in Bombay Cinema, Observer Research Foundation Perfect Relations | PRATHAM | Prayas – JAC | Project Niveshi | Project Geetanjali Chanda, Senior Lecturer, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies Programme, Yale University | ‘viSparsh’ - Assisting the Visually Impaired | PRS India | Quidich – A Bird's Eye View | Rajiv Gandhi Essentials of Business, Arjun Uppal, Vice President Corporate Affairs at DCM Shriram Ltd | Writing Foundation | Samagra | Samaj Pragati Sahayog | Shakespeare and Queer Theory | Shoshit Samadhan Course, Mandakini Dubey, Visiting Faculty, IIT, Delhi | Mind & Behaviour, Kranti Saran, Faculty, Kendra | Shri. Naveen Jindal's Office of Development | Sunborne Energy Technologies | The Council for Ashoka University | Ulises A. Meijas, Associate Professor, SUNY Oswego | Dr. Rudra Chaudhuri, Senior Energy, Environment & Water | Young Africa Fellowship Programme Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Mentoring Young India Fellows have the unique privilege of being mentored by distinguished leaders, academics and Lectures and Guest Sessions practitioners from India and abroad. Mentors are committed to counselling Fellows on their professional Lectures by inspiring scholars, role models and global achievers create a parallel academic curriculum at aspirations and personal development goals. YIF. Since the launch of the programme, more than 400 inspiring individuals have addressed and interacted Mentors include: Gautam Sen, Automobile Journalist and Author; Pramod Bhasin, Fonder, Genpact; with the Young India Fellows. Piyush Tewari, Founder, Save Life Foundation; Ester Martinez, Co-founder and MD, People Matters His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama | Madeleine K. Albright, Former US Secretary of State | Kaushik Media; Bedabrata Pain, Former NASA Scientist and Film Maker; Melanie Bowen, Global Business Basu, Chief Economist, World Bank | Norman Atkins, Co-founder & CEO, Teacher U | Raghuram Rajan, Executive, Education and Consulting; Rehan Khan, Managing Director, Abbot; Patrick French; Writer Governor, RBI | Nandan Nilekani, Chairman, Unique Identification Authority of India | Prannoy Roy, Co- and Historian; Kiran Bir Sethi, Founder, Design for Change and the Riverside School; Akshay Mangla, Chairperson, Co-founder and Mentor, NDTV | Robert Swan, OBE, Polar Explorer | Arjun Appadurai, Social-Cultural Anthropologist, New York University | Eduardo D. Glandt, Professor and Dean, School of Associate Professor, Harvard Business School; Ritu Dalmiya, Celebratory Chef and Restaurateur. Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania | Ramachandra Guha, Historian, Writer & Columnist | Kaushik Workshops Basu, Chief Economist, To develop and equip the Young India Fellows for professional work, the Fellowship facilitates regular World Bank and workshops in technical and soft skills. These workshops range from Excel and Power Point Presentations Professor of Economics, to oral and written communication skills and from Resume building to interviewing for jobs. Cornell University | Ireena Vittal, Partner at McKinsey & Co | Ashoka Centre for Entrepreneurship Rajdeep Sardesai, The Centre for Entrepreneurship (CfE) is designed to be the hub for all entrepreneurial activities and Consulting editor at India endeavours for Fellows, Faculty and Founders. CfE boasts of having some of the most successful Today group | Dr. Shashi entrepreneurs in the country on its board as mentors, who personally help Fellows grow their start-ups. Tharoor, Eminent The CfE has recently launched an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) programme. The EIR supports the Fellows Parliamentarian and by providing an on-campus incubator for their start-ups and assigning Faculty & Founders to help them. Author. 6 7 An Inspired Curriculum & Innovative Pedagogy Professional Development Courses We Teach Experiential Learning Module The YIF curriculum is a rich mix of courses that build perspective, develop critical thinking and problem- The Experiential Learning Module (ELM) has been designed to complement academic work with real solving skills. These courses are taught by some of the most inspiring faculty from around the world. work experience. Fellows undertake an eight month-long engagement with an organisation throughout the year at the programme. These projects are offered by companies, organisations and institutions from Sociological Reasoning, Andre Beteille, Professor Emeritus, Sociology, Delhi School of Economics | various sectors. Foundations of Leadership, Dwight Jaggard, Professor and Director, Centre for Advanced Study, University of Pennsylvania | Reason and the Making of Modern India, Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Historian, Author, Vice Chancellor, Ashoka University | Shakespeare and the World, Jonathan Gil Sample ELM Projects at YIF Harris & Madhavi Menon, Professors in English, Ashoka University | Political Economy of India's Abott India | Action for Ability Development and Inclusion | American India Foundation - Rickshaw Development, Mihir Shah, Member, Planning Commission of India | Leadership for the New Economy, Sangh | AZB & Partners | Baichung Bhutia Football School | British High Commission: Low Carbon Kenwyn Smith, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Wharton School | Group Dynamics | Kenwyn Supply Chains | Central Square Foundation Centre for Civil Society | Centre for Political Data at Ashoka Smith, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Wharton School & Flora Taylor, Columbia University, Univeristy | Chai Point | Cinemad | Cipla | Council for Environment, Energy & Water | Development Teacher’s College | Making sense of Indian elections, Gilles Verniers, Assistant Professor, Ashoka Office of Shri Naveen Jindal | Earthy Goods Foundation | Evalueserve | FutureBrands | Harley-Davidson University | Economics & Public Policy, A.K. Shiva Kumar, Development Economist and Visiting India | Headlines Today | India Innovation Centre | International Finance Corporation | Kalam Professor, Harvard University and ISB, Hyderabad | International Relations, Devesh Kapur & Eswaran Foundation – Social Stock Exchange | LaUltra | MP Jayant Sinha's Office | MP Rajiv Gowda's Office | Sridharan, Centre for Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania | Art Appreciation, Anunaya Mapping India’s Global Investment Footprint | Media for Change | McKinsey Global Institute | Microsoft | Chaubey, Artist and Principal, College of Arts and Crafts, Patna University | Mathematical Thinking and G.R.I.D. Rural Electrification | Media for Change, Natural Justice | National Rural Livelihoods Mission | Writing, Maya Saran, Assistant Professor, Ashoka University | Gender and Culture in Bombay Cinema, Observer Research Foundation Perfect Relations | PRATHAM | Prayas – JAC | Project Niveshi | Project Geetanjali Chanda, Senior Lecturer, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies Programme, Yale University | ‘viSparsh’ - Assisting the Visually Impaired | PRS India | Quidich – A Bird's Eye View | Rajiv Gandhi Essentials of Business, Arjun Uppal, Vice President Corporate Affairs at DCM Shriram Ltd | Writing Foundation | Samagra | Samaj Pragati Sahayog | Shakespeare and Queer Theory | Shoshit Samadhan Course, Mandakini Dubey, Visiting Faculty, IIT, Delhi | Mind & Behaviour, Kranti Saran, Faculty, Kendra | Shri. Naveen Jindal's Office of Development | Sunborne Energy Technologies | The Council for Ashoka University | Ulises A. Meijas, Associate Professor, SUNY Oswego | Dr. Rudra Chaudhuri, Senior Energy, Environment & Water | Young Africa Fellowship Programme Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Mentoring Young India Fellows have the unique privilege of being mentored by distinguished leaders, academics and Lectures and Guest Sessions practitioners from India and abroad. Mentors are committed to counselling Fellows on their professional Lectures by inspiring scholars, role models and global achievers create a parallel academic curriculum at aspirations and personal development goals. YIF. Since the launch of the programme, more than 400 inspiring individuals have addressed and interacted Mentors include: Gautam Sen, Automobile Journalist and Author; Pramod Bhasin, Fonder, Genpact; with the Young India Fellows. Piyush Tewari, Founder, Save Life Foundation; Ester Martinez, Co-founder and MD, People Matters His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama | Madeleine K. Albright, Former US Secretary of State | Kaushik Media; Bedabrata Pain, Former NASA Scientist and Film Maker; Melanie Bowen, Global Business Basu, Chief Economist, World Bank | Norman Atkins, Co-founder & CEO, Teacher U | Raghuram Rajan, Executive, Education and Consulting; Rehan Khan, Managing Director, Abbot; Patrick French; Writer Governor, RBI | Nandan Nilekani, Chairman, Unique Identification Authority of India | Prannoy Roy, Co- and Historian; Kiran Bir Sethi, Founder, Design for Change and the Riverside School; Akshay Mangla, Chairperson, Co-founder and Mentor, NDTV | Robert Swan, OBE, Polar Explorer | Arjun Appadurai, Social-Cultural Anthropologist, New York University | Eduardo D. Glandt, Professor and Dean, School of Associate Professor, Harvard Business School; Ritu Dalmiya, Celebratory Chef and Restaurateur. Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania | Ramachandra Guha, Historian, Writer & Columnist | Kaushik Workshops Basu, Chief Economist, To develop and equip the Young India Fellows for professional work, the Fellowship facilitates regular World Bank and workshops in technical and soft skills. These workshops range from Excel and Power Point Presentations Professor of Economics, to oral and written communication skills and from Resume building to interviewing for jobs. Cornell University | Ireena Vittal, Partner at McKinsey & Co | Ashoka Centre for Entrepreneurship Rajdeep Sardesai, The Centre for Entrepreneurship (CfE) is designed to be the hub for all entrepreneurial activities and Consulting editor at India endeavours for Fellows, Faculty and Founders. CfE boasts of having some of the most successful Today group | Dr. Shashi entrepreneurs in the country on its board as mentors, who personally help Fellows grow their start-ups. Tharoor, Eminent The CfE has recently launched an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) programme. The EIR supports the Fellows Parliamentarian and by providing an on-campus incubator for their start-ups and assigning Faculty & Founders to help them. Author. 6 7 childhood dream. At YIF he has been selected as an exchange student to Sciences Po, Paris. He recently Beyond YIF published an anthology of short stories, ‘Mango Chutney’.
Young India Fellows have been offered scholarships and admission to some of the world's Mohammad Irfan Dar, Fellow 2012, finished his B.Sc in Biochemistry from the University of leading universities. Kashmir and his Masters in Mass Communication from Jamia Millia University. Irfan is deeply passionate about Kashmir and has regularly worked with orphans in the strife ridden state Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design | Carnegie Mellon University | with a theatre group that performs across India. Also equally passionate about film making, Central European University | Columbia University | Wharton-INSEAD | Cornell University | Duke after graduating from YIF, Irfan set up Red Stone Films, an independent media start up, with University | Geneva Institute | London School of Economics | The School of Oriental and African Studies | another YIF Fellow, Aman Kaleem, Fellow 2013. They want to tell stories and make films to help children University of London | King`s College | Cardiff University | New York University | Sciences Po | University of in Kashmir and other conflict zones grow up in a fearless and constructive environment. Irfan has Oxford | University of Chicago | University of Michigan | University of Illinois | University of Cincinnati | recently been awarded the Commonwealth Professional Fellowship, 2014, for filmmaking in the UK. Stanford Business School | Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy | Tata Institute of Social Sciences | Pavithra S, Fellow 2012, a student of English Literature from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi | Indian Institute of Technology | Christ University | Nanyang Technological University, University of Delhi and a Print Journalism student from Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, Singapore | The National University of Singapore | Erasmus Mundus Scholarship | The Commonwealth Pavitra has worked for The Hindu as an editorial intern. During the Fellowship, she worked Scholarship | Chevening Scholarships | Fulbright Scholarship | The Echoing Green Global Fellowship | The on conceptualizing and creating the Young Africa Fellowship for postgraduate students in Charpak Exchange Scholarship | The Charpak Master’s Scholarship | The Emile Boutmy Scholarship, Africa, an adaptation of the Young India Fellowship, as part of the IndiAfrica venture in collaboration with the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. Post YIF, she went on to win the Sciences Po, Paris | British Council Award highly prestigious and coveted Commonwealth Scholarship that is funding her pursuit of an MSc degree in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. Many have been placed at some of the top local and multi-national corporations in India. American Express | Boston Consulting Group | Cipla | Ernst & Young | Financial Express | Future Brands | Ayush Prasad, Fellow 2013, is an Electrical & Electronics Engineer from Manipal Institute of Genpact | Godrej | Henkel | Hidesign | Indian Market Research Bureau | Infibeam | Info Edge (Naukri.com) | Technology. Ayush has worked with TCS Innovation Labs in Bangalore and also with a variety of media agencies. AT YIF, his ELM team developed a model and then piloted a project to Intellecap | McKinsey & Co | Microsoft | Star TV | Tata Power | Technopak | Toshiba | 99labels | 9dot9 deliver skill development and business consulting, to micro entrepreneurs in rural India. Post Mediaworx | Pidilite | Schlumberger | PWC YIF, Ayush was working as an EA with the top management of TCS. He worked for the State Bank of India in Delhi and started financial literacy and financial inclusion work in the slums of New A number have ventured into the not-for-profit, development and sustainability sectors. Delhi, while preparing for his Civil Services Examination. He has secured the 24th rank in the Indian Civil Aavishkaar | AdityaEdu Ventures | Amnesty International | Ashoka Innovators | Azim Premji Foundation | Services Examination 2015 and has been appointed to the Indian Administrative Service in Maharashtra. He has also recently published a paper on Public Policy on the Agricultural Sector in the NUS Singapore BASIX | Indicorps | International Innovation Corps | World Merit Org | Central Square Foundation | Civil journal. He is the Election Commissioner and one of the 5 co-authors of the constitution for the YIF Services | Konrad Adenauer Stiftung | Rule of Law programme, Singapore | National Rural Livelihoods Alumni Association. Mission | Natural Justice | Nav Bharat | Omidyar | Parivartan | Pratham | Prime Minister Rural Development Fund | Pradan | Samaj Pragati Sahayog | Soshit Seva Sansthan | Skills Academy | Solarsis | Takshila Samder Singh, Fellow 2012, studied Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at Education | Teach for India | Teach for Afghanistan | UN Sustainable Solutions Development Network | Global Institute of Technology, Rajasthan. Samder was always interested in writing and entrepreneurship, and dabbled in a few ventures while at college. Post YIF, he worked at India World Bank | World Wildlife Fund Inclusive Innovation Fund and ETI Dynamics as its Head of Impact Investment. Samder has recently been selected as a Reliance Dhirubhai Fellow to pursue an MBA from Stanford A few Fellows have set up their own start-ups. Graduate School of Business. Quidich | Niveshi | Saajha | Cubical Laboratories | Gudgudee, Building Inclusive Playgrounds for Children | Red Stones Films | Pyoopil | Media for Change | Karmantik Simranpreet Singh Oberoi, Fellow 2013, a Mechanical Engineer from MIT, Pune, he is an entrepreneur at heart with a vision to add value to education and create an environment for students to naturally discover their true passion. After a year at YIF, Simranpreet worked Success Stories with a social enterprise, Shoshit Samadhan Kendra, in Patna among Musahars, a rat-catching community of Bihar, lowest of the low in the hierarchy of castes in India. Dhaneesh Jameson, Fellow 2012, graduated from National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, where he won a number of national and international awards for his animation Sonali Chowdhry, Fellow 2015, is an Economics graduate from Miranda House, Delhi films. While at YIF he won the Fulbright Scholarship to pursue his Master’s in Animation at University. She has undertaken research on delivering affordable maternal healthcare through Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. His dream is to set up a world class animation competitive voucher programmes, street vending in the urban economy and on Dalit mutual studio in India for talented animation students in the country. aid societies in India. At YIF, Sonali applied for and received the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. She is on her way to study Economics at the University of Oxford. At the Merton Harsh Snehanshu, Fellow 2014, finished his B.Tech in Engineering and Physics from IIT Delhi. College, Oxford, she intends to examine the implications of international economic integration for He discovered his passion for writing while interning at the University of Glasgow. Harsh hitch developing countries.
8 hiked the length and breadth of India to get to know his country better, thus fulfilling a 9 childhood dream. At YIF he has been selected as an exchange student to Sciences Po, Paris. He recently Beyond YIF published an anthology of short stories, ‘Mango Chutney’.
Young India Fellows have been offered scholarships and admission to some of the world's Mohammad Irfan Dar, Fellow 2012, finished his B.Sc in Biochemistry from the University of leading universities. Kashmir and his Masters in Mass Communication from Jamia Millia University. Irfan is deeply passionate about Kashmir and has regularly worked with orphans in the strife ridden state Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design | Carnegie Mellon University | with a theatre group that performs across India. Also equally passionate about film making, Central European University | Columbia University | Wharton-INSEAD | Cornell University | Duke after graduating from YIF, Irfan set up Red Stone Films, an independent media start up, with University | Geneva Institute | London School of Economics | The School of Oriental and African Studies | another YIF Fellow, Aman Kaleem, Fellow 2013. They want to tell stories and make films to help children University of London | King`s College | Cardiff University | New York University | Sciences Po | University of in Kashmir and other conflict zones grow up in a fearless and constructive environment. Irfan has Oxford | University of Chicago | University of Michigan | University of Illinois | University of Cincinnati | recently been awarded the Commonwealth Professional Fellowship, 2014, for filmmaking in the UK. Stanford Business School | Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy | Tata Institute of Social Sciences | Pavithra S, Fellow 2012, a student of English Literature from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi | Indian Institute of Technology | Christ University | Nanyang Technological University, University of Delhi and a Print Journalism student from Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, Singapore | The National University of Singapore | Erasmus Mundus Scholarship | The Commonwealth Pavitra has worked for The Hindu as an editorial intern. During the Fellowship, she worked Scholarship | Chevening Scholarships | Fulbright Scholarship | The Echoing Green Global Fellowship | The on conceptualizing and creating the Young Africa Fellowship for postgraduate students in Charpak Exchange Scholarship | The Charpak Master’s Scholarship | The Emile Boutmy Scholarship, Africa, an adaptation of the Young India Fellowship, as part of the IndiAfrica venture in collaboration with the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. Post YIF, she went on to win the Sciences Po, Paris | British Council Award highly prestigious and coveted Commonwealth Scholarship that is funding her pursuit of an MSc degree in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. Many have been placed at some of the top local and multi-national corporations in India. American Express | Boston Consulting Group | Cipla | Ernst & Young | Financial Express | Future Brands | Ayush Prasad, Fellow 2013, is an Electrical & Electronics Engineer from Manipal Institute of Genpact | Godrej | Henkel | Hidesign | Indian Market Research Bureau | Infibeam | Info Edge (Naukri.com) | Technology. Ayush has worked with TCS Innovation Labs in Bangalore and also with a variety of media agencies. AT YIF, his ELM team developed a model and then piloted a project to Intellecap | McKinsey & Co | Microsoft | Star TV | Tata Power | Technopak | Toshiba | 99labels | 9dot9 deliver skill development and business consulting, to micro entrepreneurs in rural India. Post Mediaworx | Pidilite | Schlumberger | PWC YIF, Ayush was working as an EA with the top management of TCS. He worked for the State Bank of India in Delhi and started financial literacy and financial inclusion work in the slums of New A number have ventured into the not-for-profit, development and sustainability sectors. Delhi, while preparing for his Civil Services Examination. He has secured the 24th rank in the Indian Civil Aavishkaar | AdityaEdu Ventures | Amnesty International | Ashoka Innovators | Azim Premji Foundation | Services Examination 2015 and has been appointed to the Indian Administrative Service in Maharashtra. He has also recently published a paper on Public Policy on the Agricultural Sector in the NUS Singapore BASIX | Indicorps | International Innovation Corps | World Merit Org | Central Square Foundation | Civil journal. He is the Election Commissioner and one of the 5 co-authors of the constitution for the YIF Services | Konrad Adenauer Stiftung | Rule of Law programme, Singapore | National Rural Livelihoods Alumni Association. Mission | Natural Justice | Nav Bharat | Omidyar | Parivartan | Pratham | Prime Minister Rural Development Fund | Pradan | Samaj Pragati Sahayog | Soshit Seva Sansthan | Skills Academy | Solarsis | Takshila Samder Singh, Fellow 2012, studied Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at Education | Teach for India | Teach for Afghanistan | UN Sustainable Solutions Development Network | Global Institute of Technology, Rajasthan. Samder was always interested in writing and entrepreneurship, and dabbled in a few ventures while at college. Post YIF, he worked at India World Bank | World Wildlife Fund Inclusive Innovation Fund and ETI Dynamics as its Head of Impact Investment. Samder has recently been selected as a Reliance Dhirubhai Fellow to pursue an MBA from Stanford A few Fellows have set up their own start-ups. Graduate School of Business. Quidich | Niveshi | Saajha | Cubical Laboratories | Gudgudee, Building Inclusive Playgrounds for Children | Red Stones Films | Pyoopil | Media for Change | Karmantik Simranpreet Singh Oberoi, Fellow 2013, a Mechanical Engineer from MIT, Pune, he is an entrepreneur at heart with a vision to add value to education and create an environment for students to naturally discover their true passion. After a year at YIF, Simranpreet worked Success Stories with a social enterprise, Shoshit Samadhan Kendra, in Patna among Musahars, a rat-catching community of Bihar, lowest of the low in the hierarchy of castes in India. Dhaneesh Jameson, Fellow 2012, graduated from National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, where he won a number of national and international awards for his animation Sonali Chowdhry, Fellow 2015, is an Economics graduate from Miranda House, Delhi films. While at YIF he won the Fulbright Scholarship to pursue his Master’s in Animation at University. She has undertaken research on delivering affordable maternal healthcare through Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. His dream is to set up a world class animation competitive voucher programmes, street vending in the urban economy and on Dalit mutual studio in India for talented animation students in the country. aid societies in India. At YIF, Sonali applied for and received the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. She is on her way to study Economics at the University of Oxford. At the Merton Harsh Snehanshu, Fellow 2014, finished his B.Tech in Engineering and Physics from IIT Delhi. College, Oxford, she intends to examine the implications of international economic integration for He discovered his passion for writing while interning at the University of Glasgow. Harsh hitch developing countries.
8 hiked the length and breadth of India to get to know his country better, thus fulfilling a 9 Life at YIF In Search of Excellence Y YIF Selection Process Overview Eligibility The YIF programme is open to all young men and women with: • A recognised undergraduate or postgraduate degree in any discipline • No more than 28 years of age as of 31st May, 2016 • No more than 3 years of work experience • Good academic and extra curricular engagement through school and college
Selection Criteria and Process YIF applicants are evaluated on a combination of their academic record, a sustained demonstration of talent in the domain of their interest and a passion for learning beyond the prescribed curriculum. The evaluation process includes the screening of applications, followed by telephonic and personal interviews which test for critical thinking and communication skills.
Financial Aid The Fellowship is committed to covering, in full or in part, the following: • Tuition fees • All material, including shared text books • Fully furnished residence Application and Admission Calendar for 2016-2017 Admission process for YIF Class of 2017 will start from 20th August, 2015 and close on 29th February, 2016. YIF offers a rolling admission process and is split into two rounds. YIF accepts applications within a specified date-window and selects Fellows from the pool of applications from that round. Please refer to the calendar below for important dates for the two rounds.
Round 1 Round 2 Admissions open on- 20th August, 2015 Admissions open on- 16th Dec, 2015 Last date to submit application- 15th Dec, 2015 Last date to submit application- 29th Feb, 2016 In-person interview for Round 1 applicants- In- person interview for Round 2 applicants- 20th Nov, 2015- 28th Feb, 2016 5th Mar- 15th May, 2016 Final offers to 1st-round applicants- 1st Feb- 28th Feb, 2016 Final offers to applicants interviewed for 2nd round- 15th April- 20th May, 2016 Programme begins for Class of 2016-17: 15th July, 2016 Enquiries: University Campus City Office Plot #2, Rajiv Gandhi Education City No. 2, Green Avenue Street Kundli Green Avenue, Pocket D-3 Haryana - 131028 (India) New Delhi- 110070 (India) (M): +91 9958293745 | +919810172805 (O): +91 1165652645
Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.youngindiafellowship.com 10 11 Life at YIF In Search of Excellence Y YIF Selection Process Overview Eligibility The YIF programme is open to all young men and women with: • A recognised undergraduate or postgraduate degree in any discipline • No more than 28 years of age as of 31st May, 2016 • No more than 3 years of work experience • Good academic and extra curricular engagement through school and college
Selection Criteria and Process YIF applicants are evaluated on a combination of their academic record, a sustained demonstration of talent in the domain of their interest and a passion for learning beyond the prescribed curriculum. The evaluation process includes the screening of applications, followed by telephonic and personal interviews which test for critical thinking and communication skills.
Financial Aid The Fellowship is committed to covering, in full or in part, the following: • Tuition fees • All material, including shared text books • Fully furnished residence Application and Admission Calendar for 2016-2017 Admission process for YIF Class of 2017 will start from 20th August, 2015 and close on 29th February, 2016. YIF offers a rolling admission process and is split into two rounds. YIF accepts applications within a specified date-window and selects Fellows from the pool of applications from that round. Please refer to the calendar below for important dates for the two rounds.
Round 1 Round 2 Admissions open on- 20th August, 2015 Admissions open on- 16th Dec, 2015 Last date to submit application- 15th Dec, 2015 Last date to submit application- 29th Feb, 2016 In-person interview for Round 1 applicants- In- person interview for Round 2 applicants- 20th Nov, 2015- 28th Feb, 2016 5th Mar- 15th May, 2016 Final offers to 1st-round applicants- 1st Feb- 28th Feb, 2016 Final offers to applicants interviewed for 2nd round- 15th April- 20th May, 2016 Programme begins for Class of 2016-17: 15th July, 2016 Enquiries: University Campus City Office Plot #2, Rajiv Gandhi Education City No. 2, Green Avenue Street Kundli Green Avenue, Pocket D-3 Haryana - 131028 (India) New Delhi- 110070 (India) (M): +91 9958293745 | +919810172805 (O): +91 1165652645
Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.youngindiafellowship.com 10 11 “Young India Fellowship Programme embodies the best values in higher education. These values transcend nationalities and transcend fields. I wish I could be enrolled here myself! I regret I can't. I will enjoy it vicariously through these wonderful young people”.
- Eduardo D. Glandt, Professor and Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania
Our Founders
Young India Fellowship has been conceived and developed by a team of like-minded and successful philanthropists with strong academic and professional track records.
Ashok Belani Vinati Kastia CTO, Schlumberger; Chairman, Stanford Board of Earth Partner, AZB & Partners; LLB, National Law School, Sciences; BTech, IIT Delhi; MS, Stanford University Bangalore
Arjun Bhagat Atul Nishar Chairman & CEO, Calibrated Group; BTech, IIT Delhi; MBA, Chairman, Hexaware; Founder, Aptech; BCom& LLB, UCLA University of Bombay
Sanjeev Bikhchandani Jerry Rao Founder & Vice-Chairman, InfoEdge (naukri.com); BA, St. Chairman, Value and Budget Housing; Founder, Mphasis; Stephen's; MBA, IIM Ahmedabad BSc, University of Madras; MBA, IIM Ahmedabad; MBA, University of Chicago Puneet Dalmia MD, Dalmia Cements; BTech, IIT Delhi; MBA, IIM Sunish Sharma Bangalore MD, General Atlantic; BCom, Delhi University; MBA, IIM, Kolkata Ashish Dhawan Former Senior MD, ChrysCapital Investment Advisors; CEO, Pramath Raj Sinha Central Square Foundation; BS, Yale University; MBA, Founder & MD, 9.9 Media; Founding Dean, ISB; BTech, IIT Harvard Business School Kanpur; PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Ashish Gupta Saurabh Srivastava COO, Evalueserve; BTech, IIT Delhi; MBA, Carnegie Mellon Chairman, Indian Angel Network; BTech, IIT Kanpur; MS, University Harvard University
Vineet Gupta N. V. Tyagarajan MD, Jamboree Education; BTech, IIT Delhi CEO, Genpact; BTech, IIT Mumbai; MBA, IIM Ahmedabad
Rakesh Jaggi SiddharthYog President, Schlumberger; BTech, IIT Delhi Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Xander Group; BA, Delhi University; MBA, Harvard Business School
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