“While applying to Ashoka, I was scared of even being accepted because I knew my father could not afford the fees. My father owns a medical shop and my mother is a homemaker. They were born into very conservative families. My siblings and I were fortunate because they, unlike our extended family, kept our education a priority. Our family wasn’t financially well off and educating five children put a considerable strain on my father’s meagre salary. I was lucky that this dilemma was solved by the IDFC FIRST Bank scholarship.”

IDFC FIRST Bank scholar and student of Young India Fellowship at Ashoka University