Born in early 2009, into the West Road residences of Selwyn College, Cambridge (where my parents were medical academic scholars), I remained in Cambridge until late 2019, initially attending 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, engaging in peaceful protests and taking part in productive actions. I simultaneously developed a keen interest in the performing arts and received training in both Western and Hindustani classical vocal traditions, which I have continued to this day. Whilst in Cambridge, I regularly performed as part of the school choir at King's College Chapel and also as part of the St Andrew's Parish Choir in Cherry Hinton, Cambridge.

 

Now aged 16, I hold a competitively won Academic Scholarship (2025-2027) on the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IB-DP) at St Leonards School in St Andrews, Scotland. I have had the opportunity to study at St Leonards for the past five years, leading to an A* average in the mid-2025 GCSE examinations. At St Leonards, I am an active member of the incredible Love’s Angels Choir as well as the schoolwide choir, continuing to train in both Western and Hindustani classical vocals. 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/presenter at five Model United Nations (MUN) Conferences – including at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN-FAO) headquarters in Rome – and I have been recently appointed as a chair of the legal and emergency committees for the 2026 St Leonards MUN Conference. Additionally, from August 2025, I have been selected to serve as 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 – particularly over school holidays – 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 (in partnership with Universidad Iberoamericana in Puebla, Mexico) during the pandemic, which successfully ran online for several years, bringing children together from across the world around the topic of healthy and Sustainable Eating. I now serve as a Lead Global Youth Ambassador for NNEdPro.

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I have had the honour of being the original mind behind the concept of the Mobile Teaching Kitchen (MTK), which started its journey aimed at empowering 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 launched following a successful fundraiser that I co-organised in St Andrews. The MTK is now in Year 8 in India, Year 4 in Mexico, Year 3 in the USA, and Year 2 in the UK. I have been significantly involved in both US and UK adaptations and jointly received the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior (SNEB) International Program Impact Award for the MTK at the SNEB Conference in Atlanta in 2022, following which I was an invited speaker 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 UN-FAO World Food Forum in 2023. Soon after this, I also had the opportunity to undertake a youth leadership workshop at Cordia College and School in Punjab, India.

 

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 communicate socially relevant messages and raise funding/support for MTK operations at the grassroots level. 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.

  

Currently, I am focused on scaling the Little Literacy Library (LLL) model, a grassroots educational resource hub, to new environments, including within the UK. I recently had the honour of receiving a commendation from His Excellency Ram Nath Kovind, the former President of India (2017-2021), for my contributions to the MTK and the LLLs in India during his Presidency. 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.

 

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 Global Essay Competition of the prestigious Oxford-Princeton John Locke Institute, from over 50,000 submissions worldwide.

 

Looking ahead, I am currently studying higher level History, Economics and Literature (with standard level Maths, Biology and Spanish) as part of the IB Diploma and hope to take my emerging knowledge and 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! 😊