Avinash Pandit

There used to be two exams.

There used to be like a screening exam and a mains exam.

And I'd gotten 6000 rank in each one of those.

Probably was like the worst day of my life when I was let's say 17 years old.

I think I've seen many more worse days in life after that.

But for a 17 year old me, probably it was one of the first failures which I had seen.

I'd always stopped my school.

I used to consider myself pretty brilliant.

And it was literally earth shattering that I could not get into a prestigious institute in India.

I did my engineering from a college called Army Institute of Technology.

It's in Pune.

And after that, life followed, right?

But I've seen so much of life after that, that that one particular exam on that one particular day has stopped mattering later on.

Of course, I mean, it was all of these institutions are the dream of majority of Indians.

I think because of two factors.

One is that they give access to opportunity.

Many of these IITs students vie for because it can literally transform your life.

And that relates to what opportunities these institutions bring later on.

Which is what I'm trying to do, by the way, right?

Democratizing access to opportunities is something which I'm trying to do in my current educational venture.