Stories

Stories from the long road forward.

Students, fellows, volunteers and mentors — the people who walked further than anyone expected, and the ones who made it possible.

FeaturedUPSC·Bihar 6 min

First in the family to write the mains

Pooja's father drives an auto in Patna. She just cleared the UPSC prelims. The scholarship paid for the coaching and a mentor.

Skilling·Uttar Pradesh

From a tier-3 college to a TCS desk

Twelve weeks of the BRY skilling program, six rounds of interviews, one offer letter. Aman is the first engineer in his village.

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Welfare·Maharashtra

The voter drive that stuck

A BRY leadership fellowship cohort registered 1,200 first-time voters in three Pune colleges. The model is now being copied in five more cities.

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Mentorship·Rajasthan

A 20-minute call that changed everything

Rohit was about to drop out of B.Sc. and join a relative's shop. A mentorship session walked him back from that decision — and into a data career.

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Leadership·Jharkhand

Leadership that begins on your own street

Six leadership fellows from Khunti ran a year-long sanitation drive that became a model the local panchayat now copies. They started with ₹15,000 and an idea.

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