Escape Velocity Grants

Azmat Fatima is doing her Master’s at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, her course curriculum has mostly been online since the college campus hasn’t opened. She is using her phone for studies. This grant will allow Azmat to purchase a laptop and complete her studies.

Vishal Vishwakarma is doing his bachelor’s in physics and also preparing for Masters in Physics through IIT. He has a keen interest in research. This grant would help him get the access to internet and PC and he will be able to take online classes for the entrance exam.

Avanti is an international sports player from the tribal village Khamancheru in Maharashtra. She is teaching sports to the tribal girls and aims to help them get medals at nationals. With this grant, Avanti will arrange infrastructure. Her grant sponsor:

@makawana

Aman Bansal is an engineering student at IIT Roorkee and aspires to become a software engineer. With the grant, Aman will buy a laptop to learn various new technologies which will help him achieve his dream of becoming a software engineer.

Nikhil Pandey is a second-year B Com student who qualified CA foundation examination by his own efforts. With the grant money, Nikhil will be able to enroll himself in coaching and will be able to achieve his dream of becoming a chartered accountant.

Abhay Pratap aspires to become a scientist in Maths and computing. After having won a silver honor in International Youth Mathematics Competition (IYMC), he is currently preparing for an MSc programme. With this grant Abhay will be purchasing a laptop to take online classes.

Neelika Chakrabarti runs Citta – a mental health initiative along with her day job. With the grant, she is going to run offline workshops to provide free therapy and mental health resources/workshops to students especially from under-privileged and marginalized communities.

Samruddhi Ramesh Deshmukh is a final year MBBS student. She designed a pilot project using a commonly available medicinal plant and will be using the grant money to purchase machinery that’ll help synthesize the medicinal plant for market consumption.

Rohit is from Maharastra and wants to teach tribal women how to make hand sanitizer from mahua plant. Right now, spirit from the plant is drunk as alcohol. He will help teach how to make a higher value product (sanitizer) out of it.

His application -> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bbRy4Dm5MPxg1C4hLvqcAXFFxb_HQW4h/view

Adwait is an aspiring economist. His long-term goal is to work upon a treatise on modern economics in the Indian context, developing “Indian School of Thought” for economics. This grant will help him fund his research (travel and living expenses). https://adwaitr.substack.com