Rhea Kapoor

Communication design, NID Ahmedabad

I start with a photograph, then decide what the type, paper, and room have to do to keep up. Most of the work lives on campus: a night market poster the hostel still puts up, a monsoon specimen that had to survive damp paper, chairs in an empty studio.

Aisha Rahman

B.Sc. Life Sciences, Ashoka University

I spend more time at water bodies the city forgot than in a lecture hall. The work is counts, weekly notes for a public site, and a thesis on wetland birds in the NCR. I write so a volunteer who was not there can still follow the method.

Kabir Sen

M.Stat, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

I model things the campus already feels: late shuttles in the rain, labs that look empty and are not. The method stays in the note. If I cannot defend a row, I drop it instead of filling it in.

Leela Nair

B.Arch, CEPT Ahmedabad

I draw for heat, dust, and a budget, not for a render that never meets a monsoon. Recent boards: courtyard shade the hostel can afford, a canal-edge studio that respects the flood line, a stall two people can raise without a drill.

Farah Qureshi

Journalism, St. Xavier's College, Mumbai

I report campus and city stories that still have names attached. Recent work: the night canteen after the kitchen closes, CST after the last local, and a monsoon that showed up in the inbox before it hit the street.

Isha Menon

Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay

I ship campus tools that stay small on purpose. One job each: tell you when a dryer is free, show the next laser-cutter slot, warn if two electives clash. No dashboard. The test is whether Hostel 6 stops spamming the group chat.

Tara Joseph

MBBS, Christian Medical College, Vellore

I write clinical and field work so the next person on can use the file. Recent pieces: an OPD wait study that found the token window, not the doctor; an anemia camp across two villages; a rheumatic fever write-up the consultant used on Friday round.

Advait Rao

MA Economics, Delhi School of Economics

I write short policy notes with the numbers attached. If the table is dull, the conclusion stays dull. Recent briefs: a late procurement window in Punjab, a Delhi bus fare freeze, and a college where the scholarship form, not the amount, was the drop-off.

Ananya Shah

B.A. Economics, SRCC

I keep campus money work readable: a society one-pager on holdings, a GST clinic with a checklist, municipal budget tables that say what they say about school capex. No extra adjectives. The file has to stand up in a meeting.