Mr. Ashish Shrivastava is our local host in Sukma district, Chhattisgarh. He belongs to Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh and was brought up Singrauli in Madhya Pradesh. After completing his engineering in Bhopal, he worked at Infosys in Pune for four years. After working for 8 long years, he quit the corporate world and started travelling across India. The life he had in Pune and all the other places he worked at didn’t bring him joy. While other youths would be weekending or enjoying

"I come from a small village of Chakan, near Pune. During my graduation days at Fergusson College, I’ve been a part of Gyan Setu. I was at Jnana Prabodhini’s leadership development course while preparing for competitive exams, where I got to know about Gyan Setu and its visits to new states for conducting science experiments. I had never visited any states with the purpose of giving back something, plus I have always loved teaching. It was a win-win situation for me. But whe

“Most of my education was in Pune. I did my master’s in Physics and recently completed my Ph.D. in the same field. The seeds of doing something for society were sown in me while I was studying at Jnana Prabodhini. On weekends I and my friends used to volunteer at ‘Neehar’ which is a rehabilitation center for the children of the red-light area workers, which is where I got that connection from my cores that I should give back something to the less fortunate. I was fortunate to