FOUNDING COHORT • AUGUST 2027

A year in Bihar that will change your life

Join a career-defining fellowship at Bihar’s first globally benchmarked institution. Learn from inspiring faculty, build real-world capabilities, and discover new possibilities for what you can do, build, and become.

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Our Story

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Curriculum that builds your future

Data

To uncover patterns, evaluate choices and make better decisions

AI

To use emerging technology to create, solve and innovate

Design

To define problems, explore possibilities and prototype solutions

Business

To sharpen insights, make choices and shape future growth

Leadership

To bring people together, align teams and turn ideas into action

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DATA • AI • DESIGN • Business • LEADERSHIP

A year of building, thinking,
and becoming ready for a changing world

5 CR

In Scholarships

1200+

Contact Hours

150+

Hours Of Career Prep

30+

Faculty Who Push You

interdisciplinary,
future-READY CURRICULUM

Think across tech, business, human behavior, and systems — so you can build, lead and adapt in a fast-changing world.

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inspiring, World-class FACULTY & Mentors

Learn from founders, academics, business leaders and innovators who challenge you deeply, invest in your growth, and push you to think bigger.

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Hands-on, highly experiential learning formats

Build an AI product, find your first users, launch a D2C brand and work on real-world projects through internships and immersive industry experiences.

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Tech-FIRST, Ai-embedded Tools mastery

Master tools such as Claude, Figma, Cursor and Excel to analyse problems, build prototypes, automate workflows and turn ideas into real-world solutions.

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enabling, bEST-IN-CLASS campus & student life

Live in a residential environment designed for modern learners with a strong community — fitness facilities, mental health support, and recreational spaces.

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PERSONALIZED, Adaptive CAREER preparation

Leverage 150+ hours of personalised career preparation to explore pathways across startups, product, consulting, and social impact leadership.

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Inspiring Faculty

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Dr A K Shiva Kumar

Development Economist, Kennedy School of Government Harvard University; Visiting Professor, ISB; Advisor, UNICEF

Dr Punita Kumar-Sinha

Founder, Pacific Paradigm; PhD, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Independent Director, Tata Capital; Previously: Board Member, Infosys

Dr Santosh Gautam

Professor, Development and Global Health Economics; Director, Doctoral Program in Sustainable Development, University of Notre Dame

Dr Nishith Prakash

Dean’s Professor, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Department of Economics; Co-Director, Global Action for Policy Initiative, Northeastern University

Dr Prachi Mishra

Professor, Economics, Ashoka University; ex-Chief, Systemic Issues Division, IMF; Previously: India Chief Economist, Goldman Sachs; PhD, Columbia University

Dr Isabel Salovaara

PhD, Stanford University; Gates Cambridge Scholar, Cambridge University; Previously: Assistant Director, Jindal Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Dr Vinay Singh

Quantitative Researcher; Adjunct Faculty, Columbia University; MBA, Cornell University; PhD, Physics, Yale University

Dr Saumya Sindhwani

Assistant Professor, Strategy & OB (Practice), ISB; Previously: Aon Hewitt; BBC; PhD, Manchester Business School; M.Sc. London School of Economics

Dr Bibek Banerjee

Professor, Entrepreneurship & Management, Ashoka University; Previously: faculty at IIM Ahmedabad, Shiv Nadar University, IMT Ghaziabad

Jaspreet Bindra

Founder, AI & Beyond; MPhil, Cambridge University; Previously: Tata Administrative Services, Microsoft; Columnist, Hindustan Times/Mint

Seema Chowdhry

Director, Centre for Learning & Teaching Excellence, ISB; Visiting Faculty, ISPP. Master In Public Administration, Lee Kuan Yew School Of Public Policy

Somak Ghoshal

Columnist, Mint; Faculty, BITS School of Management; Previously: Commissioning Editor, Penguin Books; Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University

Siddarth Menon

Former CMO, Epigamia (Drum Foods); Previously: Colgate-Palmolive, Coca-Cola; MBA, IIM Calcutta

Pallavi Dhody

Founder, Draftt Brand & Content Studio; Senior Advisor, Brand & Marketing, Jetri; Former Founder & CEO, Highr

Dr Neeraj Prasad

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam

Founders & Governing Council

Dr Ajay Kumar

MD, FRCP (Edinburgh), Physician & Diabetologist

Uday Shankar

Vice Chairman, JioStar; ex-CEO, Star India; ex-President, Walt Disney Company Asia Pacific

Dr Pramath Raj Sinha

Chairperson, Board of Trustees, Ashoka University

Dr Rukmini Banerji

Senior Advisor, Pratham Education Foundation; ex-CEO Pratham

Dr Rajiva Ranjan Das

Consultant Surgeon, UK National Health Service; Royal College of Surgeons

Manjari Jaruhar

Bihar’s First Woman IPS; Former Special DG, CISF; Advisor, TCS, Isprava; Author, ‘Madam Sir’

Anuradha Shankar

IPS (Retd); Chairperson CESCI India; Member, AMI Board Amsterdam; Board Member, National Youth Project

Tripurari Sharan

Former Chief Secretary, Bihar; Former Director General, Doordarshan; Former Director, FTII

Shivanand Sinha

ex-Partner, McKinsey & Company

Shreyasi Singh

Founding Managing Partner, Jetri; ex-CEO, Harappa; ex-President, upGrad Enterprise

Build capabilities, not just credentials

The Pravaha Fellowship helps you become the kind of professional who can thrive wherever your ambitions take you.

Pragmatic Problem SolverS

Someone who thinks and does. The work is not done until something is working.

Entrepreneurial & Self-Driven Builder

Restless, activated, with an urgency to convert ambition into action.

contextually aware, globally fluent

Understands the world as it is becoming, effectively connects the local to the global.

EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT, EMPATHETIC OPERATOR

Leads with character as much as with capability, confidence, curiosity, and camaraderie.

TECHNOLOGY-FORWARD PRACTITIONER

Fluent in the tools of modern professional life, leveraging tech for productivity and impact.

SYSTEM AWARE, IMPACT DRIVEN OPTIMIST

Stays ambitious for places, causes & systems that deserve more.

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The Campus

A thoughtfully designed residential campus where immersive learning, recreation and well-being come together to prepare you for the possibilities ahead