Redrawing India

Redrawing India: The TEACH FOR INDIA Story

Kovid Gupta   Shaheen Mistri

The inspiring, never told before story of Teach For India, one of India’s biggest non-profit organizations

Description

A 19-year-old Bostonian teenager flies into Mumbai with her NRI parents to spend a relaxing summer break. Here she stumbles into a slum community, expecting to encounter paucity, prejudice, and pauperism. Her views are magically transformed when she instead comes across children with eyes full of potential.

In what is nothing less than a cathartic moment, she decides to commit herself to a lifelong battle of educational equity for every Indian child. But tackling India’s biggest hardship is nothing less than performing magic. With courage and perseverance, her movement soon grows from 1 to 100,000 individuals working relentlessly to rewrite India’s history. Numerous college graduates and young professionals trade their cozy corporate careers for challenging lives as teachers in municipal schools.

This is the saga of Teach for India, a living illustration of what is possible when a dream is followed uncompromisingly. It is the anecdotal blueprint on how Teach For India founder Shaheen Mistri transformed her dream of educational equity into a nationwide movement for liberty and justice. It is a tale of taking action into one’s own hands, and carving a space for oneself in the greater solution for utopic India.

About the Author:

Kovid Gupta graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2010 with a BBA in Marketing, BS in Radio-Television-Film, and BA in Hindi. Since then, he has been actively working as a screenwriter and has written for acclaimed serials like Balika Vadhu and Bade Acche Lagte Hain in addition to Bhojpuri soaps. He is also the Founder and CEO of India Kids, a non-profit organization that works to improve the lives of orphaned children across India by empowering college students globally.