Zahan Turel , a backend engineer and eighth-generation Zoroastrian priest from Surat, received a grant to digitize his community’s manuscripts and liturgical records before they are lost.

Aditya Vijay , 17, is building Forge , supporting overlooked, self-taught young founders with shared housing, capital, and access.

Dev Goyal received a grant for SCRIPT, exploring whether stylus-based drawing kinematics can support non-diagnostic clinical triage for ADHD, autism, and anxiety.

Adwait Tiwari , 16, a self-taught founder from Indore, is building BharatBahi, a WhatsApp-native AI assistant helping Indian shopkeepers.

Mayukh Goswami and Meher Manda received their grant for a graphic novel examining democratic crises around the world through the lens of a fictional Indian town.

Ajith Chekka is building Oru’el , a physics-enabled intelligence layer to improve the reliability and efficiency of data centers.

Gaurav Kumar , a software engineer and social entrepreneur, is building OncoVault, which turns fragmented…