The Gandhi Fellowship started over a decade and half ago, primarily to develop new-age leadership competencies in young people. The backdrop was the Indian classroom that did a reasonable job of developing technical skills. But creativity and collaboration, communication and empathy, risk-taking and resilience… and all that is material to the real-life world was obscured. A post-Covid world, besieged by Health, Climate and Conflict, finds itself even more fragile. It is volatile, complex and ambiguous: we need much more. If every problem is an opportunity, the 21st Century has unlocked countless opportunities for those who are agile enough to adapt and commit to ongoing learning.

The Gandhi Fellowship is a chance to spark solutions to the problems of a new India, even the world. It is a class with room enough for great leaders to produce more leaders, and not merely followers.