Seventeen-year-old student Neel Tripathi founded Pehla Prashn, an initiative bringing philosophical discussions on topics like color and dreams to municipal school classrooms in Mumbai.
Collaborating with the youth NGO Yuva Unstoppable, Tripathi has personally conducted sessions for over 400 students and mentored more than 40 schoolteachers to sustain the program.
The non-competitive program encourages independent thinking and curiosity among children without relying on abstract terminology, grades, or predetermined correct answers.