I captured this entry on 2025-02-02 reflecting how Kalpana Chawla’s example inspires my mentorship philosophy.
Such an inspiration Kalpana Chawla!
She made sure 2 students would get to visit NASA every year.
Each of us whatever heights we have achieved can possibly mentor 2 people every year to push them to next stage.
I will leverage the networks at Thapar Innovate, Innovation Mission Punjab and Upekkha to find mentor‑mentee pairs.
These institutions have motivated me to support 2 startups in tier 2 and 3 cities which has huge potential to create 1000s employment opportunities there itself reduce migration to metros such as #bengaluru indirectly helping metros
My concrete decisions are to mentor two people each year and to back two tier‑2/3 startups, aiming to generate thousands of local jobs and curb migration to metros.