In Their Own Hands
Students who decided to take matters into their own hands.
They didn't wait for permission. They started projects, organised events, shipped work, and made decisions. These are their stories.
The concept
Not inspiration.
Evidence.
This is not a collection of "inspiring stories" about talented people doing impressive things. This is documentation. Students from ordinary colleges, with ordinary resources, who made a specific decision: to act before they felt ready.
Every episode follows the same structure: What they decided. What they did. What happened. No motivational framing. Just the steps.
The decision
What specific moment or choice set things in motion.
The steps
Exactly what they did, in order. No hand-waving.
What happened
The real outcome. Not a fairy tale — just what changed.
Latest Episode
Build Before You Figure It Out
Aksa Rose
"Build before you figure it out."
A second-year B.Tech student from Trivandrum who went from exploring to building — shipping projects, coordinating hackathons, and leading a women-in-tech community at her college.
These are not exceptional students. These are students who decided to act.
Coming up
More stories in the making
We're documenting more students who took matters into their own hands. Each story follows the same format: the decision, the steps, and what happened.
Episode 02
Recording soon
Episode 03
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Episode 04
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