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Featured discussions
Study Abroad
Chevening vs Rhodes — honest comparison from someone who applied to both
Different selection cultures entirely. Here's what no one tells you about the interview rounds.
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Entrepreneurship
Raising a pre-seed as a solo female founder — what actually moved the needle
After 96 rejections and 4 yeses, here's the warm-intro playbook that finally worked.
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The Board
Hand-picked opportunities
Fellowship
Rhodes Scholarship — Oxford
The Rhodes Trust · Global
Fully funded
Deadline · Oct 1
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Schwarzman Scholars — Tsinghua
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Deadline · Sep 20
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Chevening Scholarships
UK Foreign Office · UK
Fully funded · 1 yr Masters
Deadline · Nov 5
Scholarship
Fulbright Foreign Student Program
U.S. Department of State · USA
Fully funded
Deadline · Varies
The Directory
Mentors worth meeting
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Ananya Iyer
Venture Capital · Peak XV Partners · Bangalore
Principal investing in Indian consumer & fintech. IIM-A alum.
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Diya Mehta
Software Engineering · Google · Bangalore
Senior SWE on Search infra. IIT Bombay '18.
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Saanvi Reddy
Founder · Karya AI · Hyderabad
Building AI data tooling. YC W25. Ex-Microsoft Research.
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Priya Sharma
Investment Banking · Morgan Stanley · Mumbai
VP in TMT M&A. SRCC + ISB.
IBDISBMumbai
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Ishita Kapoor
Product · Razorpay · Bangalore
Lead PM on neobanking. Speaks at WomenInProduct India.
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Tara Subramanian
AI Research · Microsoft Research · Bangalore
Researcher on multilingual NLP for Indian languages.
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