Breaking Barriers. Building Bridges.

Here's something most people don't know about me: the reason I do any of this, all the Wikipedia projects, the health campaigns, the policy work, traces back to ice cream. I grew up with severe asthma in India. Cold food could trigger an attack. So ice cream was off limits.

That made me curious. I wanted to understand my own body, to figure out if there was some way to manage asthma so I could just be a normal kid. But when I went looking for medical information, almost everything was in English. The gap between what was known about my condition and what was available in my language felt impossibly wide.

So I taught myself English. Not for school, not for some grand career plan. I learned English because I wanted to eat ice cream. That stubborn little desire set everything in motion. I found the healthcare information I needed, and I got better.

But once my health improved, I couldn't stop thinking about others in the same situation. Kids who were sick and couldn't find answers in a language they understood. So I started building projects to fix that. I was pretty young, and nobody wanted to fund a random kid's idea about translating health knowledge. Doors kept closing. Then the Gates Foundation said yes. That changed everything.

What started with ice cream became a mission. The rest of the story, how it led to Wikipedia, Harvard, the United Nations, MIT, and beyond, unfolds across the chapters on this site.