Siliguri, India · Applying to study economics, 2027 entry
Most of the economics I know, I learnt outside a classroom.
I'm in my final year of school in Siliguri, at the foot of the Himalayas. Before I knew the terms for any of it, I was dealing with it: margins at a jewellery store we ran on Instagram, trust at a charity tournament that a rumour nearly sank, and costing at my family's business.
This site has those stories, an essay on what the rumour taught me, and the full record.
Essay · October 2026 · 7 minute read
The rumour that nearly sank Leo Xtreme
A hundred phone calls couldn't convince players our fundraiser was real. One company name did. What that taught me about signalling, and why reassurance is cheap.
Read the essay →More calls didn't work, because anyone running a scam would have made the same calls.
Leo Xtreme
I proposed it as the first big event for the Leo Club I'd just founded. Registrations stalled, someone called it a scam, and for a week it looked finished. It ended up paying for our food drives.
₹500 entry · ₹10,000 prize · profit to grain, flour and salt
Jewel Paradise
Started with ₹2,500. I kept the stock, the books and the posts. More than 350 pieces sold in five months.
and TallyL Fusion · Siliguri · since 1992
L Fusion
Operations work alongside school at an IT and ELV systems integrator: costing jobs line by line, invoicing, and keeping the records straight.
This year
Full record →| Now | Finishing Class 12, applying to universities in the UK and US, heading the school quiz club, and taking Coursera courses in econometrics and leadership. |
| Oct 2026 | Runner-up, IIAS Management Skills Competition |
| 2026–27 | Joined the Global Membership Team of Leo District 322F, its youngest member |
| Jun 2026 | Completed the Ashoka University Young Scholars Programme in Economics, Finance and Markets (Advanced Stream) |
| 2026 | AP Macroeconomics 5, Microeconomics 5, Calculus AB 4. AP Scholar. |
| Apr 2026 | Won the Indo-Bhutan Friendship Quiz with my school team |