Pratyush Rudra is an undergraduate Sociology student at Hindu College, Delhi, with a keen interest in storytelling. He has presented papers at various national and international conferences and published articles in peer-reviewed academic journals. As a research intern at the Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), he studied participatory action research projects, examining their role in the context of 鈥渒nowledge democracy鈥�. An amateur filmmaker, Pratyush aims to explore political change through visual narratives, blending creativity with critical inquiry. He plans to use both academic research and creative storytelling to understand people and what drives them towards action. Through the Young India Fellowship, Pratyush wants to learn from diverse ways of thinking, meet passionate people, and explore everything he could not before鈥攆rom music and film to statistics and journalism.