Vasisht, 19, is a third year student at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business

I am from Chennai. I'm a 19 years old. I just finished my third year at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business up in the United States. I'm majoring in finance and information systems. I interned at founding fuel a couple of summers ago. On a more personal level, I'm a huge sports buff, a huge foodie. I wouldn't call myself a movie buff just yet. But I have been watching a little bit more in my free time over the last couple of years.

Not just infrastructure but also responsiveness to user needs

When you know if there is a power cut, let's say here, you've got to call the electricity board a couple times, harass them a little bit. I mean that in the nicest sense of the word. . In the three years that have been there, within an hour, we had a campus wide email sent either from the energy company or from the campus admin themselves, Hey, guys, we are sorting out a shortage situation, we will take care of this. There probably is a better power grid there. But they're also in addition, more responsive, they're a bit more attuned to what you need. So I think that focus is yet to come in, or has come in partially here.

The gap between digital and physical infrastructure

As a country, we've developed world class digital infrastructure, at least in the past 10 years or so You've got, the Aadhaar framework, the India stack framework, we're coming up with the National Health stack. you might have 10 unicorns in the next 10 years that send you an ambulance in 10 minutes. The fact remains is, if it's raining that day, it'll still take you more than 10 minutes to get an ambulance. So there's that mismatch between digital and physical, which is something that's become very apparent.

Inequality: Solutions - education, employment and health

One thing I really want to see changed, Inequality sits at the top of that list. We've read so many stats about how the richest 1% of India, even the world, their wealth has risen by 15%. Whereas the poorest 50%, the poorest sections of society, it's risen only by 3.94%. Two places where we can probably, make the biggest gains on that is going to be education and employment, that is one bucket for me, and health is the other.

So that my, when it comes to healthcare, we can't wait for a crisis. And that's something that really showed itself up and it was heartbreaking to see last May, because I was part of a small team trying to just coordinate resources here. In Chennai. We were trying to, if somebody wanted blood donors Those were really harrowing times because you'd see people that desperate. I understand it's a crisis and understand unprecedented levels, but hopefully we can be a bit more prepared.

Environment - local and national solutions

When it comes to the environment, I believe, you have to do what is within your realm of possibility to help conserve, to help anything. So when it comes to that, it's been, you can start small - have one bin for the compost in your house, one bin for the plastic waste etc. At the country level, I think public transport is a big, big deal when it comes to, cutting down on greenhouse gas emissions.