Mrinal Singh

Mrinal grew up in a rural village in the foothills of Himachal Pradesh and has spent much of his adult life in motion, living across different parts of India, collecting experiences, and trusting the instinct to try new things. When he joined the Teach For India Fellowship in Delhi in 2017, that instinct was exactly what drove him: an intention to take on something challenging, something that could create impact, however momentary, on the pale blue dot. 

 

The Fellowship was demanding, and Mrinal is candid about that. His cohort, the 2017 Delhi community, gave him the peer support he needed to keep going, while his Students, whom he taught Grade 10 Science in Sangam Vihar, pushed him to show up with greater thought, rigour, and care each day. Their pace, their questions, and their willingness to challenge him meant he had to arrive prepared, not with one plan but with several. Over time, the Fellowship's lessons crystallised in unexpected ways: lesson planning became due diligence, authenticity became integrity, and difficult conversations taught him forgiveness and acceptance, for others and for himself. 

 

His Chapter Committee journey was, once again, born from that same desire to try something new. Having already built community in his workplace, he saw the Alumni association as another space to experiment: to structure ambiguity, to move a diverse group of people toward a shared purpose, and to discover what leadership looks like when the work is entirely voluntary and the stakes are entirely human. What he found was that consistency is itself a form of leadership.