St. Xavier's College Student of the Year's Graduation Speech by Jahnavi Pandya, born and raised in India, is a national award winning archer, singer, musician, composer, youtuber and social worker. She graduated this year from St Xavier's College, Mumbai majoring in Psychology and was just awarded 'Student of the year.’
She has adapted the 5,000 year old Indian scriptural text, Bhagavad Gita, into English with rhyming verses. She then composed the verses into Indo-Western tunes so the text would appeal to today’s youth and become understandable and has presented it in India and USA.
She was invited to give a presentation on spiritualism and music in Villanova University, Philadelphia for the International Big History Conference, which is a project Bill Gates is personally associated with, in bringing about a change in the academic system all over the world. She was also made a commitee member at the Asian Big History Association, and is one of the youngest members among all experienced professors and scientists.
She is also working with Padma Shri Dr. Sudarshan on the contribution of the Vedas to create a universal identity.
For the last nine years she has also been working on suicide awareness/prevention. She voluntarily helps 31 orphan girls, and in two years has collected over four lakh rupees (six thousand dollars) through crowd funding done through facebook and other social media sources. She has also reached to over 6 lakh students helping them deal with board exam stress through her YouTube channel - Jahnavi Pandya.
She can be reached at jahnavipandya11@gmail.com
