Having worked with Aprajita and the Haiyya team for the past 4-5 years, I have come to appreciate their leadership, courage and creativity – and resilience – in translating their values into collective action. They combine learning and doing in a way that is critical for developing the capacity to engage with today’s ever-changing challenges. By engaging with some of modern India’s most challenging problems and developing the capacity of youthful leadership to engage people in solving them, theirs is a pathway forward. When we talk it feels as if I’m having a conversation with the future.