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Prafull Sawant and his Super 25

The idea of a free learning centre took birth in Sawant's mind while he was still in school

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Geetanjali Krishna
Recently, when I watched the Bollywood movie Super 30, I had a sense of déjà vu. Just a couple of days before I watched the movie, I met Prafull Sawant, a 24-year-old from Mumbai. The son of an auto rickshaw driver father and domestic worker mother, Sawant has been successfully running a free learning and tuition centre in his slum in Powai, Mumbai, since February 2016. When he told me his story, I realised it was even more inspirational like the biopic in which Hrithik Roshan essays the role of an impecunious young man who mentors poor students to crack
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