Kathan Shah
About Candidate
To study & connect dots inter-disciplinarily in order to draw novel interpretations & conclusions about history, preferably indulging into its sister fields and seemingly abstract far-off disciplines like psychology, philosophy & economics.
· Finding parallels in histories of empires across different continents
· Critical examination of historical narratives, taking into account the confirmation biases of historians themselves
· Attempting to link inter-disciplinary cause-webs to efficiently understand complex human realities, especially their base- education system.
· Writing & editing blogs, essays, reports & articles, particularly alternate histories
· Examining cause-effect relationship of between a given set of events, possibly looking for its equivalent in other country
· Experimenting with various teaching techniques in different permutations & combinations
Former Research Assistant | Maritime Navigation, ‘Crossing Indian Ocean, maritime knowledge and memory of gulf of Kutch’, Ministry of Education, IKS division, Centre at Somaiya Vidyavihar University, under Dr. Chhaya Goswami.
Former Teacher’s Assistant | Study Material Compilation project under the esteemed faculty Dr. Gaurav Sanjay Gadgil.
Former Research Intern | Maritime History Society, Indian Navy Noorbhoy Building, Mumbai.
Ex- Consultant | Child Rights for You (CRY foundation)
Won the K. J. Somaiya Star Boy Award for Higher and Technical Education on 3rd December 2024.
Was invited as a resource person at:
National Youth Day event, Ramakrishna Mission Math, Khar (W), to speak about “Relevance of Educational pedagogy of Swami Vivekananda” in front of C. P. Radhakrishnan (Governor of Maharashtra) & Padma Shri Uday Deshpande (General Secretary & Chief Mallakhambh Coach of Samartha Vyáyáma Mandir, Dadar) on 12 January 2025.
Second Technical Session of the One-Day Multidisciplinary National Seminar “Indian Political System: Electoral Process & Voting Behaviour,” organized by Yeshwant Mahavidyalaya, Seloo, on 7th December 2024 to give a critique on the One Nation, One Election reform proposal in the Election Commission of India.
Publications: 9
Experience: 1 year
Location
Education
Semester I GPA = 9.36 (A+ Grade) Semester II GPA = 9.82 (A+ Grade) Semester III GPA = 8.91 (A+ Grade) Semester IV GPA = (awaited) Primary focus: research experience, internships, rapport formation, conferences.
Semester I GPA = 9.60 Semester II GPA = 9.40 80%, Topper
Semester I GPA = 10 (96.16%) Semester II GPA = 10 (94.16%) Semester III GPA = 10 (88.62%) Semester IV GPA = 10 (90.5%) Semester V GPA = 10 (87%) Semester VI GPA = 10 (85.33%) 90.26 %, GOLD MEDALIST
92.8% = 100 in psychology, 82 in Economics, 89 in English, 98 in Political Science, 95 in History
90.4% = 94 in English, 93 in Social Science, 82 in science, 91 in Hindi, 92 in Mathematics
Work & Experience
Provided my consultancy to Team TSAR in their case study work “Poori Padhai, Desh Ki Bhalai: Empowering Girls Through Education”.
Maritime Navigation, ‘Crossing Indian Ocean, maritime knowledge and memory of gulf of Kutch’, Ministry of Education, IKS division, Centre at Somaiya Vidyavihar University, under Dr. Chhaya Goswami. Wrote meeting minutes & concept notes, went to the Kutch field trip, made its exhaustive reports & transcriptions, conducted interviews with locals, made image and textual content out of the Malam Ni Pothis for the community outreach digital repository project, brainstormed for the upcoming La Historia Hackathon, assisted for the preliminary maritime conference.
Study Material Compilation project Under the esteemed faculty Dr. Gaurav Sanjay Gadgil, study materials were developed for exams & perspective development of TYBA students on West Asia, Delhi Sultanate & Royal period of Marathas.
Multi-disciplinary approach field work guided by Umesh Lokhande under an archaeological project of in green hills near Khushivali Ulhasnagar, Kalyan. https://tinyurl.com/2ayc8z99
It is an academic intiative of the Western Naval Command of Indian Navy. Proofreading, researching, blogging and content creation, comparative naval glossary, facilitating events, conducting book fairs, bibliographer
It is an E-magazine initiative of KJSAC. Wrote for and edited the first departmental magazine of History Association of KJSAC. The two write-ups selected were ‘Future of Civilisation’ and satirical poem ‘The Greatest Human Resource Tragedy in the World’.
Content Writing. Taught how to analyze & write articles & blogs to my senior Rahul Kumar, who is a working professional in Tata Steel & aspired to write columns at The Hindu daily.
Influenced students about benefits of taking part in Model United Nations, referred two for conference & internships both
Provided free E-Resources on the allotted themes to the digital library of this fresh New Delhi-based firm established by the Panoramic Photographer of India, Amit Pasricha.
