Fifteen days. One train. 525 hearts moving together.
A 15-day train through Middle India. Twelve destinations, from Mumbai back to Mumbai, with the people building the country in between.
Journey reference
JY-2026
How it unfolds
From a group chat to a train across India
Three beats. No lecture hall, no itinerary app - just the cohort and the track.
A phone, a group, and a feeling
Jagriti Yatra starts the way most great things do - with a group chat full of restless, capable people who keep saying the same thing: India has so many brilliant lives, yet most of us only meet a handful of them.
Fifteen days by train
So we do the obvious and the unlikely thing. For 15 days we move across the country on a train - the only transport that lets you genuinely see the country slide past you, station after station, city after city.
Built, not taught
The yatra isn't a course. It's a road trip through real lives - meet the farmers, founders, artisans and students the train takes you past, and build something with the people next to you.
What you actually get
Not a course. A road trip through real lives.
The yatra is the train, the towns, and the people in the next berth.
Grassroots India
Step off the map - into the stations, towns and villages that build the real country, and hear it from the people who live it.
A Lifelong Network
Founders, builders, doctors and dreamers - one train car of people who will text you at 2am for the next 20 years.
Learn by Doing
No lectures. You learn by building, talking and travelling with people who are doing, not just saying.
Build Something
Leave with co-founders, ideas and a product that started as a conversation in a train's dining car.
From the cohort
Why they got on the train
In their own words, from the JY26 introductions.
“Swapping spreadsheets for stories for 15 days - making real friends, learning from people building things in places I've never been, and seeing India's diversity up close, one station at a time.”
Raj (Rajkumar) Gudla
Chartered Accountant · Founder, Finex Babylon · Hyderabad, Telangana
“Exploring India beyond the metros to ground my startup in the real conditions of middle India.”
Vaibhav Rakhunde
Founder, Gen-Med Pharma · B.Pharm (Final Year) · Pune, Maharashtra
“Scaling Kadhyam, learning from grassroots entrepreneurs across India, and building a community of my own.”
Snehaa (DraperU)
Lead Community, DraperU India · Cloud Kitchen Founder · Hyderabad, Telangana
The people
A few of the 57
Raj (Rajkumar) Gudla
Chartered Accountant · Founder, Finex Babylon
Hyderabad, Telangana
Chartered Accountant and founder of Finex Babylon Pvt Ltd, making tax, finance and compliance simple - not stressful. Also helps first-time founders get every business registration off the ground.
Snehaa (DraperU)
Lead Community, DraperU India · Cloud Kitchen Founder
Hyderabad, Telangana
Leads community at DraperU India - curating founders, investors and big names into one room. 100+ events hosted, incl. sessions with Jayesh Ranjan IAS, Dr. Anand Govindaluri, Mili Kataria, Abhinav Natte. Runs her cloud kitchen Kadhyam back home in Bengaluru. Curated a 15,000+ community.
The train leaves Mumbai on 23 November.
Meet the cohort, then follow the twelve stops back to Mumbai on 8 December.
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