Talking about it at home

During 2025–26, Krish joined the Foundation Program of Gender Education run by Hariraj Charitable Trust in Amreli, under the guidance of Dhirajlal Vagadiya and his team.

The course is fifteen modules. It covers human rights, gender equality, adolescent health, healthy relationships, awareness of violence, HIV, and questions of sexuality and identity. One of the sessions explains the biology of XX and XY chromosomes — and what struck him about it was the conclusion that follows: that nothing in it makes one person naturally superior to another. He came out of the course holding firmly that boys and girls are owed the same rights and the same respect.

What he did next is the part worth recording. He did not keep it to himself. He passed it on to friends who had not been able to attend the sessions, and got other children talking about it through discussion and games.

At home he told his parents what he had learned, session by session, as he learned it. They were proud of him, and said so, and encouraged him to keep going. People around him noticed the way he was arguing and behaving, and remarked on it.

He says the course made him more confident, and less afraid to say what he thinks. He is thankful to the people who taught him — Dilipbhai and Hardikbhai — for planting, as he puts it, the seeds of the change.

In his own words:

With the right guidance, even a young teenager can bring meaningful change to society.