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Modern School, Barakhamba Road · Class of 2027

Sairaah
Luther

I am a school student in New Delhi, and most of my time goes to two things: how people get access to what they are owed, and how they express who they are.

The first has taken me into policy research and geospatial analysis. I wrote a paper on why Aadhaar excludes the migrant families it was meant to serve, then built an accessibility index in QGIS to find where in Delhi that actually happens. In winter 2025–26 I worked at a constituency office in Uttar Pradesh on why crop insurance does not reach the farmers who pay for it.

The second keeps me on stage. I have trained in Indian classical dance since 2023, and my first published paper was on how contemporary dancers express gender identity through performance.

Between the two sits the work I care about most. As Youth Founder of the May Care Foundation I run Aadhaar enrolment camps in Delhi government schools, because the gap between a research finding and a child who can finally open a bank account is about six hours in a school hall with the right paperwork.

I also argue at Model UN conferences and host quizzes at school. In summer 2026 I spent sixteen days in Ladakh — eight of them helping build a classroom at Lamdon School in Sumoor, and the rest trekking to around 17,000 feet.

Student researcher Youth Founder, May Care Foundation Classical dancer

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Oct 2026

Sairaah Luthersairaahluther@gmail.com · sairaahluther.in · Modern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi

Résumé

The one-page version. Everything here appears in fuller form further down the page, and the record shows which documents are linked and which are available on request.

Education

2013 – present

Modern School, Barakhamba Road — New Delhi Class 10 AISSE 92.2% · Class 11 finals 89% (English, Mathematics, Economics, Political Science, Psychology, Computer Science)

Jul 2026

AP Scholar Award — College BoardThree or more AP examinations at 3 or higher

Research and publications

Mar 2025

Gender representation in Indian classical and folk dance — sole author EPH International Journal of Humanities and Social Science · DOI 10.53555/eijhss.v10i1.235

Jun / Jul 2025

Aadhaar access barriers among urban migrant populations — sole author Sardar Bhagwan Singh Research Project · Certificate of Merit

Experience

Jun–Jul 2025
2026

Intern — Lepton Software Built a GIS-based Aadhaar Accessibility Index for Delhi’s informal settlements in QGIS: slum-cluster and enrolment-centre mapping, buffer analysis, a spatial decision-support model, and an interactive dashboard.

Dec 2025
– Jan 2026

Civic Impact Intern — Office of the MLA, Sikandra Rao, Hathras, Uttar Pradesh Governance, Policies and Law. Primary research on PM Fasal Bima Yojana delivery failures; proposed a Nodal Farmer and grievance support model, delivered as a policy roadmap.

Service and leadership

May 2026
– present

Youth Founder & Student Ambassador — May Care Foundation 6+ Aadhaar enrolment camps, ~300 students, three New Delhi government schools. Tutoring in slum settlements.

Jun–Jul 2026

Ladakh Service Expedition — 1 of 6 selected school-wide Eight days building a classroom at Lamdon Model School, Sumoor. Trekked Charmangla Pass and Ulefu at ~17,000 ft.

Nov 2024
– Aug 2026

CSR volunteer — Sonalika Tractors, with Vipla Foundation Weekly early-years workshops for 25–30 children aged four to seven: dance, storytelling, craft and music.

Selected awards

May 2026

Gold Honour — Asia International Mathematical OlympiadTop 10% internationally

Apr 2026

Silver Award — World Mathematics Invitational

2025–26

Best Delegate — Sanskriti MUN 2026 and Kaizen MUN 2025Special Mention at Sanskriti MUN 2025 and Genesis MUN 2024

2025

1st Position, Classical Dance — “Mohadeyam”, Modern School ENCROutstanding Performance Award, All India IPSC Dance Fest · 1st Position, Theatre, Modern School Faridabad

Skills

QGISBuffer & spatial analysisPrimary field research Policy writingAcademic writingPublic speaking Indian classical dance

The question One line of
enquiry, four
ways in

Why does a document built to include people end up excluding the ones who need it most? Everything below comes back to that question — the paper that asked it, the map that located it, and the camps that answer it one student at a time.

300+Government school students reached through Aadhaar camps

6+Enrolment camps run across three Delhi schools

2Papers authored — one internationally published

16Days in Ladakh building a classroom at Lamdon School

Research 2 papers
1 GIS index

The question, mapped

Three pieces of work that are really one line of enquiry: the paper asked why access fails, the geospatial index found exactly where it fails in Delhi, and the camps are what happens when you take the map seriously.

Sardar Bhagwan Singh Research Project Jun / Jul 2025 Certificate of Merit

Access barriers and community-level vulnerabilities in Aadhaar enrolment among urban migrant populations

Aadhaar was built to be the key that opens the welfare state. This paper examines the paradox at its centre: for migrant families and their children — the households with the weakest documentary footprint to begin with — the same card becomes an instrument of exclusion, compounding the barriers they already carry.

Mapped the documentary prerequisites a migrant household cannot satisfy, and traced how each failure cascades into lost schooling, rations and banking.
Examined amendment services specifically — the point at which a change of address quietly severs a family from every benefit tied to the old one.

Policy researchPrimary fieldwork

Certificate of Merit →

EPH — Int. Journal of Humanities and Social Science March 2025 Published

Gender representation in Indian classical and folk dance, and how contemporary dancers negotiate identity through performance

Indian classical dance carries centuries of encoded assumptions about who may embody what. This paper assesses how those representations have shifted over time, and how performers working today negotiate and express identity inside forms that were never designed to be negotiated with.

Traced the evolution of gendered roles across classical and folk traditions rather than treating either as static inheritance.
Centred the contemporary performer as an active interpreter of the form, not a vessel for it.

Peer-reviewedSole author

DOI 10.53555/eijhss.v10i1.235 →

Lepton Software Jun–Jul 2025 & 2026 Internship

A GIS-based Aadhaar Accessibility Index for Delhi's informal settlements

The paper argued that access barriers are spatial as much as bureaucratic. This work tested that claim against data — turning an argument into a map a policymaker can act on.

Mapped slum clusters and Aadhaar enrolment centres across Delhi in QGIS, then applied buffer analysis to isolate settlements outside any realistic service radius.
Built an accessibility index integrating geospatial, demographic and infrastructure datasets into a single comparable score.
Designed a spatial decision-support model flagging high-risk communities by distance to the nearest centre, migrant density and service coverage.
Produced an interactive dashboard so underserved areas — and the case for a camp in each — read at a glance.

QGISBuffer analysisDecision support

Internship certificate →

Field work 4 commitments
2024–2026

Where the research goes

Four commitments running in parallel with school. Each one puts me in front of people whose problems do not appear in a syllabus.

May Care Foundation May 2026 – present Youth Founder & Student Ambassador

Aadhaar enrolment camps in government schools

The foundation works on empowering women, protecting children and restoring dignity to elders. My part is narrow and specific: making sure a missing Aadhaar card never costs a government school student a scholarship, a bank account, or a benefit they are already entitled to.

Organised 6+ enrolment camps attended by roughly 300 students, built around inclusion rather than throughput.
Partnered with three government schools in New Delhi's South East district, so enrolment happens where the students already are.
Ran tutoring sessions for children living in slum settlements.

maycarefoundation.org →

Office of the MLA, Sikandra Rao Dec 2025 – Jan 2026 Civic Impact Internship

Making crop insurance actually reach the farmer

Selected for a Civic Impact Internship in Governance, Policies and Law under Mr Birendra Singh Rana, MLA for Sikandra Rao in Hathras district, Uttar Pradesh.

The PM Fasal Bima Yojana is close to free for the farmer — a 2% premium on Kharif crops, 1.5% on Rabi, with governments carrying the rest. The design is sound; the delivery is not. Compensation arrives late, arrives short, or does not arrive.
Conducted primary research across the constituency, reading failure patterns rather than scheme documents.
Proposed a Nodal Farmer model with a grievance support system, so a claim in the smallest village has a named person accountable for it and a route to escalate.

PMFBYRural developmentPolicy roadmap

Sonalika Tractors — CSR, with Vipla Foundation Nov 2024 – Aug 2026 Volunteer

Early-years workshops for 25–30 children aged four to seven

Weekly sessions designed and led alongside the Vipla Foundation team, holding responsibility for group safety and inclusion throughout.

Structured sessions in dance, storytelling for early literacy, clay modelling, finger and hand painting, and music — introducing the jamboree, harmonica, piano and guitar.
Planned and ran a cultural visit to a Gurudwara on Guru Nanak Jayanti in November 2024.
Edited news articles and chronicles for the company.

Letter of recommendation →

Lamdon Model School, Sumoor — Nubra Valley 26 Jun – 11 Jul 2026 1 of 6 selected school-wide

Sixteen days, one classroom, 17,000 feet

A service expedition combining construction work, high-altitude trekking, and a fairly direct education in improvisation.

Eight days building a classroom at Lamdon Model School in Sumoor — educational infrastructure for a community that is genuinely remote, not rhetorically so.
Trekked to Charmangla Pass and Ulefu at roughly 17,000 ft, and visited Siachen Base Camp.
Worked around a landslide, a blocked road, and a broken bridge that had to be replaced by crossing a stream on foot.

Certificate & plaque →

On the Ladakh service expedition in the Nubra Valley — Ladakh · Nubra Valley

High-altitude trek during the Ladakh service expedition — Ladakh · the trek

Sairaah Luther performing Indian classical dance — Classical dance

On photographs. Images from the Aadhaar camps and the early-years workshops are held back from this page. They show identifiable children, and they stay unpublished until the schools and the Vipla Foundation give written clearance.

Record 22 entries
2023–2026

Everything, documented

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Date↓	Achievement↓	Category↓	Document
Jul 2026	AP Scholar AwardCollege Board — Scores of 3 or higher on three or more AP examinations	Awards	View →
Jul 2026	Co-Director, UNGA — Intra MODMUN 2026Modern School — Upper Secretariat	MUN	On request
Jun 2026	Certificate and plaque — Ladakh Service ExpeditionLamdon Model School, Sumoor — One of six students selected school-wide	Service	View →
May 2026	Gold Honour — Asia International Mathematical OlympiadAIMO — Top 10% of participants internationally	Awards	View →
May 2026	Youth Founder and Student AmbassadorMay Care Foundation — Aadhaar enrolment camps across three Delhi government schools	Service	On request
Apr 2026	Best Delegate — Sanskriti MUN 2026Sanskriti School — DISEC, UNGA · certificate and gavel	MUN	View →
Apr 2026	Silver Award — World Mathematics InvitationalWMI — International problem-solving competition	Awards	On request
Mar 2026	Card of Appreciation from the PrincipalModern School — Co-hosting the Inter-House Quiz 2026 — question setting, training juniors, qualifiers and final	Awards	View →
Dec 2025	Civic Impact Internship — PMFBY policy roadmapOffice of the MLA, Sikandra Rao — Governance, Policies and Law · Hathras, Uttar Pradesh	Work	On request
Nov 2025	Best Delegate — Kaizen MUN 2025APJ School, Pitampura — UNODC · certificate, trophies and a cash prize	MUN	View →
Aug 2025	Outstanding Performance Award — All India IPSC Dance FestRKK Girls' Public School, Jodhpur — Western dance	Arts	On request
Jul 2025	GIS-based Aadhaar Accessibility IndexLepton Software — QGIS mapping, buffer analysis and an interactive dashboard for Delhi	Work	View →
Jun / Jul 2025	Certificate of Merit — Aadhaar access researchSardar Bhagwan Singh Research Project — Authored paper on access barriers among urban migrant populations	Research	View →
May 2025	1st Position, Classical Dance — “Mohadeyam”Modern School, ENCR — Certificate and trophies	Arts	On request
May 2025	1st Position, Theatre — “Walk In My Shoes”Modern School, Faridabad — A play raising awareness of autism	Arts	On request
Apr 2025	Special Mention — Sanskriti MUN 2025Sanskriti School — DISEC, UNGA	MUN	View →
Mar 2025	Published — gender in Indian classical and folk danceEPH Int. Journal of Humanities and Social Science — Sole author · DOI 10.53555/eijhss.v10i1.235	Research	View →
Nov 2024	CSR volunteer — early-years workshopsSonalika Tractors, with Vipla Foundation — 25–30 children aged four to seven · letter of recommendation	Service	View →
May 2024	Special Mention — Genesis MUN 2024Genesis School — Certificate and medal	MUN	On request
2024	Prarambhik TwoPracheen Kala Kendra — First Division	Arts	On request
2024	8th of 200 teams — Columban Open QuizOpen national field — Phoenix Quiz Club	Awards	On request
2023	Prarambhik OnePracheen Kala Kendra — First Division with Distinction in theory and practical	Arts	On request
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Academic standing. Modern School, Barakhamba Road since 2013. Class 10 AISSE: 92.2% across English, Mathematics, Science, Social Science and Hindi. Class 11 finals: 89% across English, Mathematics, Economics, Political Science, Psychology and Computer Science.

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Get in touch

Email is the fastest way to reach me. I answer anything to do with research collaboration, Aadhaar access work, or running a camp at a school that needs one.

sairaahluther@gmail.com

May Care Foundation

For anything to do with the enrolment camps, the foundation's own site is the right starting point.