In 2015, following a survey by the World Health Organization (WHO), Delhi had earned the notorious moniker of being the ‘world’s most polluted city’. At the time, Kushagra Srivastava was a second-year engineering student in IIT-Delhi. His faculty members were part of various expert committees and panels working with the government to tackle the air pollution issue, and on campus, there were regular discussions about how students could use their technological prowess towards this issue.