India, Nov. 22 -- In a nation obsessed with ranks, cut-offs, and entrance examinations, where adolescence often feels like a relentless race toward the hallowed portals of the IITs, there occasionally emerges a young mind that dares to defy convention.

Sixteen-year-old Pranet Khetan, a Class 11 student from Shiv Nadar School, Gurugram, is one such exception, a boy who chose not to compete for marks, but to communicate for humanity.

Pranet was among four winners of Samsung Solve for Tomorrow 2025, where he developed Paraspeak, a simple device that records the user's voice, sends it to a cloud-based AI model, and plays back a translated version in clear, fluent words even in Hindi.

Samsung Solve for Tomorrow is the company's flagship edu...