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Chooses serious but approachable texts.
The reading should stretch students without becoming a performance.
Mentors who enjoy helping students think.
Tangent mentors are researchers, professionals, and deep readers.
What makes a Tangent mentor different?
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Helps confusion become productive.
Confusion is treated as a place to begin, not something to hide.
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Asks better questions.
Mentors avoid quick answers when a sharper question would do more.
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Models intellectual honesty.
Students see what careful thinking sounds like in real time.
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Treats mentorship as public-spirited work.
Tangent is not primarily a money-making project. Cohorts are priced to remain affordable for a broad section of families while still respecting mentor time, with the deeper aim of helping students move toward research-level reading, questioning, and thinking.
Current mentors
Co-founder
Dr. Sushrut Thorat
Neuroscience x AI
Supervised students across undergraduate, Master's, and PhD levels, and has led reading groups in university and informal settings.
B.Tech IIT Bombay · MSc University of Trento · PhD Radboud University.
Co-founder
Amogh Deshpande
Physicist
Taught high school Physics, Calculus, and Mathematics, along with undergraduate Physics.
B.Sc. Azim Premji University · M.Sc. Physics (ongoing), IMAPP.
Harshali Paralikar
Product Designer-Researcher
Has taught product thinking to medical practitioners, coached emerging founders one-to-one since 2022, and led product-discovery and business-modelling workshops for startup teams.
B.Des. NID Ahmedabad.
For prospective mentors
Interested in mentoring with Tangent?
Researchers, teachers, and domain experts who care about serious small-group mentoring are welcome to write in.
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