Aryan Srivastav's Journey
Losing Home, Twice October 2025 marked the point where Aryan's life changed irreversibly. Escalating conflict at home led his mother to decide, without warning, that they had to leave immediately. They packed two bags in the middle of the night and moved into a tiny rented room — roughly ten feet by twelve feet, with a single mattress on the floor, one light bulb, unreliable electricity, and inconsistent running water. It was from this room that Aryan effectively stopped attending school. There was no formal announcement; survival simply became the priority over education. Weeks later, his father located them and persuaded them to return home, promising things would be different. They went back — and within hours realized nothing had changed. When his father briefly left the house, Aryan and his mother packed again in a matter of minutes and fled a second time, this time to the home of family friends before eventually returning to the small rented room, which had, by necessity, bec...