{"id":3036,"date":"2025-05-05T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T13:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escp.eu\/blog-bachelor\/?p=3036"},"modified":"2026-03-02T10:38:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:38:03","slug":"hanshika-kohli-on-resilience-reinvention-and-the-journey-from-kashmir-to-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/escp.eu\/blog-bachelor\/hanshika-kohli-on-resilience-reinvention-and-the-journey-from-kashmir-to-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanshika Kohli: On Resilience, Reinvention, and the Journey from Kashmir to Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In April, Hanshika Kohli<\/strong> graduated from ESCP’s Bachelor in Management (BSc)<\/strong> after three years of study across Europe. Her diploma is just one chapter in a much longer story, one that began in a place where education is often interrupted before it can take root. What follows is not just a celebration of success, but a reflection on what it means to keep moving when stability can’t be taken for granted \u201d and how one student quietly reshaped the spaces around her by staying true to her voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kashmir: A Different Kind of Classroom<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the lush valleys of Srinagar, Kashmir<\/strong>, a place known both for its breathtaking beauty and its long history of political complexity, Hanshika <\/strong>learned early what it means to adapt<\/strong>, persist<\/strong>, and push forward<\/strong> against the odds. \u201dWe’d often wake up to find everything suddenly shut down, sometimes for days, sometimes for months\u201d<\/em> she recalls. Internet blackouts, political curfews, and even natural disasters weren’t rare interruptions in her education. They were constants<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When she was 13, a devastating flood submerged her home and city under nearly 18 feet of water. Then, in 2019, just before her final year of high school, a major constitutional change in Kashmir triggered another wave of unrest. What followed was a complete communication blackout<\/strong> lasting over 500 days. There was no internet, no mobile network, no landlines, nothing. \u201dI had my ESCP admission interview during that time. I had to go to a government office, borrow Wi-Fi, and do the interview from their desktop computer\u201d<\/em> she remembers. \u201dThe video call didn’t work well, so the interviewers had to talk to me on the phone while being on Skype.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was far from ideal. And yet, that day became the turning point. She received an admission offer and a scholarship to pursue the Bachelor in Management (BSc)<\/a><\/strong> at ESCP. It was the culmination of years of perseverance, and the beginning of something entirely new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dChoosing to study abroad wasn’t just about getting a degree\u201d<\/em> she says. \u201dIt was about stepping out of the familiar and believing there was more waiting for me.\u201d<\/em> In 2020, Hanshika boarded a plane to France, the first stop on her three-year, three-country<\/em><\/strong> journey with ESCP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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