by Darshana Ramdev | Sep 14, 2024
(September 14, 2024) “Nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future,” wrote Jon Krakauer in his iconic biography, Into the Wild. Just like his protagonist, Chris McCandless, young conservationists have turned their...
by Amrita Priya | Sep 13, 2024
(September 13, 2024) When 19-year-old Josh Roy presented his AI-implemented solution for the genetic modification of whiteflies, at the 2024 TKS Focus Hackathon, it emerged as the global winner, beating over 400 competitors from 300 cities and 80 teams. His solution...
by Charu Thakur | Sep 11, 2024
(September 11, 2024) “Girls Too Poor to Buy Sanitary Products Missing School” – this headline on the BBC website in 2017 was the starting point of a revolution that was set to change the course of the education system in the UK. Behind this tectonic...
by Darshana Ramdev | Sep 10, 2024
(September 10, 2024) Social entrepreneur Akshai Sarin’s website opens into a little blitzkrieg of photos – you see him chatting casually with Paris Hilton and standing with an arm around Amitabh Bachchan. Sarin is a serial entrepreneur and a maverick, with...
by Amrita Priya | Sep 5, 2024
(September 5, 2024) Nestled in the southeastern Caribbean Sea, Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, next to North America. It’s one of the more populous and prosperous Caribbean islands. The story of Indian migration to...