by Charu Thakur | May 20, 2022
(May 20, 2022) Sitting at a height of 9,383 ft above sea level, Najira Noushad found her Sherpa hastily telling her that she cannot make it to the Everest base camp (17,598 ft) in five days. As a mother of five who had never stepped into a gym, the Sherpa reckoned the...
by Amrita Priya | May 20, 2022
(May 20, 2022) The coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing lockdown brought the world and the economy to its knees. Not for long though: various tech solutions soon sprung up to bridge the gap that had begun to make its presence the world over. If there were apps and web...
by Namrata Srivastava | May 19, 2022
(May 19, 2022) Five decades ago, a Brahmin widow, Anasuya, gave birth to a boy at the CSI Basel Mission Hospital in Udupi, Karnataka. Unable to keep the child, she gave him up to Dr Marianne Pflugfelder, and trusted the missionary hospital to find the best place for...
by Amrita Priya | May 19, 2022
(May 19, 2022) Having completed her senior secondary school at the mere age of 13 Janhavi went on to become a 16-year-old graduate after finishing her undergraduate studies at Delhi University. The prodigy from Samalkha, a town 19 km south of Panipat is popularly...
by sanjana | May 18, 2022
This article first appeared in Scroll.in on May 14, 2022 The early 19th century marked a transformative period in Southeast Asia, with the British establishing trading posts that evolved into thriving colonies. Amid this economic shift, an Indian community from Tamil...
