by Amrita Priya | Dec 20, 2025
(December 20, 2025) When Ashish Kumar Verma joined Microsoft this November as a software engineer at its Hyderabad IDC, the 19-year-old entered the company as one of the youngest to be hired this year. His professional path would have blended naturally into the steady...
by Vikram Sharma | Dec 19, 2025
(December 19, 2025) Sanskrit, the ancient classical Indo-Aryan language, is now finding its way back into classrooms in Pakistan. In a historic move, the first since Partition, the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) has launched a four-credit course in...
by Amrita Priya | Dec 18, 2025
(December 18, 2025) Deblina Sarkar’s journey traces the extraordinary arc of upringing in rural West Bengal to engineering classrooms in IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, and eventually to the frontiers of brain science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Trained as an...
by Bindu Gopal Rao | Dec 17, 2025
(December 17, 2025) On a chilly December morning at Taj Rishikesh Resort and Spa, the lobby is abuzz with the chant of ‘Om’ reverberating through the space. 75 people from Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, the UAE, the UK, the USA, Vietnam, Mauritius,...
by Vikram Sharma | Dec 16, 2025
(December 16, 2025) Award-winning novelist, screenwriter and former international journalist Reenita Malhotra Hora has spent much of her career telling stories of identity, inheritance and transformation. Now, with The Ace of Blades: The Life Story of the Blade King...