by Charu Thakur | May 8, 2025
(May 8, 2025) Late one night in 2021, Tejpaul Bhatia sat in New York scrolling through an email that would change his life. A fledgling space startup called Axiom Space was inviting him to help build the world’s first commercial space station – essentially asking him...
by Bindu Gopal Rao | May 7, 2025
(May 7, 2025) Imagine telling a powerful story in just two minutes — and doing it over and over for some of Hollywood’s biggest films. That’s Gaurang Bhat’s gift. From Mumbai to Los Angeles, he’s become the go-to trailer maker for Killers of the...
by Charu Thakur | May 5, 2025
(May 5, 2025) As a child in Kuala Lumpur, Shamila Gopalan spent evenings tucked under her desk lamp, filling the margins of her schoolbooks with sketches of distant cities. Those innocent daydreams took on sharper edges when her mother sank into a deep depression and...
by Charu Thakur | May 3, 2025
(May 3, 2025) One spring afternoon in 2018, Raghni Naidu and her family stopped at a small inn in Provence. While her children wandered among the rows of vines and olive trees, she sat at a shaded table, watching them laugh and play. “I just had this epiphany,” Raghni...
by Charu Thakur | May 1, 2025
(May 1, 2025) In 2017, Bela Bajaria sat transfixed by a documentary about arranged marriages in India, A Suitable Girl. As the end credits rolled, she sensed an opportunity. Drawing on memories of her own parents introducing her to potential partners, Bajaria picked...
