by Amrita Priya | Dec 27, 2022
(December 27, 2022) In 2019, Young the Giant gave its first performance at the hallowed Forum in Los Angeles. After the show, frontman Sameer Gadhia was asked, by a good friend and mentor, Dr Varun Soni, “You do realise that you’re probably the first...
by Amrita Priya | Nov 22, 2022
(November 22, 2022) History is being created at the Massachusetts-based Tufts University, as Indian-American academician Sunil Kumar has become the first person of colour to be appointed as its next president. Indian-origin Kumar, who is provost and senior vice...
by Vikram Sharma | Oct 17, 2022
(October 17, 2022) As a student at the University of North Carolina — Chapel Hill, a young Yashovardhan Birla set out one day to explore the gymnasium. Unlike his peers, the then 23-year-old was a teetotaller and definitely didn’t enjoy heading down to the bar every...
by Amrita Priya | Oct 13, 2022
(October 13, 2022) About 15 minutes into our conversation, Dr. Ravi Margasahayam told me that he once had a chance meeting with mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, who taught him a very important lesson – something he still lives by. “It was 1973, I was in...
