Pankaj Agarwal: The Indian entrepreneur changing edtech for rural India
(August 10, 2021; 6.30 pm) That learning will increasingly go digital is a given. Especially, in light of the pandemic that has brought the world to its knees and shut schools and colleges across the globe. 2020, touted to be the year of edtech startups, saw several...
Vanity Fair’s Radhika Jones: The Indian-American is smashing racist stereotypes with inclusivity and representation
(August 3, 2021; 9.30 am) It was in December 2017 that Radhika Jones took off the dusty sheets of the age-old formula that had high-octane gloss, glamor, nostalgia, and polarization at the very center of Vanity Fair. Stepping in as the editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair...
Meet Jonathan Iralu, the Naga-origin doctor who has a day dedicated to him in New Mexico
(July 29, 2021; 5.45 pm) Back in March 2020, even before the first case of COVID-19 was recorded in US’ New Mexico state, an Indian-origin infectious disease specialist was hard at work setting up a drive-in testing facility outside the Gallup city hospital. His...