by Amrita Priya | Dec 6, 2025
(December 6, 2025) Sameer Maheshwari’s story rises from the lanes of Jaipur’s middle-class neighbourhoods, where houses were filled with careful budgets, exam timetables and the hum of ambition. After graduating from IIT Delhi, he stepped into the world carrying the...
by Amrita Priya | Jun 6, 2024
(June 6, 2024) Having been the victim of his many pranks, Professor Shrinivas R. Kulkarni’s wife did not believe him at first when he told her that he had won the 2024 Shaw Prize in Astronomy. Instituted by the late Hong Kong philanthropist Run Run Shaw, the prize...
by Amrita Priya | Apr 26, 2023
(April 26, 2023) “One day, women of Indian villages will be known for their potential, not their pain, for their aspirations, not their needs, for being leaders, not being led. We will make it happen, one Sapna Center at a time.” This is social entrepreneur Surabhi...
by Amrita Priya | Apr 16, 2023
(April 16, 2023) Having lived in six countries – India, Bahrain, Germany, Australia, United States and now Singapore, Pridhee Kapoor Gupta knows how English becomes a predominant language of communication in expat homes. In India too, the medium of conversation is...
by Darshana Ramdev | Nov 25, 2022
(November 25, 2022) In 2018, Dr. Keshav Singh, a professor of genetics at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, was experimenting with mitochondria in mice. The team introduced a mutation to induce dysfunction and, over the next few weeks, observed that the mice...
