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...
by Charu Thakur | Apr 26, 2025
(April 26, 2025) It started around a kitchen table in early 2019, when a handful of renters fed up with slumlords and looming evictions came together to share their stories. Under Tara Raghuveer’s leadership, that small, multiracial gathering transformed into KC...
by Charu Thakur | Apr 22, 2025
(April 22, 2025) Back in the spring of 2004, Dr. Reshma Kewalramani was hunched over lab results on the transplant ward at Massachusetts General Hospital when her pager buzzed with an unfamiliar extension. A biotech executive was on the line, offering her a role at...
by Mallik Thatipalli | Apr 13, 2025
(April 13, 2025) Wearing a monkey cap and a handmade sweater from her mother, entrepreneur Shally Palivela remembers feeling far away from everything familiar on her maiden flight to the US in 2004 to pursue a course in Syracuse University. When the flight attendant...
by Bindu Gopal Rao | Mar 30, 2025
(March 30, 2025) Imagine a young man who, while working with industry giants like Amazon and Microsoft and even inventing gadgets that truly change lives for the differently abled, was always driven by one simple idea: technology can make life better. After spending...
