by Minal Nirmala Khona | Dec 16, 2024
(December 16, 2022) Pallavi Aiyar was an English teacher in Beijing, when the SARS broke out in 2002. She travelled with 39 other journalists from Beijing to Lhasa, making the 4000-km long, historical journey by train on the world’s highest highland railway. The...
by Amrita Priya | Dec 8, 2024
(December 8, 2024) What happens when a childhood tale from Karnataka finds its way to Hollywood’s biggest stage? For filmmaker Chidananda S Naik, it turns into an Oscar selection. His short film, Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know, has not only created a...
by Amrita Priya | Dec 4, 2024
(December 4, 2024) Born in Rio de Janeiro to parents of Italian and indigenous Brazilian descent, Jonas Masetti grew up with a rich multicultural heritage. His family’s modest roots in São Paulo and the Minas Gerais region instilled in him a deep connection to...
by Vikram Sharma | Nov 29, 2024
(November 29, 2024) Back in 1985, when Priya Arora got into Oxford University to earn a degree in English literature, she never imagined that decades later, the critical thinking skills she developed during the three-year course — would come handy for a better...
