by Amrita Priya | Mar 25, 2022
(March 25, 2022) When Geetanjali Shree was a young girl her mother would often joke about how she wanted to tell stories more than she wanted to hear them. Today an established Hindi author, her last book Ret Samadhi was recently longlisted for the Man Booker...
by Amrita Priya | Mar 22, 2022
(March 22, 2022) Each year, lakhs of aspirants appear for one of India’s toughest exams: the civil services exam. The competition is cut-throat, to say the least. In 2021, over 9,70,000 aspirants applied for the UPSC exam but only 761 cleared it. Many candidates...
by Amrita Priya | Mar 21, 2022
(March 21, 2022) Mount Tamalpais is a popular haunt for photographers on the US West Coast, especially those who, like Tanmay Sapkal, live in the San Francisco Bay Area. The 29-year-old landscape photographer, who works as a techie at Apple by day, spends evenings...
by Amrita Priya | Mar 6, 2022
(March 6, 2022) Waiting for a train at Bokaro station to Pune two decades ago, a little boy approached a young Ashish Kalawar, offering to polish his shoes. Unhappy, Ashish reprimanded the boy saying he should be studying at his age. The boy replied that he was...
by Ranjani Rajendra | Nov 30, 2021
(November 30, 2021) If the Future of Jobs Report by the World Economic Forum is right, 65 percent of students entering primary school will ultimately work jobs that haven’t even been invented yet. Then how does one prepare children for the future? It involves a...
