by Amrita Priya | Oct 15, 2023
(October 15, 2023) In 1946, a young girl named Nancie Joyce Margaret Jones embarked on her very first journey from England to India to reunite with her lover, Yudister Kumar. Yudister, who had completed his studies in the UK, had returned to India but was battling...
by Amrita Priya | Mar 1, 2023
(March 1, 2023) On Republic Day 2023, the Ministry of Home Affairs announced the names of the recipients of the highest civilian awards of India – the Padma Awards. The list included Sujatha Ramdorai, the Indian-origin mathematician who is a professor of mathematics...
by Amrita Priya | Sep 25, 2022
(September 25, 2022) When Nileema was thirteen, she made up her mind to never marry so that she can devote her entire life helping the poor. At that time, her school teacher father, and homemaker mother thought that it was just a kid’s dreamy plan. But little did...
by Namrata Srivastava | Aug 7, 2022
(August 7, 2022) Although he would have to walk four miles every day to reach his school, Dr Mani Lal Bhaumik hardly ever missed a class. Today, an eminent scientist, Dr Bhaumik recently pledged $11.4 million towards the American Association for the Advancement of...
by Charu Thakur | Aug 3, 2022
(August 3, 2022) The road winding through the lush landscape of orchards leads us to the main chowk of Malihabad, the centuries-old home of mangoes. My phone rings and a soft-spoken man on the other end gently enquires, “Where have you reached?” I tell him...
