by Charu Thakur | May 22, 2025
(May 22, 2025) Under the bright lights of London’s O2 Arena, a calm teenage girl leans forward at the judges’ table with a warm smile. Souparnika Nair is now a judge at Young Voices, the world’s largest children’s choir concert. In front of her stands a nervous child,...
by Amrita Priya | Aug 1, 2024
President Joe Biden invited Penn Masala, the premier South Asian a cappella boy group to perform at the White House when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the United States last year. Mathematics student Raghunandan Raman, who serves as the current president of the...
by Namrata Srivastava | Jul 10, 2022
(July 10, 2022) Many of the Indian classical dance forms have a legacy of over five thousand years. Their emotive power and graceful moves have always managed to mesmerise the audience, not just in India but also abroad. Unfortunately, in the past, these dance forms,...
by Amrita Priya | Mar 5, 2022
(March 5, 2022) A tabla gifted to his father by a friend caught Truptraj Pandya’s eye even before he had learned to walk. The instrument lay unused in a corner of the house. By the time he was 15 months old, he was already playing it, showing, even then, a...
by Vikram Sharma | Jan 7, 2022
(January 7, 2022) As a five-year-old, N Semmozhi would be immersed in sketching and painting for hours. Random drawings but immensely creative. An image in her head would be put to paper. Some made sense, others did not. Now 16, Semmozhi is one of those creative bees...
