by Amrita Priya | May 30, 2026
(May 30, 2026) Fourteen-year-old Shrey Parikh of Rancho Cucamonga, California, had just won the 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee, becoming the latest Indian-American contestant to claim the prestigious title in a competition long marked by the community’s remarkable...
by Amrita Priya | May 22, 2026
(May 22, 2026) Sixteen-year-olds Avyana Mehta, Vivaan Chhawchharia and Ariana Agarwal have been named Asia Winners of The Earth Prize 2026 for developing Plas-Stick, a solution that uses powder of waste tamarind seeds to bind microplastics into visible clumps that can...
by Amrita Priya | May 17, 2026
(May 17, 2026) Karan Brar is the Punjabi-American actor who grew up watching his face become familiar to millions of children across the world. Best known as Ravi Ross on Disney Channel’s hit series Jessie and its spin-off Bunk’d, he was, for much of his...
by Amrita Priya | May 9, 2026
(May 9, 2026) About two years ago, Shaan Guru was sitting inside a Panera Bread outlet in Orlando, the popular American bakery-cafe chain known for sandwiches, soups, and fresh bread, when he noticed trays of perfectly usable food being discarded at the end of the...
by Vikram Sharma | May 2, 2026
(May 2, 2026) Shreyovi Mehta feels at home in the jungles of India. Living in the wilderness brings out the best in her — and at just 10, she achieved a global milestone in 2024, becoming the runner-up at the prestigious 60th Wildlife Photographer of the Year (WPY)...
