by Charu Thakur | Dec 15, 2022
(December 15, 2022) A rebellion put Indian American Indrani Das on the path to research brain injuries, something that led her to win a quarter-million-dollar at the Regeneron Science Talent Search award as a 17-year-old. While most Indian parents coax their children...
by Darshana Ramdev | Dec 13, 2022
(December 13, 2022) “Didi, I need to protect myself.” Pooja Nagpal was taken aback, to say the least, by the diminutive teenager who stood before her, hand in a sling. The girl, Neha, had been beaten by a family member and knew she had to learn to defend...
by Namrata Srivastava | Nov 11, 2022
(November 11, 2022) It was a usual day for the then 13-year-old Ishika Binu and her younger sister, when both of them stepped out with their caretaker to attend their daily Bharatnatyam class. While they were on their way a vehicle rammed into their car, throwing it...
by Charu Thakur | Nov 4, 2022
(November 4, 2022) The last wish from their dying grandmother, who was then battling pancreatic cancer, played a catalyst for Charlotte residents Sherya Mantha and Sahana Mantha in starting Foundation for Girls (FFG) in 2014 – a nonprofit to help underprivileged...
by Charu Thakur | Oct 26, 2022
(October 26, 2022) Failures are nothing but stepping stones to success, and Indian American Alay Shah couldn’t agree more. The 18-year-old, who made it to the top ten at the 2021 Regeneron Science Talent Search for designing an eye-tracking algorithm that can...
