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 | Apr 5, 2026
(April 5, 2026) There is a village called Dayalpur in the Faridabad district of Haryana where, for the first 14 years of his life, a boy would wake up each morning and travel by road to the nearby town of Ballabgarh for school. He grew up watching open fields,...
by Amrita Priya | Mar 2, 2026
(March 2, 2026) When Kalyan Goud Janagam looks back at his journey from Hyderabad to Sydney, Singapore, and finally the London School of Economics, and at the journeys of other Indian study-abroad aspirants, he sees a pattern. “Indian students are among the most...
by Amrita Priya | Feb 2, 2026
(February 2, 2026) On a Vande Bharat Express journey last month, somewhere between destinations and generations, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor found himself in an unexpectedly absorbing conversation. Sitting besides him was Raul John Aju, a 16-year-old AI innovator from...
by Amrita Priya | Jan 25, 2026
(January 25, 2026) In August 2024, Suvaditya Mukherjee landed in Los Angeles carrying two suitcases and a slight sense of unease. It was the first time he had travelled so far away from his parents who are based in Mumbai. For first time Mumbai felt less like a city...
