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...
by Amrita Priya | Dec 24, 2025
(December 24, 2025) When Dikshitha Madisetty walked up to receive the 2025 Teaching Excellence Award at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences, her voice shook. The 25-year-old adjunct lecturer in the Business Faculty nearly cried. The moment felt both...
