by Amrita Priya | Mar 12, 2023
We cannot always build the future for our youth but we can build our youth for the future. – Franklin Roosevelt (March 12, 2023) In 2017, during the December 31 episode of his radio programme, Mann Ki Baat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his desire to...
by Amrita Priya | Mar 8, 2023
(March 8, 2023) In her address at the Rashtriya Bal Puraskar 2023 felicitation ceremony Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi, president Droupadi Murmu showered praises on this year’s eleven recipients. The Rashtriya Bal Puraskar, also known as the National Child Awards, is...
by Amrita Priya | Mar 3, 2023
(March 3, 2023) Whether it’s India’s former defence secretary, Ajay Kumar, Professor Gerardo Ceballos, Mexico’s ‘guardian of the jaguar’, oceanographer Hannah Whitby, entrepreneur Bhargav Sri Prakash who is known for the Digital Vaccine Project or Kargil war...
by Amrita Priya | Feb 17, 2023
(February 17, 2023) Sejal Akerkar had attended poetry camps in middle school and continued to write but hadn’t really thought about doing it as a profession. That changed when she found inspiration in the Canadian-Indian poet, artist and performer, Rupi Kaur. Rupi’s...
by Amrita Priya | Feb 12, 2023
(February 12, 2023) Had Delhi boy Vedant travelled to Dubai last month to receive his award as the top 100 child prodigies of 2022, it would have been his maiden foreign trip, accomplished on his own mettle. However, the class 10 student chose to stay back to take his...