by Deepa Natarajan Lobo | Sep 20, 2026
(Sep 20, 2026)While growing up in India, medicine and engineering were among the traditional career choices for Avantika Velho. With her mother a doctor at Goa Medical College and her father taking the entrepreneurial route, Avantika too once imagined a career in one...
by Amrita Priya | Aug 29, 2026
(Aug 29, 2026) For Shashank Madala, an Indian-American student from Robbinsville, New Jersey the idea for Kora began with a personal experience. His younger cousin, who lives in India, is autistic, and growing up, Shashank saw how difficult it could be for those...
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 | Feb 9, 2026
(February 9, 2026) The new year arrived for high school student Krishiv Thakuria with another feather in his cap. The teenager taught generative artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Working with Professor Manolis Kellis at MIT’s...
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...
