by Amrita Priya | Jun 16, 2022
(June 16, 2022) When she travelled to the Arctic in 2013, Canadian student and researcher Maya Burhanpurkar was, understandably, blown away by the incredible beauty of the glacial landscapes that surrounded her. There was, however, a sense of foreboding – the...
by Amrita Priya | Jun 10, 2022
(June 10, 2022) As a 15-year-old visiting India from Saudi Arabia, Zain Samdani had no idea that this family vacation was set to change the course of his life. A meeting with his partially paralysed distant maternal uncle left him “shocked.” In the era of...
by Amrita Priya | May 28, 2022
(May 28, 2022) One of the world’s most prestigious academic programmes, The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students, giving them a chance to study at the University of Oxford. Established in 1903, it is the oldest postgraduate...
by Amrita Priya | May 27, 2022
(May 27, 2022) Many girls and women are held back by biases, social norms and expectations influencing the quality of the education they receive, leading to an under-representation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, and consequently...
by Amrita Priya | May 25, 2022
(May 25, 2022) Sustainability in space exploration is one of modern man’s biggest dilemmas, drawing bright young minds all in pursuit of a solution. Among them is eleventh-grader Anushka Sharad. A NASA citizen scientist who has helped search for asteroids, the...
