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How Harvard student Swati Goel went from Silicon Valley to Survivor Island

by Darshana Ramdev | Dec 10, 2023

(December 10, 2023) On the tropical beaches of Mamanuca Islands in Fiji, 19-year-old Swati Goel was handed a bunch of rudimentary supplies and told to fend for herself. “There are coconuts, here’s a machete, go kill things and eat,” Goel recalled...

Young Global Indians leading social change through innovation

by Darshana Ramdev | Dec 29, 2022

(December 29, 2022) “The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible – and achieve it, generation after generation,” remarked the American writer and novelist, Pearl S. Buck. Her words continue to ring true...