by Charu Thakur | Oct 18, 2024
(October 18, 2024) In 2015, Karthik Ramu’s life changed in a way that few teenagers could have anticipated. His grandfather, living thousands of miles away in Coimbatore, India, suffered a near-fatal heart attack. Karthik, at the time a high school student in...
by Darshana Ramdev | Oct 10, 2024
(October 10, 2024) As her twenty-first birthday grew closer, Pareen Mhatre began to panic. An accomplished STEM student at the University of Iowa, Pareen would call her parents, who also live in Iowa City and cry, overcome with worry about her future in the US. This...
by Charu Thakur | Oct 4, 2024
(October 4, 2024) The first wave of Covid brought the entire world to a standstill, and changed the way everything functioned till then, including education. Moving from the vast spaciousness of classrooms to 17-inch laptop screens, students had a hard time fitting...
by Darshana Ramdev | Oct 1, 2024
(October 1, 2024) “Find out what you care about and then see what questions you can ask about it.” Rhodes scholar Swathi Srinivasan is a great believer in pursuing the things one is truly passionate about – that’s why she’s able to put so...
by Amrita Priya | Sep 27, 2024
(September 27, 2024) Dhruvi Patel, a student from the USA, was named Miss India Worldwide 2024. This was the 31st edition of Miss India Worldwide, the longest-running Indian pageant held outside of India. It is considered one of the top ethnic pageants, and is...
