by Amrita Priya | Jan 14, 2023
(January 14, 2023) Growing up, student entrepreneur Simone Sharma dreamed of being a doctor. Life, however, had other plans. Along the way, she discovered that volunteer work could boost her CV and increase the odds of getting scholarships to good colleges. Although...
by Amrita Priya | Jan 10, 2023
(January 10, 2023) Indian-origin youngsters have set a benchmark in global Spelling Bees and have, over the last few years, begun to make their mark in environmental activism too, surging past their peers from around the globe to bag the International Children’s...
by Amrita Priya | Jan 5, 2023
(January 5, 2023) Meghana Gaddam stood before the New Zealand parliament, greeting the speaker with a ‘Namaskaram’ before turning to the minister of health to ask, “How do health system reforms address the existing nationwide resource constraint in the...
by Amrita Priya | Dec 27, 2022
(December 27, 2022) “Every time I think about it, it feels unbelievable,” says Nandita Saxena, the young confectioner who bagged the silver in the patisserie and confectionery category at the WorldSkills Competition 2022. The youngster, who first learned about the...
by Amrita Priya | Dec 21, 2022
(December 21, 2022) It was a dream come true for 23-year-old Anushree Srinivasan when she visited her dream destination Switzerland in October to represent India in the WorldSkills competition. It was the avid traveler’s first trip abroad and that too for something as...