(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...
(September 21, 2025) In the spring of 2020, as classrooms everywhere shifted to screens, seventh-grader Ruby Arun discovered herself in an unusual situation: a one-student advanced math class on Zoom. The scheduling quirk paired her with a young teacher day after day,...
(June 20, 2025) One evening in Virginia, Vidya Ambati noticed her grandmother struggling to knead dough for dinner. Her hands were stiff from arthritis, and even small movements caused pain. Vidya didn’t know much about the condition then, but the moment stayed with...
(May 28, 2025) In early May, Shreya Mishra Reddy was preparing for what should have been a proud moment. The 33-year-old entrepreneur from Bengaluru had completed her coursework in Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development and was looking forward to...
(April 25, 2025) When Prisha Prakash Bhat visited her ailing grandmother in India a few years ago, she discovered a shocking culprit behind the illness: chronic arsenic poisoning from rice. In parts of India and other South Asian countries, rice can absorb arsenic...
