by Kanchan Naik | Oct 24, 2019 | Politics, Youth
The 2020 presidential election is not a race. It is a battlefield. Scattered across its rugged landscape is an onslaught of tweets and hashtags, opinions hurled from every edge of the American demography. From our broken healthcare system to our toxic immigration...
by Kanchan Naik | Oct 21, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Youth
My mother’s eyes sparkled as I knelt beside her. Her white chalk scraped against the entrance to our house, adding wispy flowers between rows of hollow diamonds and peacock feathers on the outer edges of her design. There was something trained about the way that she...
by Siya Thakur | Aug 26, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Voices, Youth
Refugees or “disadvantaged people” weren’t new terms for me. Growing up in India, I was exposed to families in such vulnerable states. Throughout my childhood, I was well aware of people who were not living in the best circumstances. There were multiple...
by Kanchan Naik | Aug 17, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Reflections, Youth
Night One: All test centers open at 7:45 a.m. and doors close at 8 a.m., unless otherwise noted on your admission ticket. You cannot be admitted once testing has started. The metal doors of the auditorium opened like the jaws of a beast, its four-walled stomach...
by Sumedha Vemulakonda | Jul 15, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Perspectives, Youth
Evergreen Valley High School. Tucked away in the middle of a quiet neighborhood in East San Jose, the blue and brown walls of the school burgeon with hopes, dreams and perhaps most dangerous — expectations. The predominantly Asian-American school is ranked 79...
by Simirthaa Karunakaran | Jun 25, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Youth
Flowers adorned the Foothill Presbyterian Church’s Fellowship Hall as the sun began to set. Girls and boys of all ages and abilities were dressed in their finest, the sound of their laughter uniting everyone. Graced with flower crowns and boutineers, these kids were...
