by Jyoti Minocha | Jan 26, 2020 | *Slider - Latest, Youth
Recently I took my 19-year old daughter to meet my 93-year old mother in Delhi. She hadn’t been to India for 8 years and in that time she had morphed from a wild teenager to a thoughtful adult, from a giddiness over theme parks and prom dates to questions about her...
by Kanchan Naik | Jan 20, 2020 | *Slider - Latest, Young Professionals, Youth
As the last of 2019’s shadow disappears below the horizon, we begin to think of the horizons that we have created for ourselves. Thus commences another resolution season: a parade of inspirational Twitter posts, old to-do lists fished out of dustbins, and a...
by Staff Writer | Jan 6, 2020 | *Slider - Latest, Youth
Students from South Asian Student Associations of every Ivy League University (including Yale, Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, and Brown) signed an open letter condemning the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) recently passed...
by Swathi Ramprasad | Dec 15, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Articles, Young Professionals, Youth
It was 7 am on a rainy winter morning in California. My dad had forgotten to buy milk the previous night. Fearing my mother’s wrath, he rushed to the grocery store. He approached those all-to-familiar automatic doors, did his a jig to activate the sensors, but the...
by Jasmine Pannu | Dec 10, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Articles, Young Professionals, Youth
I am 15 and a sophomore at my average suburban San Francisco/Bay Area high school. However, April this year I was provided an opportunity that was more than average–to go on a climbing trip in the treacherous mountains of the Himalayas. Ruthless Himalayan...
by Anjana Nagarajan-Butaney | Dec 1, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Youth
Dhaval Panchal was in high school walking back to class after lunch, when a scout from the Barbizon Modeling and Acting School asked if he’d like to become a model. It was a moment that changed his life. As expected, his desi parents were reluctant – they...
