by Charu Thakur | May 20, 2022
(May 20, 2022) Sitting at a height of 9,383 ft above sea level, Najira Noushad found her Sherpa hastily telling her that she cannot make it to the Everest base camp (17,598 ft) in five days. As a mother of five who had never stepped into a gym, the Sherpa reckoned the...
by Amrita Priya | May 2, 2022
(May 2, 2022) The snow-covered peaks of Gulmarg have been Olympic skier Arif Mohammed Khan’s playground since he was a child. At four, when he first tried skiing, assisted by his skier father Yasin Khan, Arif was thrilled. Soon skiing became an everyday affair....
by Namrata Srivastava | Apr 27, 2022
(April 27, 2022) A woman gets diagnosed with breast cancer every four minutes in India, and one dies of it every 13 minutes, making it the most prevalent cancer among Indian women. Unfortunately, in India, most women are diagnosed at an advanced stage where prognosis...
by Amrita Priya | Apr 23, 2022
(April 23, 2022) Manjeet Mann has been riding on the success of her books. Her debut novel Run Rebel was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2021, and won the CILIP Carnegie Shadowers’ Choice Award, the UKLA Award, Diverse Book Award and Sheffield Children’s Book...
by Charu Thakur | Apr 28, 2022
(April 28, 2022) Age is just a number – the adage perfectly fits this “61-year-young” retired garment exporter Amarjeet Singh Chawla who travelled from Delhi to London by car at an age when most hang up their boots. The passion to travel the world in his gaadi...