by Amrita Priya | Aug 27, 2024
(August 27, 2024) Manish Polavarapu, a US-based finance professional at JPMorganChase, is often asked why he chose the name ‘Fortitude’ for his non-profit, as it doesn’t immediately convey the feel of an NGO. “When brainstorming a name, I realized...
by Amrita Priya | Jun 28, 2024
(June 28, 2024) The USA cricket team made history by qualifying for the Super Eight stage of the ongoing T20 World Cup in their very first appearance in the tournament. Achieving a remarkable victory over the previous edition’s finalists, Pakistan, they...
by Amrita Priya | Jun 24, 2024
(June 24, 2024) Indian American venture capitalist Lak Ananth begins the introduction of his book ‘Anticipate Failure’ on a rather poetic note. “O traveller, why worry about sorrow? Happiness is but a transient shadow that comes and goes. Sorrow is our companion,” he...
by Amrita Priya | Jun 19, 2024
(June 19, 2024) After earning a fully funded admission into a PhD program in Crop and Soil Sciences at Michigan State University, Prakash Kumar Jha, a native of Madhubani in Bihar, first landed in the US nine years ago. He was met with culture shock and a desperate...
by Amrita Priya | Jun 13, 2024
(June 13, 2024) After obtaining two fully funded PhDs. – one in cytogenetics from Ranchi University and another in molecular biology from Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg – and a postdoc degree from Aarhus University, Denmark, on a UNESCO...
