(October 18, 2024) In 2015, Karthik Ramu’s life changed in a way that few teenagers could have anticipated. His grandfather, living thousands of miles away in Coimbatore, India, suffered a near-fatal heart attack. Karthik, at the time a high school student in...
(June 19, 2024) Growing up in Bengaluru, Jeya Malhotra often saw children with intellectual disabilities being mocked or bullied in her apartment complex. The sight was painful as these kids couldn’t defend themselves, but what she found daunting was the lack of...
(January 26, 2024) Up to 7800 kilotonnes of textile waste gets accumulated in India each year with pre-consumer waste making for a steep 42 percent, out of which 17 percent ends up in landfills. Seeing piles of wasted fabric stacked in corners of his dad’s...
(October 11, 2023) “My activism doesn’t come as a choice. My activism doesn’t come as a hobby. It’s a survival tool for my community,” says Kevin J Patel, a Los Angeles-based climate activist, who is the founder of OneUpAction...
(August 11, 2023) Kahani, which translates to storytelling, has found its place in hospitals in Chicago and other parts of the US. A digital arts and literary magazine that’s distributed to children’s hospitals for kindergarten to middle-school-age...