Team Chronos — a quartet comprising Sumit Patil, Pulkit Agarwal, and Sohan Jawale, all fourth year mechanical engineering students at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) and Tanuj Jhunjhunwala (third year) — has designed the prototype of an electric wheelchair which bagged the first prize for the most sustainable design in the Autodesk Sustainability […]
Letting her imagination run riot is the most natural pastime of teenage novelist Harshita Magdum (14). Her novel Almost… desperate (Stalwart Publications, Rs.300) was released at the Press Club, Bangalore by Kannada writer Sa.Si. Murliah on January 19. This is the young writers second book after Ruby Rush (Ruvari Publications) was published in 2010, with […]
On April 10, Tanya Narula (24), a final year fashion design student of the Pearl Academy of Fashion (PAF), Delhi (affiliated with the Nottingham University, UK), received the coveted Wills Lifestyle Debut Award of the Fashion Design Council of India. Tanyas all-white collection of traditional texured phoolkari with beads and laser cuts, embellished with gold […]
Kolkata-based Gaurav Tekriwal (30) is a man with a mission. He is hell-bent upon abolishing the fear of mathematics (aka maths phobia), ubiquitous in school and college students. A numbers and calculus wizard in his own right, this finance postgrad of the University of Calcutta and certified chartered financial analyst believes that maths phobia can […]
Neha Kalekar, a final year information technology engineering student of Maharashtras showpiece College of Engineering, Pune (COEP, estb.1854), was among eight winners chosen from more than 200 contenders for the Google India Women in Engineering Awards 2010, held in Hyderabad in March this year. The awards acknowledge outstanding women computer science students with the objective […]
Aclass IX student of the national capitals prestigious Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram, Kartik Sawhney, despite being visually challenged, is the recipient of many national and international awards and prizes. On November 14, 2009 (Childrens Day) he added another accolade to his already impressive tally of awards by winning the National Child Award for Exceptional […]
Kinga Malec (21) has been learning North Indias classical kathak dance form under the tutelage of Lucknow-based Pandit Arjun Misra since August. A student of various dance forms since the age of six, Kinga taught dance for a whole year in Warsaw to save funds to come to India. This is my first visit but […]
For the first time in her life, on May 21 Pune-based Krushnaa Patil (19) got the feeling of truly being on top of the world. On that day she became the first woman from Maharashtra — Indias most industrialised state (pop. 99 million) — and only the second individual from the state, to stand atop […]
A final year English literature student of Mumbais National College, Nirja Patyal (20) divides her time between attending lectures and rehearsing with the theatre group Josh, which she founded with eight friends in 2005.Theatre always fascinated me, but for a long time it remained just a pipe dream. Then during my summer holidays after my […]
Right now Heena Nasreen (14), Delhis kickboxing champion, is in Bangkok with six other martial art players representing India in the first ever Asian Martial Art Games 2009 (April 25-May 3). This inaugural event has attracted over 2,500 fit and fully-trained martial arts exponents from 42 countries who will face-off to vie for gold, silver […]
Mumbai-based Reuben Pereira (19) aka Bbreak17 spends most part of his days on a computer playing the FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association or International Federation of Association Football) computer game, which is played by 3.5 million e-gamers everyday worldwide for fun, and competitively for money. A professional e-sports gamer for the past four years, […]
Tejal Sudarshan Raut (11), resident of Sonale, a small village (pop. 812) in the Thane district of Maharashtra, had never stepped into the world beyond until a few months ago. But in December she was selected to represent her school run by the Quality Education Support Trust (an NGO promoted by Nilesh and Meena Nimkar), […]
A first year economics student of Delhi Universitys Hansraj College, Kartikey Joshi (18) has just returned from a ten-day National Shooting Championship held in Thodokuza, Ernakulam district, Kerala between January 10-19. Organised by the National Rifles Association of India, the event attracted 1,000 sharpshooters from across the country. Participating in the 10 metres and 50 […]
A first year mass communications student of Bangalores Shri Bhagawan Mahaveer College, the overriding passion of Viraja Achar (20) is to put Indian athletics on the world map.She started running at the age of eight, and ever since then, shes been building up the spirit and stamina to stand on the London Olympics 2012 winners […]
A Marathi language biography titled Manashri — Eka Drishtiheen Mulichi Netra-deepak Yashogatha (‘Manashri — A visually-impaired girls enlightening success story), narrating an against-the-odds success story of Mumbai-based Manashri Soman (16), has just gone into its second edition after 2,000 copies flew off shelves in 90 days after its release in July (2008). Authored by Sumedh […]
Sudhanshu Sinhal (23) is the youngest scion of the Sinhal clan to join the family business — Sinhal Classes, Mumbai (estb.1981), one of the citys most well-known names in the private tutoring and public exams preparation business. Currently Sinhal Classes — a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sinhal Classes Pvt. Ltd — manages ten tuition centres across […]
A class XII commerce student of the CBSE-affiliated Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School in Chennai, Shruti Neelakantan has just returned from a 13-day expedition (September 7-20) to the Arctic Circle. Organised by British Council, Canada in collaboration with Cape Farewell, the objective of the London-based trans-national programme is to raise awareness about the global climate […]
Dehradun-based Vandana Panwar (23), who has just graduated (in English, economics and political science) from HNB Garhwal University, is the winner of the gold medal in the giant slalom snow skiing event of the National Winter Games held earlier (February) this year, at Gulmarg in Kashmir. Crossing the finishing line ahead of 30 contestants from […]
Although he is still a B.Tech student of Thapar University, Patiala, Kavya Garg (19) is already a successful entrepreneur running a business enterprise poised to cross a sales turnover of Rs.60 lakh by the end of the current fiscal year ending March 31, 2009.
Aravind Mani (13) is a quintessential amphibian. Winner of three gold medals (50 m backstroke, 100 m backstroke and 200 m individual medley) in the 25th sub-junior nationals held at Kolkata in June this year, this Bangalore boy has been at home in the water world ever since he was three.A decade later, Aravind displays […]
A class VII student of Mumbais high-profile Podar World School, Ruhi Saraf (12) gave her academic career a five grade jump when she passed the rigorous ‘A level (class XII) exam of the UK-based Cambridge International Examination (CIE) board recently. In the exam held at Podar World School last May, Ruhi wrote four papers receiving […]
Although hes not a teenager yet, Gumlee Ete (11), a class VII student of Dehra Duns SelaQui World School, is well on his way to becoming a literateur and writer. And thats certified by the Gurgaon-based Scholastic India Pvt Ltd, a company engaged in the business of publishing childrens books.A contestant in the Scholastic India […]
Four years after she first held a squash racquet in her hand, Chennai-based Aparajitha Balamurukan (14) has registered her presence as a player of promise at the state, national and international levels. This energetic youngster has won her second international title in the under-15 category at the Milo All Star International Squash Championship held in […]
Middle class Indias love affair with government jobs shows no signs of abating despite a huge number of career opportunities available to youth, following incre-mental liberalisation and deregulation of the economy since 1991. Evidence of this enamourment was very much on display when 327,683 college and university graduates wrote the Union Public Service Commissions (UPSC) […]
Utilising the attraction and love of the worlds most popular team game — football aka soccer — Ashok Rathod (20) has initiated a pioneering effort to educate children of the 30,000-strong Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar slum colony in south Mumbai. Rathod invites the children for football training and when they are hooked onto the game, he […]
In February this year, Sagar Gandhi (15), a class X student of City Montessori School (CMS), Lucknow became the first student from Uttar Pradesh in 22 years to top grade 2 of the Trinity Guildhall Foundation Level Graded Examination in Musical Performance — an exam written by 200 music students in north India. For this […]
For Krithi Chandar Sundaram (16) a class XII student of the National Public School (Indiranagar), Bangalore, participating in a competition is not all about winning but the learning experience, which she cherishes equally. Nevertheless she was adjudged winner of the first Indian National Brain Bee championship finals staged at the Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences, […]
A budding scientist, environment conscious activist and above all, a crusader against climate change. Thats Jaswanth Madhavan (17), a class XI student of Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Senior Secondary School (Nungambakkam), Chennai, whose innovative ideas and responses to the challenges of climate change and global warming is jetting him around the world.Jaswanths eco-friendly initiatives began […]
Chennai-based Sai Shravanam’s (26) gradual transition from an infant percussionist (tabla) to music composer happened quite naturally. Drawn to the tabla at the tender age of six, he was spotted by maestro Zakir Hussain four years later. Early percussion lessons from Hussain and his brother Fazal Quereshi burnished his talent and he performed on stage […]
Down-to-earth, energetic and enthusiastic Alish Pekha, a class XII student of Dehradun’s SelaQui World School, won honours while representing the Indian squad which bagged the winners’ trophy in the six-a-side cricket tournament sponsored by the Cricket Federation of Nepal, last August in Kathmandu (Nepal). Alish Pekha was handpicked from among 60 […]
For Arvind Aradhya (18) the grand prize was worth the effort — grilling aptitude and skills tests and hours of closed-door studio shoots. On August 18 in a special one hour programme telecast on the pan-India news television channel NDTV 24/7, Aradhya was announced winner (together with four others) of the NDTV Scholarship Hunt, Destination […]
A late entrant into the booming student coaching and tutoring industry, Rati Tehri has come a long way in a short time. Launched only a year ago (November 2006), her sardonically christened website www.totalgadha.com, offering 24/7 coaching and mentoring to B-school entrance exam aspirants, attracts 223,000 visitors per month. “Totalgadha.com has been ranked by Google as […]
Ruchi Tiwari (18) describes herself as an ordinary girl who loves Hindi film music and eating out. But this Kanpur-based teenager bagged an extraordinary honour in July when she won a bronze medal at the 12th Asian Junior Athletics Meet (Tapai, Macau) in pole-vault, an athletics sub-sport which doesn’t appear even on the periphery of […]
Five students of Loyola College, Chennai — Ignacy Arockiyaa, Gracia Joseph, Samson Durai, Keshav Nair and Midhun Joseph — all members of Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) were adjudged joint winners of the SIFE National Competition 2007 held in Mumbai on June 19-20.
Sponsored by information technology major Syntel, the open event attracted 20 teams […]
Shweta SadanandanThe sailing fraternity in Chennai is all agog about the high seas achievements of super sailor Shweta Sadanandan (12), a class VIII student of Chettinad Vidyashram who won two national events hosted by the Tamil Nadu Sailing Association (TNSA) under the aegis of the Yachting Association of India (YAI) and the National Optimist Association […]
A final year fine arts studentof Delhi’s well-known Jamia Milia Islamia University (JMI), Tabrez Hassan Ansari is on cloud nine following the inclusion of his oil canvas titled Women-I in the 79th All India Art Exhibition 2007. Staged in early March by the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, the exhibition was inaugurated by eminent artist […]
Although it has become a fashionable sport for the middle class, in India the mind and muscle game of the golfing greens has yet to acquire the mass popularity it has attained abroad. Golf courses are relatively scarce, and playing equipment is expensive. Hence the total number of golfers countrywide is estimated at a mere […]
The story of 13-year-old Benzy Kumar, a special needs class III student of Laxman Public School, Delhi who was awarded the gold medal (of the Union ministry of women’s development and welfare) in last year’s National Child Awards for exceptional achievement by prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on November 14 (Children’s Day), is very near […]
Neha Ahuja If there‚s one olympic sport in which tropical India‚s chances of winning a medal are remote, if not impossible, it‚s snow skiing. But Delhi-based Neha Ahuja (25) doesn‚t agree. Right now she is in Charlotte, North Carolina trainingfor the 6th Asian Winter Games to be held in China next January (2007). The first […]
An electronics and communications engineering graduate of Chennai’s Sri Sairam Engineering College, Arvind Ramanandan has been awarded the University of California Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship Award of Rs.55 lakh ($121,597). This scholarship entitles him to commence a doctoral programme in electrical engineering at UCal, Riverside, skipping the usually mandatory intervening postgraduate programme. On August 18 Ramanandan […]
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