Young Achiever: Samvida Venkatesh
Within nine days of American-Indian Snigdha Nandipati making history by winning the 85th edition of the annual national Scripps Spelling Bee 2012 contest staged in May in Washington DC, USA — in which Americans of Indian origin have bagged first rank for five years consecutively — Bangalore-based Samvida Venkatesh (15) was crowned national champion in […]
Tradition of righteous reaction
Rajiv Desai is president of Comma Consulting, Delhi
Through my pre-teen and teenage years, I spent a lot of time with my grandfather. He was a medical practitioner, theosophist, Congress party activist and a compassionate human being — my ideal.
One summer when my siblings and I were visiting his home in Surat, someone told him I […]