Adil Mukhi: An Indo-Canadian teen championing youth health education

by Charu Thakur | Aug 14, 2025

(August 14, 2025) In Grade 9 at Glenforest Secondary School in Mississauga, Adil Mukhi kept hearing the same story from friends: they wanted to become doctors but didn’t know how to start. Some were unsure about medical school requirements, others didn’t know where to...

‘Landed in Korea’: Kerala’s Seetha shines in her debut Indo-Korean drama

by Amrita Priya | Aug 29, 2024

(August 29, 2024) This month, HBC House South Korea premiered its eight-episode mini-series ‘Landed in Korea’ on YouTube. Billed as the first Indo-Korean drama, it has received positive reviews from audiences eager for something different – a fusion of two...

This 15 year old mountaineer is the youngest to summit Europe’s highest peak in 24 hours

by vikram | Aug 9, 2024

(August 9, 2024) Padakanti Vishwanath Karthikey used to be a lazy kid, for whom being healthy was not a priority. But that was until the day he, as an 11 year old, accompanied his sister Vaishnavi on a trek to Mt Rudugaira in Uttarakhand. He trekked till the first...

Meet Lavik Jain, the eight year old who just published his debut novel

by vikram | Jun 22, 2024

(June 22, 2024) Lavik Jain has always had a vivid imagination. Once, he imagined that pop star Justin Bieber’s favourite sweater went missing, then went on to weave a story out of it. This was the first time he had put his creative thoughts down on paper. It’s...

Angad Daryani: Infusing ‘praan’ into the environment by cutting down air pollution

by Charu Thakur | Jun 2, 2024

(June 2, 2024) Blue skies, no masks, and clean air – that’s how entrepreneur Angad Daryani and his clean tech startup Praan vision the world. An inspiration that he found while growing up with asthma in the heart of Mumbai. Each year, he would move to the...