by Amrita Priya | Feb 18, 2025
(February 18, 2025) On Australia Day 2025, 12-year-old Ashleen Khela, who is one of the youngest authors in Australia, was honoured as the Hills ‘Young Citizen of the Year.’ The accolade was not just a recognition of her talent, rather it was a celebration of her...
by Amrita Priya | Aug 1, 2024
(July 19, 2024) US-based author Sanjana Thakur is the winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story, ‘Aishwarya Rai,’. The 26-year-old, who emerged victorious from 7,359 entries from Commonwealth countries around the world, has also received a...
by Darshana Ramdev | Nov 27, 2022
(November 28, 2022) Laiba Abdul Basit remembers the very first book she ever read. “It was 101 Stories for Girls,” she tells me. A prolific reader by the time she began school, the now eleven-year-old Laiba Abdul Basit entered the Guinness World Records in...
by Namrata Srivastava | Nov 6, 2022
(November 6, 2022) Even as a child, she was sure that one day she would sparkle on the silver screen. And now, it seems, that her moment has finally arrived. After doing some fabulous series including Spin, Senior Year, and Diary of a Future President, Indian-American...
