Talking passionately about his life-long journey and music-related trajectory, business consultant and artist, Rohit Batra mentions, “I have been interested in music for as long as I can remember.” Born in New York, USA, Batra’s life was subject to a series of considerable changes quite early on. He moved to India at the impressionable age
With campuses closed to visits from prospective college students, The Indian SCENE is bringing the college experience to you. For this month’s issue, The Indian SCENE spoke with Rohan Mehta of Plano, Texas, an up-and-coming biomedical engineering major at the University of Texas at Austin, presently pursuing a pre-health certificate. Mehta is set to graduate
With campuses closed to visits from prospective college students, The Indian SCENE is bringing the college experience to you. This time, The Indian SCENE spoke with Julie Jaipati of Farmington Hills, Michigan, who is a budding freshman at the University of Chicago. Jaipati is presently double majoring in Economics and Environmental and Urban Studies. She
For Archana Aneja, the stunning Kashmir valley, rightfully known as “Paradise on Earth” was what signified home, a place she was born in, and where she spent much of her early childhood. Growing up, such surroundings replete with tremendous beauty and mysticism had a lasting impact on Aneja’s psyche and innate art. In the subsequent
Born in Kishangarh, Rajasthan, Aashita Biyani kickstarted her dance journey rather early in life with her mother’s nudge. She began dancing at the tender age of two and a half years. She recollects being sent on stage, whereupon Biyani cried and came back down. Since then, her mother has been a driving force in teaching
With campuses closed to visits from prospective college students, The Indian SCENE is bringing the college experience to you. This time around, The Indian SCENE spoke with Ninaad Lakshman of Downington, Pennsylvania, a promising computer science major at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Located in the very heart of Atlanta, the institution offers a sprawling
With campuses closed to visits from prospective students, the Indian SCENE is bringing the college experience to you. This week, in a slightly different installment, The Indian SCENE spoke with Tej Munshi, a soccer player and aspiring doctor, about the recruitment process and the demands of being a college athlete. Munshi, a sophomore pre-medicine major, was
Growing up in the Toronto area, Local 4 WDIV Detroit anchor Priya Mann “devoured” the news. Her parents subscribed to the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail, and together they’d discuss opinion pieces, cultural trends and the day’s controversies. Pursuing a career in journalism seemed like a logical next step, though it wasn’t until
With campuses closed to visits from prospective students, the Indian SCENE is bringing its own college tours to you. This week, The Indian SCENE spoke with Rohan Kansagra of Warren, New Jersey, a sophomore at Washington University in St. Louis, studying environmental engineering and economics. WashU, as it’s known, boasts an impressive student to faculty ratio
With campuses closed to visits from prospective students, the Indian SCENE is bringing its own college tours to you. This week, The Indian SCENE spoke with Riya Doshi of Bloomfield Hills, a rising sophomore at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Doshi is majoring in Medicine, Health, and Society — a field of study comparable to public