Anneysha Sarkar

At a winter school that I participated in this month, I met people from different parts of the world, each with a challenge that they wanted to tackle, and a cause worth fighting for. All of us had something in common: we wanted to embrace diversity and tackle the challenges that surrounded it. We were interested in contributing to a more equitable world and wanted to tackle challenges surrounding race, gender, social status, wealth and beyond. During our three weeks together at the winter school, we learnt how inequality was caused and its impact on communities across the world. Then, we brought our own communities into context as we worked on a project that would contribute to the efforts made to solve the problem. In addition to learning about inequality, we also received training on Project Management - which supercharged our ideas into actionable projects. My project was about including more women to STEM discussions. I came up with a project to organise a series of hands-on works...

This colour palette tries to capture those emotions. I looked forward to visiting my grandparents the most every summer break. When I reminisce those visually blurry memories, I remember following him everywhere - grocery, milk booth, post office, park, vegetable market and bank - while he tried to teach me as much math as he could by associating numbers with daily life. He wore white pyjamas and now even after he has got more colourful pyjamas, I distinctly remember the white ones. Summer at my grandparents’ also meant peak fruit season. One of my favourite fruits in our orchard is the Himsagar mango . The pulp of the mango was a dark, vermillion orange. Every morning I would run downstairs to collect any mangoes that might have fallen off the trees, which we enjoyed together. In addition to delicious mangoes, my grandmother cooked me yummy sunny-side-up eggs every morning. She is such a chef! Finally, one of my best memories is my grandfather letting me scribble math equations (back...