(Note: Priyank Lathwal (4th year Ph.D. student, Carnegie Mellon University) and Shyamli Badgaiyan (2nd year MBA student, Harvard Business School) joined forces to raise nearly $330,000 ( ₹2.41cr) for COVID-19 relief in India. Within a few weeks, scores of lives and livelihoods have been overturned and a fragile health system burdened. As students at US universities, the realities in our two homes could not have felt more far apart. Students across the US were grappling with similar instincts, carrying with them both despair and a drive to act. Priyank Lathwal is a 4th year Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University and Shyamli Badgaiyan is a 2nd year MBA student, Harvard Business School.

Source: Hindustan Times May 07, 2021 17:37 UTC