A few months earlier, I couldn’t have imagined sharing a burrito with an Egyptian, discussing religion with an Arab, or envisioning world peace with a Pakistani. The 7 weeks spent at Harvard Summer School seemed to have made me more internationally open-minded than the growing-up years I had spent in India and Thailand. I was able to step out of my cocoon, explore a new life and embrace the world away from the coddling and cosseting familial walls. From celebrating...

Stanford Supplement Essay - India, a land of great paradoxes, has been surprising me with its different shades as I get to know her. Its bright side, with its respectful cultures and indomitable wisdom shadows its dark side of disparity and blatant poverty. A land that states that all Indians are brothers doesn’t even let its house-helpers sit at the same tables. After devoting an entire day just to bring some smiles to some underprivileged children, I shared experience...

Cornell Supplement essay - I am fascinated by Business. I always have been. Every 7p.m. of my childhood was full of suited-up men discussing stocks and shares on ‘BBC News’ as I sat next to my father, not so suited-up. Wondering why a 10-year-old was so intrigued by numerical figures instead of animated cartoons on television? Well, I wanted to be taken seriously. Dad cultivated my interest in Business by handing me a bunch of corporate problems and he...