Indian American contestants have dominated the Scripps National Spelling Bee in recent years. For many of them, that’s a reflection on the drive and success of their immigrant parents. Dev Shah, 14, ...
Last night, 13-year-old Faizan Zaki of Plano, Texas, won the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee. Including Faizan, whose parents emigrated from India, 30 of the past 36 champions have been Indian ...
When Balu Natarajan became the first Indian American champion of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 1985, a headline on an Associated Press article read, “Immigrants’ son wins National Spelling Bee, ...
When Shruthi Ayyagari was about 10 or 11 years old, she asked her mother for a dictionary. “I was like, ‘Oh my god, I really want to familiarize myself more with spelling and English and language,” ...
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