Yuvraj Shah (he/him) is an Opinions Editor and a member of the Editorial Board.
He has a wide range of public speaking experience, and has spent the past two summers interning with the New England Review and Middlebury College Admissions. Yuvraj is joint majoring in English and History and minoring in Chinese. He hails from London, U.K. and Nairobi, Kenya. He is a UWC Davis Scholar.
For those of us who are on the left of the political spectrum, patriotism tends to have a negative reputation. It is commonly associated with conservative thinking, nationalist policy and imperialist tendencies. Yet, I fiercely believe a patriotic society can, and must, co-exist with a liberal and forward-thinking ...
I never expected to end up in the United States. When researching and applying to universities, the U.S. seemed like the last place on my list. However, two and a half years later I find myself here, in America. I moved here thinking I would learn about the U.S. But now I can say with confidence that ...
My go-to response to any icebreaker question is that I speak four languages. It piques peoples’ interest, allows me to organically share the many places I call home and reminds me of my history. “I speak four languages.” This is not false, but I have to confess that it is not entirely true either. ...
Do children learn from their parents, or do parents learn from their children?
