About the Princeton Club of India
The Princeton Club of India (PCI) is Princeton's gateway to India.
Join us to keep abreast of planned events, post thoughts, inquiries & suggestions, and help us to build the Princeton-India network for the future!
To join, please subscribe to the Princeton-India Discussion Group via Tigernet.You will need to register and login to Tigernet and follow the online instructions to subscribe to the group. The Princeton-India group can be found under the Regional groups header.
Did you know - PCI has the distinction of being the first of Princeton’s international regional associations, having been formed in 1910. After lying dormant for several years, it was re-started in 2006.
Indian Tigers
[profiles of recent alumni from India. Princeton's offical mascot is the tiger (and hence the University's colours are orange and black). By happy coincidence, India's national animal is also the tiger - Panthera Tigris!]
 Ritu Kamal, Class of 2007: Ritu attended the Villa Theresa school in Bombay and graduated from the Notre Dame Academy in Patna. At Princeton, Ritu majored in electrical engineering and also received certificates in bioengineering and neuroscience. She worked in Cape Town after graduation as a Princeton-in-Africa fellow. She has a masters degree from the University of Pennsylvania and currently works as a Stanford India Biodesign fellow.
Fun Fact: Ritu took a course with Zakir Hussain. |
 Rahul Mehra, Class of 2007: Rahul was born and raised in Bombay and attended Campion School. He completed high school in the US prior to entering Princeton, where he majored in Economics. After a brief stint on Wall Street, Rahul moved back to Bombay in 2008 and now works for his family’s business. A bibliophile, he was twice awarded the Elmer Adler Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize organized by the Princeton University Library. Rahul is co-Chair for the India Alumni Schools Committee (ASC).
Fun Fact: Sprightly of mind and physique, Rahul served as coxswain of the varsity lightweight rowing team for four years goading them on to bigger and better things, a skill that continues to serve him well as a key PCI team member! |
 Jayson Paulose, Class of 2007: Jayson was born in Bombay and raised in Cochin, Kerala. He attended the Toc-H school in Cochin until standard 10 and, pursuant to winning the Singapore Airlines Youth Scholarship, graduated from Victoria Junior College in Singpaore . At Princeton, Jayson majored in Physics, and also completed certificates in Engineering Physics and the Program in Applications of Computing. In the Fall of 2007, Jayson will enter Harvard University, where he will begin work towards a Ph.D in Applied Physics.
Fun Fact: played snare drums for the Princeton University Band, and also played drums for a campus jam/classic rock cover band, Spinglass. |
 Sashank Rishyasringa, Class of 2006: A native of Bombay, Sashank attended the Cathedral & John Connon School until the 10th grade, and completed high school at the United World College (UWC) Atlantic campus. An economics major, Sashank also served as President of the International Relations Council (IRC), a forum for students to study and discuss international issues, as well as host/attend Model UN and other similar conferences/simulations. After graduating from Princeton, Sashank joined McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm.
Fun Fact: Made a documentary film, "A Thousand Arms for the World," about Tibetan Buddhism in Ladakh, after being awarded a Martin Dale Fellowship, which allows undergraduates to pursue a creative project unrelated to their academic work over a summer. |
Princeton in Asia (PiA) - India Fellows
[PiA, affiliated with Princeton University and based on campus, has been providing talented young people with various opportunities to live and work in Asia for over 100 years. In 2007, PiA placed 125 fellows in 17 countries in Asia, working in teaching, journalism, international development/NGO and international business positions. India is the latest addition to the group of countries in which PiA fellows serve. Profiles of recent PiA India fellows are featured below]
 Zachary Hindin. Born and raised in South Florida, Zachary Hindin graduated summa cum laude from the George Washington University in Washington DC, majoring in Philosophy and Global Politics and minoring in Jazz Performance. From 2006-2010, Hindin co-directed Banaa.org, an NGO that secures scholarships for survivors of genocide in Sudan to attend universities across the United States. Hindin is also an avid student of music, leaving Washington to study Hindustani classical music in Varnasi during the spring of 2009. From June 2010 thru March 2011, Hindin will serve as a high school teacher in Kadod, a village in rural Gujurat. Under the aegis of a fellowship from Princeton in Asia, Hindin's time as a teacher will support the Nanubhai Education Foundation's strategic initiative to bridge India's rural-urban education gap. After his post in Kadod, Hindin hopes to find work writing in India and abroad. |
 Sadaf Minapara. Sadaf Minapara, an adventure addict and major foodie, was born and raised in San Francisco, California. Having studied Political Science and South and Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley, Sadaf is enthused to be heading to a city that once was the capital of the Mughal Empire. Sadaf looks forward to working as a visiting researcher to The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). She plans to be awed by the beautiful architecture, indulged in street food and hopes to return with the swagger of a true Delhian. |
 Hannah McDonald-Moniz, Class of 2010. Hannah grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia and graduated from Charlottesville High School before coming to Princeton. At Princeton, Hannah concentrated in French and Italian languages and cultures, and wrote a thesis on travel writing and culture in the islands of Corsica and Sardinia. She was a member of the Cap and Gown Club and the Italian Honor Society and interned for the website Bonjour Paris through the Princeton-in-France program. She will be in India for a year after graduation in Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, as a Princeton in Asia teaching fellow at the Kodaikanal International School. Hannah will be teaching French, Music, and ESL, and helping with other on-campus activities. |
 Sareeta Shah. Born and raised in New Jersey, Sareeta Shah graduated from Holmdel High School and went on to double major in Biological Sciences and Political Science at Rutgers University in New Brunswick in 2008. Sareeta was accepted into the Princeton in Asia fellowship program after graduation, and is now beginning her second year as a PiA fellow at the Naz Foundation, a public health NGO, in New Delhi.
Fun Fact: She was a coxswain for the NCAA Rutgers Varsity Women’s Crew Team and misses watching sunrises on the river and calling power tens dearly. |
Other Tiger Alums in India
 Alice Easton, Class of 2009. Alice graduated in 2009 with a degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and a certificate from the Woodrow Wilson School. She currently works in Delhi for the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy (http://www.cddep.org) on the Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership, and also serves as Co-Chair for the Alumni Schools Committee (ASC) for India. Alice first visited India in 2008 to conduct thesis research on HIV control programs in southern India, when and was based at the St. John’s Research Institute in Bangalore (http://www.sjri.res.in/).
Fun Fact: In Delhi, serving as a volunteer for the Aman Biradari Dil Se initiative (http://www.amanbiradari.org/dilse.html), Alice teaches dance classes to students at a residential school for former street children. |
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