The Story So Far
When the world was in the throes of a pandemic, Abir Sawhney, Aniruddha Iyer Bali, Ransher Brar, Sift Sandhu and Tiya Chhabra, decided to share positive news with each other across Current Affairs, Science, Technology and Business News . We shared some cool book ideas to read and movie reviews to beat the ennui. The weekly calls, goaded by our school teacher Ms Neelima Singh, culminated into a e-weekly newspaper called "The World This Week", that began in May 2021.
A few from the core team decided to take a break from the weekly timelines to focus on music, ballet amongst other things. A new editorial team took over the reins under the continued guidance of Valuez Gurucool the ed-tech who believed in the power of writing and more importantly us. They have been instrumental in distributing the paper through their Ed tech company, mentoring us, offering us suggestions and helping us edit, design and the layout of the paper since May 2021. Aniruddha Iyer Bali, Kartik Anand, Khyati Samnani, Kimaya Modi and Siddharth Gupta continued to write, debate and sometimes oscillate between how much to keep and how much to delete from the final edit. We finally decided to take a hiatus in October 2024 with challenges of collaborating with board exam for one, boarding school for another turning to be deterrent.
The much needed break of a year helped us to regroup, refocus, realign, and reinvent our core ideology with an almost new editorial board of young minds. We had one more thing in common, we are in a boarding school together where weekends are spent bonding over books and games. The paper moved to being a fortnightly and between mid-terms and trials, the rebranded paper called "The World Around Us", was born. The ideology remains the same but now as teen boys we decided to write and manage the paper with a laser sharp focus on issues that plague, bother and amuse our generation.
Co-founded by Aniruddha Iyer Bali, Sabir Singh Ahuja, Vaibhav Sudarshan Uppal and Vihaan Sudarshan Uppal, the first edition rolled out on 25th November 2025, just as we were packing our bags to head home for the winter break. The encouragement of the Head Master, House Masters, Valuez Gurucool and our friends from the school ensured we were on the right track. Winter of 2025 was spent meeting often, nudging classmates to write and read the paper and envisioning what we must do going forward.
Partnering with inchpaper.com, We Care Foundation partner schools, DAV schools, Phagwara was another step towards ensuring the paper reached a far wider audience. Guest editors and columnists, interviews with changemakers and real community impact is what drives us besides choir practice and football in school. Weekends are spent writing, catching up in the library and trying to keep ourselves abreast of all that seems to currently be happening in the world.
Core Team
Aniruddha Iyer Bali
Founder & Editor
Sabir Singh Ahuja
Founder & Editor
Vaibhav Sudarshan Uppal
Founder & Editor
Vihaan Sudarshan
Founder & Editor
What Drives Us
Environmental Advocacy
Advocating for sustainable living, including our long-running campaign against the use of polluting fire crackers.
Compassion & Empathy
Through our "Heal the World" series, we shed light on challenges faced by underprivileged and war-affected individuals worldwide.