THE INDOFILES

Ok, so maybe Sidharth Chand wasn’t all he was cracked up to be. When the 2008 runner-up bowed out early in the competition, the road was cleared for a confident Kavya Shivashankar to battle through 16 competitive rounds to the Scripps National Spelling Bee Championship - overcoming the personality-less Tim Ruiter to claim the crown. [...]

And then there were 7.
If U.S. boxing has Ali-Frazier, then spelling has Shivashankar-Chand. The two desi wunderkinds advanced easily into the finals accompanied by nine others where they will duel it out this evening in the finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Seven of the 11 finalists are of desi origin, once again proving [...]