Eshaan Mani

Eshaan Mani and his teacher Toki Singh perform on the dhol, an Indian drum.

SCHOOL BUZZ 2021-22 Some of our correspondents gathered before the start of school to coordinate for the upcoming year. Pictured are (front row, from left) Eliot Aiman, St. John’s School; Kate-Yeonjae Jeong, Kinder HSPVA; Tulsi Parikh, Memorial High School; Tina Li, Carnegie Vanguard High School; Maya Harpavat, St. Agnes Academy; Mary-Ellen Abshire, St. Thomas’ Episcopal School; (second row, from left) Berkley Matthews, Memorial High School; Abby Cowan, The Emery/Weiner School; Ayushi Mohanty, Carnegie Vanguard High School; Viola Holmes, British International School of Houston; Sana Malhotra, British International School of Houston; Lauren Haas, The Emery/Weiner School; (third row, from left) Rushil Chetty, Strake Jesuit; Bailey Raymond, St. Agnes Academy; Rebecca Jackson, St. Francis Episcopal School; Sara Stribling, The Briarwood School; Hank Davis, Stratford High School; Gabriela Rodriguez, Carnegie Vanguard High School; (back row, from left) Eshaan Mani, The Kinkaid School; Scout Novelli, The Briarwood School; Jasmine Sidhu, Michael E. DeBakey High School for Health Professions; Alina Syed, The Awty International School; Laine Lohfink, Memorial High School; Matthew Jeong, Kinder HSPVA; and Denise Walsh, Incarnate Word Academy. (Photo: hartphoto.com)

Eshaan Mani

The back cover shows all of the students involved in putting this edition of the iWRITER together: Eshaan Mani, Katie Giveon, Kate-Yeonjae Jeong, Nia Shetty, Prisha Shivani, Lexi Bumah, Austin Lopez, Annie Jones, Vedant Gupta, Mariah Adeeko, Sanjna Pandit, Alex Zhang, Halliday Mafrige, and Sophie Yu.

Eshaan Mani has been spending much of his quarantine time writing.