Connect. Inform. Integrate
Young Voices is a platform for our young writers (up to 16 years of age) to express themselves. We invite you to share your:
- Art and/or poetry
- Fictional or real stories
- Travel tales and/or reviews of events, books, places
- Favorite recipes or DIYs and more…
Have an idea for an article? Let us know! Just make sure it’s not political or religious!
Your creativity and imagination know no bounds and we are happy to publish your contributions on Young Voices.
Would you like to write for Young Voices?
We accept up to five articles each month. So, connect with us at team@namasteswitzerland.ch.
Stay tuned and thank you for reading!
Nayana Chakrabarti
Young Voices editor
Nayana lives in Zurich with her husband and children and she dons many hats. She is a teacher and a writer at heart. She teaches English Language and Literature in Zurich while her written work has been widely published in blogs like ‘My Swiss Story’ and on websites such as ‘Women’s Web’. She has also contributed to short story anthologies. More recently, Nayana followed her conviction in diversity and representation and recently completed an M.Ed in Reading and Writing where she specialised in diversity and representation in children’s literature and identity texts. Nayana brings her pedagogic interests and knowledge to Young Voices where young people are encouraged to create their own identity texts through spoken, written and visual media. Nayana really enjoys curating Young Voices each month and is always on the lookout for potential contributors. You can follow Nayana’s progress by following her on her Instagram handle: @reshamtriestoreadandwrite.
Aradhna Sethi
Co-founder and chief editor
Author of ‘The Entrepreneur’s Wife – A Survival Guide’ (for adults) and ‘The Swan that laid Golden Eggs’ (for children), former Chief Editor of Swiss News and consulting editor for Swiss publications, Aradhna came to Switzerland in 2001. Read about her views and more on https://aradhnasethi.wordpress.com/.
Keerthana Nagarajan
Co-founder and content editor
Keerthana is a freelance journalist based in Switzerland. She has worked as a journalist in India with Network 18, the Netherlands with Radio Netherlands Worldwide and in Switzerland exploring opportunities to tell news stories through print, television, radio, and online media.
Manasa Mukka
Co-founder and IT lead
Manasa is a UX consultant and believes in simplifying complexity through technology and design. She is the designer behind Namaste Switzerland and has worked with companies including Cognizant, NTT Data and IIT Madras. She is currently honing her design skills with a master’s course in human-computer interaction design.
Shinta Simon
Co-founder and social media in-charge
Shinta runs www.carameltintedlife.com, a food blog serving up recipes for a global audience. She has worked for 8 years as a Marketing Strategy Consultant with companies like IBM and Genpact. She is passionate about digital content and engaging online audiences with effective content marketing strategies.
Aldrina Carvalho
Web and IT team
Aldrina lives in Zurich with her husband and two children. She grew up in Mumbai and is an IT engineer by profession. Continuing to discover her passions, she currently dabbles in baking, knitting, stand-up paddling, photography, and children’s literature. She enjoys Swiss outdoors. You can email her here.
Dhruti Trivedi
Social media lead - Instagram
Writer and portraitist by passion, a travel enthusiast, and explorer at heart – make Dhruti from being a fun mom. In addition, she takes the same passion and enthusiasm into her professional role as a committed social media manager, who never loses the spirit of positivity.
Kirti Sharma
Web and IT team
Kirti Sharma is a homemaker and a proud mother of two. A former Lecturer in Computer Sciences N.I.T KKR, she is passionate about learning different dance styles and enjoys performing on stage, painting and Hindi poetry writing. A Laughter Yoga leader in the Baden, she also volunteers in community activities.
