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Nimai Agarwal
Nimai Agarwal is a young author and scholar who has been homeschooled along with taking classes at the Stanford University Online High School. He has been writing and editing his ...view moreNimai Agarwal is a young author and scholar who has been homeschooled along with taking classes at the Stanford University Online High School. He has been writing and editing his novel, The Lotus Saga, since he was 12 years old. Since 2012 he has been working with an online international teen magazine, KidSpirit Online. Nimai has published several articles with KidSpirit and The Huffington Post.
Nimai has attended both the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio and the Kenyon Review Young Writer’s Workshop. His writings have received several awards including prestigious Scholastic Writing and Arts awards and first place in the Maryland Letters About Literature Award in 2010 for his letter, Who Am I?. His essay A Fresh Look was published in KidSpirit and republished on The Huffington Post where it received four hundred comments.
In 2015, at the Parliament of World Religions held in Salt Lake City, Utah, Nimai was one of only seven kids who spoke on a panel although there were hundreds of panels. Nimai brought his openness to the spiritual paths of others as well as his own commitment to the Vaishnava branch of Hinduism. He currently lives in Maryland with his parents, where he studies, paints, and writes. He will be attending University of Pennsylvania in the fall of 2017.
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