It’s funny—I’ve spent these past three years trying to ignore the legacy that my brother, Varun Sivaram, left behind. I’ve gone to great lengths to make my own path and pioneer my own route to success, carefully avoiding all the activities he partook in (which, I assure you, did not leave many options).

But in light of his incredible accomplishment of becoming a Rhodes Scholar, the spotlight is most deservedly on him. (For more standard stories about his achievement, you can navigate to the Saratoga Falcon’s coverage
of it, the Mercury News
story, and