(June 25, 2023) Just before India got its independence, a young man of 26 embarked on a journey from Kolkata to England. Little did he know that the borders that he was transcending would one day leave an indelible mark on the world of statistics. Calyampudi...
(June 20, 2023) Growing up in a small farming community in Raipur, life was tough for Dr Sanjaya Rajaram and his family. Having seen stark poverty in central India’s rural heartlands, Rajaram had seen the ugliness of stark poverty. It led him to dedicate his...
(November 18, 2023) In 1984, when India was still in the shackles of socialism, Prithvi Raj Singh ‘Biki’ Oberoi took over the mantle from his father, founding Chairman of the Oberoi Group, Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh Oberoi. The debonair man had a marked taste...
(March 10, 2023)The Padma Awards list for 2023 features one of the finest Indian-origin mathematician in the field today – Srinivasa S.R. Varadhan. He is widely known for his contributions in the field of probability theory and for creating a unified theory...
(March 8, 2023) “Looking through the camera, focusing on a subject, and isolating it from its surroundings. These were the things that attracted me. The viewfinder of the camera attracted me to photography.” This quote by Homai Vyarawalla is the testimony...
