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Dr Aparna Hegde: The maternal health champion among Fortune’s 50 greatest global leaders of 2020

by Chandu | Jul 26, 2021

(July 26, 2021; 6.30 pm) As a medical resident in a Mumbai hospital, Dr Aparna Hegde had been witness to many pervasive systemic problems that often led to disastrous consequences. One incident remains fresh in her mind. It was a long night in the Emergency ward when...

How MIT scientist Shriya Srinivasan’s ventilator tech is saving lives

by Chandu | Jul 13, 2021

When Shriya Srinivasan, a postdoctoral medical researcher at Harvard Medical School, came up with a ventilator multiplexer amidst a raging pandemic, she hoped to solve a million problems with one medical device. At the peak of the pandemic, a shortage of...

Danish Siddiqui: Remembering the Indian photojournalist who feared no conflict

by Chandu | Jul 17, 2021

(July 17, 2021; 4.15 pm) He painted emotions with his photographs, they were evocative, heartrending, stark, and more human than any reportage. For Pulitzer-winner Danish Siddiqui shooting images that put a human face to conflict – portraying the other side of...

Meet Rahul Garg, the man behind India’s first hinterland unicorn

by Chandu | Jul 7, 2021

In a country where large dollops of venture capital money chase glitzy consumer tech startups from Ola to Cred, Moglix is an exception. Essentially an industrial goods marketplace, the Ratan Tata and Tiger Global-backed Moglix became India’s first hinterland...