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Ideas, initiatives and projects that are making a difference
Green warrior
Medha Priya, green architect
An architect who works as a Green Building Analyst, Medha Priya aims to make resource-efficient buildings which have a net-zero impact on the environment. Now she is working at the Bureau of Energy Efficiency Programme for Net Zero Energy Buildings.
Serving up Rajasthani food in Vancouver – and empowering South Asian women
Nidhi Tomer Chaudhary, founder, Tatta Chulha
In her second trimester, Nidhi Tomer Chaudhary craved the dal baati choorma and moongdal pakoda from back home. She started Tatta Chulha in Vancouver, where she lives, hiring women from the South Asian community to empower them through financial freedom.
Working on breast cancer awareness
Dheepthi Mohanraj, reseracher
A fellow of the American Junior Academy of Science, the Presidential Scholar 2022 has worked on projects including a method of assessing minimal residual disease in breast cancer patients and detecting mitosis for the prediction of breast cancer prognosis.
Indian origin doctor gets prestigious Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship
Premikha, doctor
Twenty-six-year-old Premikha is one of three recipients of the Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship, given to outstanding Singaporeans, for her role in securing access to vaccines and therapeutics during Covid-19. She will head to Johns Hopkins University this year.
Kashmiri Tailor’s son wins 70km road race
Adil Altaf, cyclist
A son of a tailor, 18-year-old Adil Altaf created a history of sorts when he bagged Jammu and Kashmir’s first gold medal at the Khelo India Youth Games in Panchkula. He blazed to glory in the boy’s 70km road race.
Champion of the visually impaired students
Rishika Kartik, activist
The Presidential Scholar 2022 awardee, who founded Vision of the Artist's Soul, advocates accessibility for and inclusion of the visually-impaired youth through art - giving them methods of self expression to foster a sense of independence.
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Child prodigy to college dropout to entrepreneur
Praveen Kumar Gorakavi co-founder, The Phi Factory & Microbite
At 13, Praveen devised a calendar for 40,000 years and rendered it in Braille. He also invented a low-cost artificial leg and mechanical brailler. The child prodigy dropped out of a PhD programme to pursue his entrepreneurial dreams at The Phi Factory.
Meet the barber turned billionaire
Ramesh Babu, barber
A barber from Bengaluru after saving enough money bought his first car in 1994. Soon he started to give it out on rent and it helped him to grow his business. Now he is one of the 140 billionaires in India who owns more than 400 luxurious cars.
Breaking stereotypes
Dr Sangita Bandyopadhyay, the first woman director of Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), oversees all 5 centres of ISI located in Kolkata, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and Tezpur. In 2022 she was conferred with Padma Shri for her contributions.
Business tycoon’s meteoric growth
Jay Chaudhary, CEO and founder, Zscaler
CEO and founder of Zscaler, Jay Chaudhary hails from a small village in Himachal Pradesh. He founded the cyber security firm in 2007. In 2021 he secured a place among top 10 wealthiest people in India in IIFL Wealth Hurun India Rich list 2021.
Encashing on the edtech popularity
Kunal Malik and Maneesh Dhooper, founder, PlanetSpark
Started in 2016 by XLRI graduates, the platform pivoted to online classes in October 2019. PlanetSpark has over 2,000 tutors and 22,000 students now. In FY22, it gained $18 million ARR and hopes to reach $50 million by FY23.
From Youtube to Unicorn club
Alakh Pandey’s meteoric growth
Alakh Pandey’s Edtech company PhysicsWallah is the latest Indian startup to enter the unicorn club and is the first edtech company to hit this milestone this year.
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Democratising startup investing
Krishna Maggo, founder, Sateeq
The 16-year-old's platform Sateeq, enables anyone keen on riding the startup wave to be angel investors with investments as small as ₹5000. Within a month of launching operations, he onboarded 10 companies that raised atleast Pre-Series A fundraising roun
SUGAR cosmetics raised $50 million in series D funding round
Vineeta Singh, founder, SUGAR cosmetics
The Indian beauty brand has raised $50 million in its series D funding round, led by L Catterton. It brings the company one step closer to its plan of going public.
Taking it easy
Harshita Lalchand and Tushika Lalchand, founders, All is Well
Founded by a mother-daughter duo in Visakhapatnam, the startup aims to erase the social stigma associated with mental health and raise awareness, emphasising that it's okay to go through a tough phase and talk about it and seek help.
KSUM-backed biotech startup secures investment from US company
Zaara Biotech, startup
Biotechnology startup Zaara Biotech, under the Kerala Startup Mission's flagship Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre scheme, has got an undisclosed amount of investment from US-based Transcend International to set up the startup's algal seaw
Helping country breathe easy
Aditya Debey, founder CarbonX
After campaigning against single-use plastic, the 18-year-old launched CarbonX- Direct Air Capture. The company produces devices that remove Co2 from air at minimal running cost and a very low initial investment with zero fossil fuel energy requirement.
Giving artisans a fresh lease of life
Ayan Bhattacharya, founder, Artysan
At age 17, Ayan started Artysan to support artisans and preserve the textile heritage of India. Setting up a business in Class 12 was a mammoth task but he was keen to start an e-commerce site for selling handloom garments.
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A musical prodigy
Nishaad Shah, Indian-American musician
New York-based child artist, Nishaad Shah is a budding artist. He was featured as one of the singers in the album A Colorful World, which bagged the honor in the Best Children’s Album category this year.
World’s youngest writer
Abhijita Gupta, writer
Ghaziabad native Abhijita Gupta has become the world's youngest writer. She has been recognised by the International Book of Records. She has already written three books - Happiness All Around, We will Surely Sustain and To begin with…The little things.
Kohn gallery represents Indian artist
Siji Krishnan, artist
Kohn Gallery has announced the representation of Indian artist Siji Krishnan. Krishnan, who lives and works in Kerala, India, will hold her inaugural U.S. solo exhibition with Kohn Gallery in the fall of 2023.
Promoting Bharatnatyam in UAE
Prakriti Suresh, Bharatnatyam dancer
The 13-year-old based in Sharjah is taking Bharatnatyam and Carnatic music to the world. Originally from Trichy, she won the title at the Markazhi Festival held in UAE.
Making waves globally
Kunal Rajan, sound designer
Kunal Rajan is the only Indian sound designer who has been working in mainstream Hollywood as well as Indian movies, while living in Los Angeles. Apart from movies, he has also bagged a Streamy Award for Best Sound Design for the web series, Fear Clinic.
Rahman named ambassador of Indo-UK culture platform
Music maestro A R Rahman has been named the ambassador of the British Council's 'India-UK Together Season of Culture', which aims to boost collaboration among emerging artists.
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The Contrarian – Founding Fuel
Disha Nawani and Vivek Kumar write: After Covid, schools must be rebuilt prioritising students’ needs – The Indian Express
Indian scientists are digging into fish ears to mine climate data – Scroll.in
View: The world is looking at India to show the way in EdTech – The Economic Times
New India needs free and quality higher education – The Hindu
What does the 2020 Galwan clash say about India and China?: Hindustan Times
The Contrarian – Founding Fuel
(This article first appeared in Founding Fuel on June 18, 2022)- Sridhar Vembu built Zoho by questioning the conventional wisdom. For the longest time, no one took much notice. But now people are curious about what makes him—and Zoho—tick..
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Disha Nawani and Vivek Kumar write: After Covid, schools must be rebuilt prioritising students’ needs – The Indian Express
(This article first appeared in The Indian Express on June 21, 2022)
- A deep learning crisis has set in during the Covid pandemic. The National Achievement Survey (NAS) has captured a fall of nine percentage points between 2017 and 2021 in the performance of students in subjects ranging from maths to social science (IE, May 25). Since the absence of a formal, structured learning environment is being identified as the primary cause of this crisis, the learning loss seems to be more applicable to those children who do not have educational support at home and are constrained in other ways as well...
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Indian scientists are digging into fish ears to mine climate data – Scroll.in
(This article first appeared in Scroll.in on June 14, 2022)
- High-resolution data from fish ear bones (otoliths), such as sea surface temperature over a period of time, can strengthen climate models...
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View: The world is looking at India to show the way in EdTech – The Economic Times
(This article first appeared in The Economic Times on June 14, 2022)
- On a Tuesday afternoon in 2006, after a weekly meeting of the World Bank board of directors in Washington, a few fellow executive directors from Africa and Latin America walked back with me to my office to discuss an important matter -- whether I could help them get a few good teachers from India to teach mathematics and sciences in their countries...
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New India needs free and quality higher education – The Hindu
(This article first appeared in The Hindu on June 15, 2022)
- At a time when the demand for quality education and research in leading universities in India and advanced nations is on the rise, the staggering tuition fees demanded by universities of repute, besides deterring the meritorious from pursuing their degrees from world-class universities...
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What does the 2020 Galwan clash say about India and China?: Hindustan Times
(This article first appeared in the Hindustan Times on June 15, 2022)
- Before June 15, 2020, it was a standard operating procedure of the Chinese Army to first transgress across the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh as evident in 2013 Depsang intrusions in Daulet Beg Oldi and then engage the Indian side in a never-ending diplomatic-military dialogue to resolve the boundary aggravation. In the meantime, the PLA would rapidly build the military infrastructure to feed the transgression and the land would be either be declared a buffer zone or be lost forever to the Indian side...
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