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Pooja Bhatt is an Indian film actress, voice actress, model and film maker. She is the eldest child of Indian film director, Mahesh Bhatt. She has a brother, Rahul Bhatt and half-sisters Shaheen and Alia Bhatt. Her cousins are Hitarth Bhat and Emraan Hashmi.Bhatt made her acting debut at age 17, in 1989 with Daddy, a TV film directed by her father Mahesh Bhatt. Bhatt's biggest solo hit and her big screen debut came with a musical hit, Dil Hai Ke...
Cdr Abhilash Tomy is the first Indian and the 79th person (1st Indian and 2nd Asian) in the world to perform a successful solo and nonstop circumnavigation of the globe under sail (wind power only) . Compare this achievement with 4,000 people who have scaled the summit of Mt. Everest – while Everest is still the holy grail of climbing, its has almost become a guided tour for most of its climbers. Sherpas actually set lines to the summit, before the...
Gaur Gopal Das is an Electrical Engineer, having studied at the College Of Engineering, Pune. After a brief stint with Hewlett Packard, Gaur decided to upgrade his career to be a life coach. Ever since then he has been speaking at various prestigious academic institutions and corporate firms in India and abroad for over 2 decades and has even spoken at the United Nations and thrice at British parliament. He has also spoken at many charity events to raise funds for social...
Nisha Millet is a swimmer from Bangalore, India. An Arjuna Award winner, Millet was the only woman in the 2000 Sydney Olympics swim team for India. Millet has won more than 600 gold medals at State, National and International Meets. She has represented India at the world swimming championships (1998 and 2004) & Asian Games(1998) and was the first Indian to qualify for swimming at the Olympics in the 200 meter freestyle (Sydney 2000). Millet has won the highest number...
Laxmi Agarwal, once known as the acid attack survivor, is now just Laxmi – a mother, a symbol of courage, hope and love for life. A motivational speaker and messenger for millions of social voices, she has inspired people and emphasised on the strength of inner beauty. Laxmi Agarwal was only 15 when she was attacked by her stalker with acid in 2005. He thought he will kill her dreams. Little did he know that she will bounce back and will...
Voted as one of the top 12 women achievers in the Global Entertainment industry by the Hollywood Reporter and among the top 50 Indians changing India by India Today. Guneet Monga has been a force to reckon with and the youngest game-changing producer in Indian cinema. Guneet started her career in production with international projects like Murder Unveiled, Valley of Flowers and Partition. She has since been associated with a number of path-breaking films in India, Say Salaam India being her...
Shankkar Aiyar is a prominent India-based political economy analyst, columnist and author. His path-breaking book "Accidental India: A History of the Nation’s Passage through Crisis and Change" has fetched him national acclaim as a public intellectual. Accidental India, an in-depth study of the political and economic history of modern India, examines the country’s transformation through the arresting angles of seven game changers, one for each decade since 1947. The book argues and establishes that the turning points in the country’s history...
Dr Susmita Mohanty is a spaceship designer and entrepreneur extraordinaire. She is the only entrepreneur in the world who has founded space companies on 3 different continents. She is the co-founder and CEO of EARTH2ORBIT, India’s first private space start-up that played a pivotal role in opening up the US launch market for India. She has co-founded and led two other companies, MOONFRONT, a boutique space consulting firm in San Francisco [2001-2007] and LIQUIFER, a trans-disciplinary space architecture firm in...
Elif Shafak is an award-winning novelist and the most widely read female writer in Turkey.
She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published 15 books, 10 of which are novels, including the bestselling The Bastard of Istanbul, The Forty Rules of Love and her most recent, Three Daughters of Eve. Her books have been published in 48 languages.
Shafak is a TED Global speaker, a member of Weforum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy in Davos and...
Anuj Gosalia’s first taste of the startup life was when he joined the founding team of What’s On India, led by media veteran Atul Phadnis. Working with a lean and versatile team to bring new business, service existing clients and optimize the website's algorithm all at once, was his introduction to the grueling nature of startups. What’s On India went on to be funded by Sequoia and was later sold for many million dollars. Anuj Gosalia then moved on to co-found a platform...
Ashwin Sanghi is one of India’s five best-selling English fiction authors. His three novels, The Rozabal Line, Chanakya's Chant, and The Krishna Key, are all based on historical, theological and mythological themes. He is one of India's most popular conspiracy fiction writers, and is an author of the new era of re-telling Indian history or mythology in a contemporary context. Forbes India has included Sanghi in their ‘2012 Forbes India Celebrity 100’. He has also been hailed by critics as the...
Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy CBE, better known as N. R. Narayana Murthy, is an Indian industrialist and software engineer. He is the Founder of Infosys Limited, a global software consulting company headquartered in Bangalore, India. He founded Infosys in 1981, served as the CEO during 1981-2002, and as the Chairman and Chief Mentor during 1981-2011. Under his leadership, Infosys was listed on NASDAQ in 1999. He is currently the Chairman Emeritus of Infosys. Mr. Murthy articulated, designed and implemented the Global Delivery...
R Gopalakrishnan (Gopal to his friends) is a non-executive director of Tata Group Parent, Tata Sons, and several Tata companies. He also serves as an independent director of listed companies, Akzo Nobel India and Castrol India, as well as a Sri Lankan listed company, Hemas. He retired from executive positions in Tata in 2011. Gopal has been a professional manager from 1967---31 years in Unilever and 16 years in Tata. Over the last twenty five years, he has served in Jeddah...
Alan Rosling CBE is an accomplished global business pioneer and businessman with specific knowledge on India. Rosling helped to establish Kiran Energy, one of India's driving solar power organizations. Kiran secured private value backing in 2010 and as of now has more than 80 MW of advantages working. Alan Rosling spent 5 years as Executive Director of Tata Sons Limited, where he was in charge of the Group's internationalization program (2003-08). In this period the Group's abroad business developed from $2.4 billion...
Ireena Vittal is an independent director on the boards of some of India's best known organizations. Following 24 years in business, she takes a shot at issues identified with India’s urban plan and agri-markets. Prior to this, she was a Partner at McKinsey and Co. Ireena Vittal is an expert in farming and urban improvement in India and developing markets. She has co-authored investigations involving agribusiness and urbanization. She has been an Additional Independent Director of AXIS Bank Limited since November...
Punita Lal is a high level, proficient manager with more than 25 years of involvement in system, advertising and authority, spreading over numerous topographies and societies. Lal's last position was as CEO for NourishCo, a joint venture between the Tatas and PepsiCo in the region. Her professional career began in the promoting business with Lintas, before moving to J Walter Thompson (JWT). While with JWT, she built up Pepsi's effective “Are you ready for the magic” marketing campaign. Punita Lal also worked...