Category: Featured Biographies

Warning: Do not read any further if you are intimidated by ‘Change’. For those who haven’t listened to him yet, I suggest taking the risk. But there’s one disadvantage. You’ll never get enough out of …

In a well ‘civilized’ society like ours, with the first Lady President being elected in 2007, recent focus on female foeticide issues has brought us out of our comfortable cocoons. Here’s a glimpse of a …

The South African Double-amputee, Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius has been selected in the South African squad for London Olympics 2012. Yesterday, an elated Pistorius said, “It really feels great to have been selected to represent …

Born: 31 October 1711 Died: 20 February 1778 Laura Maria Caterina Bassi was an Italian child prodigy, scientist, mathematician and the first ever woman to be honored with an official teaching position at a university …

An IIT Kanpur alumni mathematician Mahan Mitra, best known as Mahan Maharaj and Swami Vidyanathananda, has received India’s highest science and technology award ‘Shanthi Swarup Bhatnagar Award for Mathematics’ in 2011. On completion of school …

“The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission to change the face of education by providing free world-class tutorials to people of all ages and countries.” Salman Amin Khan is an American educator who …

Mahadev Satyanarayanan, who has initiated and intensified the research in mobile and pervasive computing, is an experimental computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. Popular as Satya, he is a highly respected figure in computing world …

Non-profit organization FEED was founded by a widely acclaimed model and activist Lauren Bush in 2007 along with Ellen Gustafson. FEED designs, manufactures, and sells reusable organic bags and the profit that comes is used …

Known As: Doctor, Professor, Corneal Specialist Achievement: The World’s youngest Doctor (Guinness Book of World Records) Born: 29 July 1977, Hollis Hills, New York State, USA Nationality: American Tamil-American ophthalmologist, educator, as well as researcher …

Sumaya Kazi is the Founder and CEO of Sumazi, a social network that intelligently connects people by offering them opportunities to explore people of varied interests and skills. Still a beta version, Sumazi aspires to …

Company: LearnVest Age: 27 Founder: Alexa Von Tobel Year Founded: 2009 Harvard grad Alexa Von Tobel came up with the idea of LearnVest, an online personal-finance resource for women, when she herself stumbled upon the …

Company: Instagram Kevin Systrom: 25 years Mike Krieger 27 Two Stanford graduate Kevin Systrom, who had already served on Google’s Gmail as well as corporate development, and Mike Krieger, a Symbolic Systems student with specialization …