Most people at 21 are still deciding what to do with their degree. Tanuj Samaddar, at the same age, was already a two-time President’s Awardee, a published author, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, the CEO of a media house, and a Commonwealth Scholar. He was also running Action for a Resilient Tomorrow,…
New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Education, working with the Ministry of External Affairs, opened the two-day BRICS Bharat Innovates (BBI) Exposition at Bharat Mandapam on September 11, putting 37 Indian deep-tech startups before CEOs, investors, and government delegations gathered ahead of the 18th BRICS Summit on September 12-13. The ventures were drawn from an…
Sudha Murty famously travels to project sites herself, often unannounced. She has described spending roughly 20 days a month on the road in the years she actively ran Infosys’ field operations. She visited schools, hospitals, flood relief sites, and destitute homes to verify that the money the foundation disbursed actually produced the intended outcome. This…
New Delhi and the 10-nation bloc chart a food-security roadmap through 2030, but a modest track record raises questions about whether the pledges will reach the smallholders they name. NEW DELHI— India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations concluded the 9th ASEAN-India Ministerial Meeting on Agriculture and Forestry on September 9, setting the stage…
He was 19 years old when he decided the problem he most wanted to spend his life on was this one: in India, a student’s address determines her destiny more than her intelligence. Dr Ketan Deshpande, an MBA from SCMHRD, Pune, and later a PhD researcher in Corporate Social Responsibility at Symbiosis International University, founded…
India’s CSR sector is not short of large numbers. Thousands of crores move annually through compliance-driven corporate spending, much of it legitimate, some of it difficult to trace back to any measurable human outcome. HCL Foundation, the CSR arm of HCL Tech, chaired by Roshni Nadar Malhotra, has spent a decade building a counterargument to…
More than 89,000 sewer and septic tank workers have been formally validated under India’s principal sanitation-worker welfare scheme since 2023, and official profiling data indicate that over 90 per cent of those identified belong to Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, or Other Backwards Class communities — underscoring sanitation work’s long-documented association with caste in India. Against…
Whenever historians look back at India’s fight against COVID-19 through the lens of its vaccination drive, two words will likely stand out: rate and price. By June 2021, the Serum Institute of India, under CEO Adar Poonawalla, with the ability to export 280 million+ doses of its vaccine, Covishield, to 70 countries in that single…
In 1978, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw began a business called Biocon out of her Bangalore garage with 10,000 in capital, and a product no one in India was making. It was for industrial applications derived from enzyme-based bio fermentation. She was rejected for a loan when a bank manager asked whether it would help her run a…
₹763 crore over 5 years. That is the number next to Rohini Nilekani’s name on the EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2025. She is also known as India’s Most Generous Woman, a title earned by donating ₹204 crore in a single financial year. The number is large enough to stop a conversation. However, Nilekani has…
