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Here is how Ratan Tata narrated his journey to becoming one of India’s finest corporate achievers   Left to himself, Ratan Tata would have been working as an architect in the warm climate of Los Angeles. From being a reluctant apprentice, not knowing what to do on the shopfloor of Telco at...

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In the list of top heart surgeons in the world, Dr Panda’s name comes up fairly high whenever high-risk surgeries are mentioned. Coming from a village in Orissa, Dr Panda topped at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, but dejected by favouratism decided to go abroad. Good for...

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Adman Prahlad Kakkar works hard at hiding his serious, emotional and intense side, which probably makes for his success This is our most unusual interview so far. Prahlad Kakkar is a regular on the society pages of publications and is quoted on every subject under the sun – from films to food,...

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Dr RH Patil narrates the innovations and battles behind the setting up of the National Stock Exchange Ask anyone who was the moving force behind setting up the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and few will mention Dr RH Patil’s name. Yet, it is one of the largest in the world and valued at...

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What makes Amitabh Bachchan’s spectacular life and career even more astonishing is that his success has been anything but smooth As careers go, his has been among the most spectacular and a true roller coaster. Amitabh Bachchan has been a megastar in two mediums, first in films and later, a...

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Villoo Morawala Patell's youthful looks and exuberant personality hides formidable learning in complex and cutting-edge fields such as genomics, proteomics, sequencing, and metabolics. From a five-person academic start-up working from a university laboratory in 1998, Avestha Gengraine...

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As a founder of the TeNet group, Dr Ashok Jhunjhunwala has pioneered technologies for the uplift of rural India Dr Ashok Jhunjhunwala is a rare academic. He works closely with industry and is driven by a mission to take the benefits of science and technology to rural India. His revolutionary...

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ML: You were born and brought up at Allahabad. What were your early musical influences? SM: I spent the first 22 years of my life in Allahabad. I come from an academic family; my parents taught English Literature at Allahabad University, but there was a strong passion for the Arts,...

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Dr Keki Gharda’s Gharda Chemicals has repeatedly flummoxed multinationals by its technological virtuosity Once upon a time, he used to bite pens. Now he fidgets with a knife in a cramped office lined up to the ceiling with books that range from Game Theory to the history of the Roman Empire to...

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His life story almost sounds like an absurd daydream, not merely because he rose from a daily-wage labourer to a Member of Parliament. But because he did it by mastering Information Technology and turning entrepreneur at a time when the country was barely aware of integrated circuits and...

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Dr Alka Deshpande has developed an ‘Indian’ method of dealing with AIDS that has been recognised internationally From her secondary school education in a class that was a side-room of a temple at Peth-Wadgaon in Kolhapur, Maharashtra to becoming a WHO-recognised expert in dealing with...

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Shamrao Chougule’s story is one of passion and a rare derring-do that saw him make India produce quality wine For someone who was cutting grass and looking after cattle as a child to be able to produce India’s first champagne is an astounding feat. Shamrao Chougule not only did that but he...

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Ajit Balakrishnan launched one of India’s first dotcom companies and his entrepreneurial drive has inspired many younger achievers Serial entrepreneurs are common in the US but there are very few in India. If ever a list is made of this rare species, Ajit Balakrishnan will qualify eminently....

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