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Rujuta Diwekar is a Mumbai based celebrity nutritionist and winner of the prestigious ‘Nutrition Award’, from the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology. In 2012, she was voted one of the ‘50 most powerful people in India’ by People Magazine. In a career spanning more than15 years, Rujuta has worked with clients from all walks of life, from students to celebrities. She is the author of 5 best-selling books on nutrition and exercise including, ‘Don’t Lose your Mind, Lose Your Weight’. The book...
Shubhra Chadda is the co-founder at Chumbak Design, one of India’s leading design houses, bringing together a curated mix of clothing accessories and home décor. In 2009 Shubhra Chadda co-founded Chumbak with her husband, Vivek Prabhakar. The company started out as an idea to create design focused Indiathemed souvenirs. The couple had to sell their house to start the company, it was a gamble, but one that has paid off. Within the first six months, the company broke even. Prabhakar quit his...
Kunal Shah is an entrepreneur and founder of FreeCharge, an e-commerce website providing the online facility to recharge any prepaid mobile phone, postpaid mobile, DTH and Data Cards in India. FreeCharge was started in 2010 by Kunal Shah and Sandeep Tandon. In 2011 FreeCharge was named one of the most promising technology startups from India by Plugged In. In April 2015 Snapdeal acquired FreeCharge for an estimated US$400 million. Kunal Shah graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Wilson...
Ajayj Bijli is an entrepreneur who made a fortune for himself building PVR Cinemas into India’s largest chain of multiplexes. PVR Cinemas began as a joint venture between Priya Exhibitors Private Limited and Village Roadshow Limited and originated as Priya Cinema in South Delhi, bought by Ajay Bijli’s father in 1978. In 1988 Bijli took over the running of the cinema hall, which was revamped in 1990 and its success led to the founding of PVR Cinemas. PVR now has an...
Ashish Hemrajani is the CEO and co-Founder of Bigtree Entertainment Pvt.Ltd, which operates BookMyShow, India’s largest online entertainment ticketing platform. BookMyShow offers tickets for movies, plays, concerts, sports games and live events. Under Hemrajani’s leadership Bigtree Entertainment Pvt. Ltd survived the dotcom bust in 2001, managing to do so by selling the Vista ticketing software and providing back-end ticketing services to cinema theatres. In 2007, seeing the growth in multiplexes and the increased debit and credit card penetration in the country,...
Deepinder Goyal is the Founder and CEO of Zomato. He came up with the idea of an online restaurant information service after seeing the demand for paper menu cards at Bain, where he worked as a management consultant. In 2008 Goyal left Bain to start Zomato out of his apartment and has since overseen the strategy and product development. Zomato currently operates in 23 countries including India, Australia, the UK and US, providing information and reviews on restaurants, including images of...
Dr. Andy Marino is a biographer, producer and author of a political memoir of the Indian Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi. Hailed as the main nonnative known to have liberated access to Mr Modi, Andy's account draws together a time of direct research and around six selective gatherings with the man, in the time running up to his 2014 avalanche decision battle. Andy's receptive way of dealing with Modi enabled him to construct a mind boggling picture and top to bottom character,...
Sudha Murty is the Chairman of the Infosys Foundation in India. She has a graduate degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. She began her profession as an development engineer with TELCO (now Tata Motors) and has likewise taught software engineering at Bangalore University. Sudha Murty is a productive writer in Kannada and English. She is a writer for English and Kannada dailies with 24 books and 156 titles – including books, non-fiction, travelogs, specialised books, and...
Depicted as the 'Paulo Coelho of the East' by Business World and a 'People's author like Jeffrey Archer' by The Telegraph, Amish's novel blend of crackling narrating, religious imagery and significant theories have made him an overnight distributing wonder. Discharged in March 2010, Amish's Shiva Trilogy (of which two books, The Immortals of Meluha and The Secret of the Nagas have been distributed) has more than 350,000 copies in print. Amish is an alum of IIM-Calcutta and labored for a long...
William Dalrymple is the bestselling author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and the Hemingway and Kapucinski Prize-winning Return of a King. His most recent book, The Anarchy, was short listed for the Duke of Wellington medal, the Tata Book of the Year and the Historical Writers Association Award, was a Finalist for the Cundill Prize for History and won the 2020 Arthur Ross Medal from the US Council on Foreign Relations. Dalrymple...
P V Sindhu is a professional badminton player and currently world no. 11 in the BWF World Ranking. She rose to a career-high world ranking of no. 2 in April 2017. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic silver medal. She is one of two Indian badminton players to ever win an Olympic medal. Pusarla Venkata Sindhu came to international attention when she broke into the tope 20 of the BWF World Ranking in 2012...
Mahesh Bhupathi is a retired professional tennis player. In 1997, he became the first Indian to win a Grand Slam tournament. During his playing career, Bhupathi was one of the most dominant doubles players in the sport’s history. He won four men’s doubles and eight mixed doubles Grand Slam titles. Known for his enormous serve, Roger Federer calls Bhupathi one of the best players of all time. Bhupati started playing tennis at a young age, encouraged by his father, who also...
Yuvraj Singh is an international cricketer, three-time world cup winner, cancer crusader, author and philanthropist. Singh has been a member of the Indian cricket team in One Day Internationals (ODIs) since October 2000. He is an all-rounder who bats left handed in the middle order and bowls slow left arm orthodox. Singh is the son of former Indian fast bowler and Punjabi actor Yograj Singh. Singh played his first Test match in October 2003 and was the vice-captain of the Indian...
Vishwanathan Anand is a chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion. Anand was the 15th undisputed World Champion, reigning from 2007-13. He was also FIDE World Champion from 2000-02. As an Indian chess player, Anand blazed a trail with a number of firsts, including in 1984 becoming the youngest Indian to earn the title of IM, aged 14. At 16 he became the youngest ever Indian Champion. In 1987, he became the first Indian to win the World Junior Championship and...
Prakash Padukone is a former badminton player. He was ranked World No 1 in 1980, the same year he became the first Indian to win the All England Open Badminton Championships. He is one of the Co-founders of Olympic Gold Quest, a foundation dedicated to the promotion of Olympic sports in India. After his retirement from competitive sport in 1991, Padukone served as the Chairman of the Badminton Association of India for a short time. He also served as the coach...
Former Indian Cricketer, Sourav Ganguly, is regarded as one of India's most successful captains of modern times. Ganguly will be best remembered for his elegant cricketing style and vast contribution to cricket in India in a career spanning 15 years. He is currently the President of the Cricket Association of Bengal and President of the Editorial Board with Wisden India. During his playing career, Ganguly established himself as one of the world’s leading batsmen, particularly in the one-day format. Ganguly is...