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Achievers Series
May 22, 2012
ICSE TOPPER: Comparison makes you feel inferior
Shalaka Kulkarni from Thane, who topped the Class 10 ICSE exam stresses on the importance of time management and insists that self-study is the best way to prepare.
May 21, 2012
'I observed Dadu's dharma to heal the suffering'
Meet Soros Fellow Victor Roy, whose grandfather's dedication to healing the poor and ailing for over six decades has set him on the same path.
Competition can breed jealousy: All-India JEE topper
While Arpit Aggarwal never attended a social gathering for two years, he says it is important to manage your time and take short breaks while preparing for a competitive exam.
May 18, 2012
Ushering the children of mechanics and labourers into IIT
Free coaching centre in Bihar Super 30, which helps economically backward youngsters crack the IIT-JEE, saw 27 of their 30 students clear the competitive exam.
From advising Bobby Jindal to law, been there done that
In the fifth part of the series on Indian Americans who won the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships, profiles Rina Thomas, daughter of Indian immigrant doctors settled in New Orleans.
May 17, 2012
I experienced intense racism, bullying: An achiever speaks
In the fourth part of the series on Indian Americans who won Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships, profiles Vineet Singal, who is doing his to make this world a healthier place.
May 16, 2012
'I am a proud Sikh, proud American'
In the third part of the series on Indian Americans who won Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships, tells the story of Jasmeet Kaur Ahuja, a Sikh American with roots in Punjab.
May 15, 2012
Waking up everybody, from Palestine to America
In the second part of the series on Indian-Americans who won the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, profiles Indra Sen, who through his own programme is waking up Americans to the plight of Palestinian children in refugee camps.
May 14, 2012
This blind man fought for 3 yrs to become an IAS officer
Professor-turned-IAS aspirant Ajit Kumar fought a 3-year battle to claim his rightful place in the Civil Services.
May 11, 2012
Actors who inspire: Take a cue from their careers!
Some of the greatest actors and films of our times were initially written off by critics, directors and audiences as flops. But just when one thought their fate had been sealed, they came back with a bang...
May 10, 2012
The IAS topper who failed Class VI
UPSC all-India second topper Rukmani Riar did not believe in coaching and cracked the exam in her first attempt. She tells us how she did it.
May 09, 2012
Meet Arjun Agrawal, the 8-year-old Mozart
A student of Julia Reina of the Reina School of Piano Somerville, New Jersey, Arjun stunned audiences with his performance at Carnegie Hall after winning the first prize at The Little Mozart's Crescendo.
May 08, 2012
A young scientist's organic remedy to harmful fertilisers
A curious, inventive school student is among the 1200 international students whose science project has made the cut for an international science competition, the grand prize for which is a trip to the Nobel Prize Ceremony in Stockholm.
May 02, 2012
Shiv Khera on how YOU can be successful too!
# This back bencher was forced into taking Science. As a result he flunked and repeated the class. But now he feeds his mind with positive thoughts.
April 30, 2012
This 12-year-old delivers lectures at Harvard and Yale
Blake Kernen has already co-authored a book with her father and delivers guest lectures at the Harvard Business School and Yale School of Management.
April 27, 2012
Inspiring cricket comebacks: Yuvraj, Dravid and more!
A great leveller, games bring out the best in a human beings, and cricket has plenty of stories of grit and commitment. Chronicles of a quartet.
April 24, 2012
This Dalit lawyer wants to educate and empower women
For someone born with both social and physiological disabilities, this lawyer-turned-social activist has come out with flying colours
April 23, 2012
The inspiring story of a polio victim's quest for mobility
Meenu Bhambani, a polio victim who was poor in studies cracked the Rajasthan Public Service exam, got an IFP fellowship for a US university and holds a prominent job in the corporate world.
April 20, 2012
He ran away from home to become a successful doctor
Dr Surya Bali ran away from home, did odds and ends. But he never waivered in his goal to become a doctor and ended up becoming much more than a physician.
April 19, 2012
The Indian hockey player who was rejected 13 times
Yuvraj Walmiki was rejected by junior hockey camp 13 times. But nothing could dent his resolve to go on playing the game. His next goal is playing at the London Olympics 2012.
April 17, 2012
From stage fright to rejection, this VC has seen it all
Dr Anand Samuel, Pro Vice Chancellor, VIT University shares how he overcame stage fear, job dissatisfaction and more
April 16, 2012
IITian rejected by IIM A: What he learned
However bright you are, rejection always hurts. But if one can understand the causes, then it could also be a great lesson, says the Secretary, Sports and Youth Affairs, Govt of Rajasthan, India
April 13, 2012
14-hour power cuts didn't dim his IAS dream
This son of a rickshaw puller, who graduated in Mathematics chose entirely new subjects in Civils because he could not afford coaching. Here is his story
March 29, 2012
'Entrepreneurs think in terms of changing the world'
Nidhi Saxena, founder of Karmic Lifesciences, a contract research organisation that was born in the bleak days of mid-2008, reveals what made her venture a success in four years.
March 28, 2012
The amazing success story of INSEAD dean Dr Dipak Jain
Dr Dipak Jain, dean of INSEAD, France and Singapore writes his name as Dipak and not Deepak because the first time he wrote his name in English he was not sure how to spell it.
March 21, 2012
Guess what? America's top teen scientist is INDIAN!
Indian American Nitin Tumma, 17, won the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search, the nation's oldest and most prestigious high school research competition.
March 15, 2012
Are YOU single? Here's a new lonely hearts club
A unique singles club for people over 27 years has been making heads turn in Mumbai. explores the dynamics behind running this unique enterprise.
March 14, 2012
Why her jewellery's worth watching out for
The World Gold Council recently listed Suhani Pittie as one of the top ten inventive and ingenious jewellery designers in the world. Pittie who showed at the recently concluded Lakme Fashion Week talks about how she made it.
February 09, 2012
The Arctic Challenge winner who wants to save the planet
Prashant Singh, Winner of the Arctic Challenge tells about the expedition.
The Indian who wants to revolutionise web telephony
In May 2007, Yusuf Motiwala, an Indian software engineer started TringMe, a global communication service company to offer browser-based connectivity to users. Today, it has over 15 million subscribers from 80 countries. He tells us how he did it.
February 07, 2012
Indian team wins Arctic challenge
A five-member Indian team was that won competitions organised by London-based company Royal and Sun Alliance insurance and the World Wildlife Fund visited the Arctic to witness the effects of climate change.
January 17, 2012
DON'T MISS: India's first Ironman is a woman!
Anuradha Vaidyanathan is India first Ironman athlete. The multi-tasking 30-year-old PhD holder and entrepreneur tells us about the challenges she's had to face and how she made it.
December 15, 2011
AMAZING tales of nine real-life Indian heroes
Each year for 20 years now Godfrey Phillips has been giving out awards for various acts of bravery. These are the winners of the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh-Goa zone.
December 13, 2011
From a small town in Bihar to being a Rhodes scholar
Amit Kumar, who won the prestigious Rhodes scholarship for 2012, says he wants to develop a revolutionary technology that will help replace the combustible fuel source in automobiles with fuel cells. He shares his journey with us.
December 09, 2011
Must read: She bagged a Rs 65 lakh job offer from Facebook
Radhika Mittal, a final year student of computer science and engineering at IIT-Kharagpur recently bagged a Rs 65 lakh job offer from Facebook. Read on to find out how she managed to get this dream job.
A unique story of the boy who keeps a day job AND helps people
Dipesh Tank runs an NGO called Youth for People that runs to the rescue of citizens in need of help. Everyone in the NGO keeps a day job and yet manages to reach out to people across the country. He tells us how he does it and the challenges he faces.
December 08, 2011
'Being a CEO does not make you successful'
Tiger Ramesh, CEO of CSS Corp, talks about his life as a serial entrepreneur, how he progressed in his long career, his success mantras, dos and don'ts for start-ups, why he sold out of his wildlife resorts venture and why he chose to head CSS instead of joining one of the top three Indian IT behemoths at senior management level.
December 05, 2011
Super 30 founder Anand Kumar in list of world's top 20 teachers
Anand Kumar, founder of Super 30, a free coaching centre in Bihar which helps economically backward students crack the IIT-JEE, has been selected by UK based magazine Monocle among the list of 20 pioneering teachers of the world.
December 02, 2011
The success story of an Indian who won the Rhodes scholarship
Mohit Agrawal had previously turned down the final Rhodes interview previously and vied for the Mitchell scholarship, the Irish version of Rhodes because he thought studying in Ireland would be more exciting than being in the United Kingdom on a Rhodes Scholarship. Here's his journey.
December 01, 2011
This Rhodes scholar worked as a grocery store checker
Meet Indian-American Aysha Bagchi who is perhaps the most traveled of the 32 Rhodes Scholars for 2012. She shares her journey here.
November 30, 2011
The journey of an Indian Rhodes Scholar from Mexico to Haiti
This year's Rhodes scholar Anand Habib volunteered for a halfway house for immigrants who had risked their lives to come to America through the Mexican border during his high school days. He shares his journey here.
November 08, 2011
These IIM grads take on the mafia to seek justice
Two IIM graduates Anjali Mullati and H Jaishankar have been fighting for a cause apart from running their own business venture. Anjali speaks about their gutsy journey.
November 04, 2011
'As a country we are not very start-up friendly'
Meet IITians Aneesh Reddy and Krishna Mehra whose company Capillary Technologies has grown from a garage start-up to a 150-member strong company with operations across India and in the UK, Middle East and South Africa.
November 03, 2011
She skied 550 km to fund an orphanage!
Meet Deeya Suzannah Bajaj, a 17-year-old from Delhi who participated in the Trans- Greenland Ski Expedition this year to become the youngest Indian to have achieved the feat.
November 02, 2011
This startup doesn't want to make big profits
The story of an amazing individual who has turned conventional start-up logic on its head. Meet Santosh Parulekar of Pipal Tree ventures, whose objective is to create social good instead of maximizing profit.
October 31, 2011
'The matchmaking business is worth Rs 5,000 crores'
Anupam Mittal started India's first matrimonial website at a time when most Indians didn't know what the Internet was. Today as the company turned 15, Mittal looks back and talks about his success story.
October 28, 2011
Zoya Akhtar: Do what you love, money will come
The director of Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara shares her take on life and career.
She mortgaged her house to jump off a cliff
Meet Archana Sardana, India's first woman BASE jumper and what it cost her to get there
October 21, 2011
Start-up story: 'We want to be the best network for singles'
Serial start-up entrepreneur Siddharth Mangharam talks about his success mantras and start-up dos and don'ts.
October 20, 2011
Start-up story: 'We want to be the best network for singles'Serial start-up entrepreneur Siddharth Mangharam talks about his success mantras and start-up dos and don'ts.
October 14, 2011
'Small town people have the proverbial fire in their belly'
Meet Stuti Jalan who hails from an industrial town in Orissa and runs a successful public relations company today.
October 06, 2011
Anjum Chopra: 'I have no mentors!'
She is smart, she is stylish! Meet Anjum Chopra, the most elegant batswoman India has ever produced.
October 03, 2011
Here's how you can walk, shop and save energy!
Meet Shubhi Gupta and Prateek Goel, two passionate students who proved their mettle in a college competition when pitted against 25 finalists from around the world!
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