She gave a US engineering school $100 million. They renamed it after her family. In October 2015, Indian-American business leader Chandrika Tandon and her husband Ranjan Tandon donated $100 million to NYU's School of Engineering… #Bharat100 #IndianDiaspora #India2047

His wife left him. Villagers thought he was mentally ill. He kept building anyway - and changed how millions of women live. Arunachalam Muruganantham, a school dropout from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu… #Bharat100 #ThoughtOfTheDay #India2047

India just put a passenger boat on the Ganga that runs on hydrogen. Built entirely in India, for India's own waterways. India's first indigenous hydrogen fuel cell-powered passenger vessel entered commercial service on the Ganga at Varanasi… #Bharat100 #GreenHydrogen #India2047

India just rolled out its first privately assembled military aircraft. Built at a Tata-Airbus facility in Gujarat. Tata Advanced Systems reportedly rolled out the first India-assembled C-295 military transport aircraft from its Vadodara facility in May 2026… #Bharat100 #MakeInIndia #India2047

She fuses Indian ragas with jazz. In 2026, that earned her a Grammy nomination. Charu Suri, born in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, earned a 2026 Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for her album 'Shayan'… #Bharat100 #IndianDiaspora #India2047

India just switched on a reactor that makes more fuel than it burns. It's called a breeder reactor - and it's entirely homegrown. On April 6, 2026, India's Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu, attained first criticality… #Bharat100 #NuclearEnergy #India2047

His village had no electricity until he was seven. He now leads Australia's national academy of science. Chennupati Jagadish grew up in the farming village of Vallurupalem, Andhra Pradesh… #Bharat100 #ThoughtOfTheDay #India2047

She lost her sight completely right before her board exams. She just became the first blind woman to argue a case before India's Supreme Court. Anchal Bhateja was born with low vision due to retinopathy of prematurity… #Bharat100 #ThoughtOfTheDay #India2047

His father is from Kerala. His mother is from Ukraine. In July 2026, he launched to the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Anil Menon launched on his first spaceflight aboard Soyuz MS-29 on July 14, 2026, from Baikonur Cosmodrome… #Bharat100 #IndianDiaspora #India2047

India just built a chip that runs 300 times faster than the silicon in most electronics. It's smaller than a fingernail. DRDO's Solid State Physics Laboratory has indigenously developed Gallium Nitride semiconductor chips for next-generation radar… #Bharat100 #Semiconductors #India2047

His father drove an autorickshaw. His mother worked the fields. At 21, he became one of India's youngest IAS officers. Ansar Shaikh was born in Shelgaon village, Jalna district, in Maharashtra's Marathwada region… #Bharat100 #ThoughtOfTheDay #India2047

A US chip-equipment giant just committed 10,000 crore rupees to India. For a kind of silicon manufacturing nobody's done here before. On September 16, 2026, Lam Research announced it will build India's first silicon component manufacturing facility… #Bharat100 #Semiconductors #India2047

His father emigrated from Punjab to study at this college in 1946. In 2026, his son paid off its entire graduating class's loans. At NC State's Wilson College of Textiles commencement on May 8, 2026… #Bharat100 #IndianDiaspora #India2047

Maruti Suzuki just started making its own hydrogen. From solar power the factory used to simply waste. On September 24, 2026, Maruti Suzuki commissioned its first green hydrogen electrolyser plant, at its Manesar factory in Haryana… #Bharat100 #GreenHydrogen #India2047

India just finished a railway built for one purpose only: cargo. No passengers, no mixed traffic - just freight, moving faster than ever before. On September 8, 2026, Prime Minister Modi dedicated the final sections of the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor… #Bharat100 #IndianRailways #India2047

A medical mistake took her sight as an infant. She spent her life giving 200 other blind people their independence back. Tiffany Brar was born in Chennai and lost her sight as an infant due to oxygen toxicity (Terry Syndrome) - a medical accident… #Bharat100 #ThoughtOfTheDay #India2047

Most Indian farmers can't afford their own drone. So the government's plan skips ownership entirely - and shares it instead. India's '1 Panchayat - 1 Drone Udyami' national mission, launched in 2026… #Bharat100 #MakeInIndia #India2047

Indian Railways just commissioned its most advanced anti-collision system yet. It applies the brakes automatically - before a human even reacts. On September 23, 2026, Indian Railways commissioned KAVACH 4.0 for the first time… #Bharat100 #IndianRailways #India2047

Her friends pooled ₹40,000 so she could travel to Delhi. She came back Kerala's first tribal woman IAS officer. Sreedhanya Suresh was born in Wayanad, Kerala, in 1991, to the Kurichiya tribal community… #Bharat100 #ThoughtOfTheDay #India2047

Her research has been cited 27,000 times by peers worldwide. In 2026, one of science's oldest honors finally caught up. Tejal Desai, Dean of Engineering at Brown University, was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science… #Bharat100 #IndianDiaspora #India2047