She was born blind. Her grandmother, who raised her, is deaf and mute. There was no one in her world who could describe it to her - so she ran through it instead. Rakshitha Raju, born in Chikmagalur, Karnataka, lost both her parents young and was raised by… #Bharat100 #ThoughtOfTheDay #India2047

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, one of the largest gifts by… #Bharat100 #IndianDiaspora #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, built by Cochin… #Bharat100 #GreenHydrogen #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, discovered that his newly married wife used rags instead of… #Bharat100 #ThoughtOfTheDay #India2047

His team built a gene therapy from scratch for one baby. It took six months. Dr. Kiran Musunuru, of Indian origin, co-led the team at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia that designed and delivered the world's first personalized CRISPR gene-editing therapy… #Bharat100 #IndianDiaspora #India2047

He's been blind since birth. He's also saved lives from drowning, 13 times over. Bhullu Sahni, from Dumduma village in Bihar's Samastipur district, has been visually impaired since birth. #Bharat100 #ThoughtOfTheDay #India2047

This week in India's growth story: 35 stories covering history, sectors and mindset. 1. Ten Indians. One 246-year-old American academy. Same year. 2. 2026: An Indian-origin engineer is about to run Adobe for the second time in a row. 3. #Bharat100 #WeeklyRecap #India2047

He left IIT Bombay for a physics PhD in America. In 2026, he was elected to a society founded in 1780. Nitin Samarth was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' 2026 class, in its Mathematical and Physical Sciences section. He holds the Verne M. #Bharat100 #IndianDiaspora #India2047

He slept on a railway platform to afford weekend engineering classes. He now runs a district as an IAS officer. M. Sivaguru Prabakaran grew up in a farming family in Tamil Nadu, where his father struggled with unemployment and the family lived in poverty. #Bharat100 #ThoughtOfTheDay #India2047

She took up the sitar at age 8. By 2026, she'd been nominated for a Grammy 13 times. Anoushka Shankar earned her 12th and 13th Grammy nominations at the 2026 ceremony, for Best Global Music Album ('Chapter III: We Return to Light') and Best Global Music Perfo… #Bharat100 #IndianDiaspora #India2047

He sold his own auto-rickshaw to afford a trip to the national championships. This year, he won India its first medal at the Commonwealth Games. Jhandu Kumar was born on January 1, 1997, in Harnaut, Nalanda district, Bihar and was affected by polio from birth. #Bharat100 #ThoughtOfTheDay #India2047

He wanted to know why India's small-town councils keep underperforming. The answer won him one of political science's most prestigious awards. Shikhar Singh, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Duke University, received the 2026 Heinz I. #Bharat100 #IndianDiaspora #India2047

In 1995, she coined a term that changed how psychology understands prejudice. In 2026, the US named her one of its Great Immigrants for it. Mahzarin Banaji, born in Secunderabad, was named to Carnegie Corporation's 2026 Great Immigrants, Great Americans list. #Bharat100 #IndianDiaspora #India2047

She lost her father to cancer at one, dropped out after Class 10 and was married at 19. Now she earns ₹50 lakh a year - and trains 15,000 farmers for free. Rubi Pareek grew up in Rajasthan, raised by her widowed mother alongside five siblings after losing he… #Bharat100 #ThoughtOfTheDay #India2047

He already holds India's highest literary honor. In April 2026, America gave him one of its own. The Guggenheim Foundation named Amitav Ghosh to its 2026 Fellowship class on April 14, in general nonfiction - one of 223 Fellows named across 55 disciplines. #Bharat100 #IndianDiaspora #India2047

Married at 16 to escape poverty. Today she's the state's first woman joint director. Savita Pradhan grew up in a tribal family in Mandai village, Madhya Pradesh, gathering tendu leaves and mahua flowers to survive. #Bharat100 #ThoughtOfTheDay #India2047

She was born without arms. At 17, she became the best archer on Earth. Sheetal Devi, from a small village in Jammu and Kashmir, was born with phocomelia and had never seen a bow before age 15. #Bharat100 #ThoughtOfTheDay #India2047

Ten Indians. One 246-year-old American academy. Same year. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences - founded in 1780, whose past members include Einstein, Darwin and 250+ Nobel laureates - named its 2026 class of new members on April 22. #Bharat100 #IndianDiaspora #India2047

This week in India's growth story: 35 stories covering history, sectors and mindset. 1. He grew up the son of a cobbler in rural Maharashtra. Today, his company has over 4,500 employees. 2. Sixteen Fortune 500 companies are run by Indian-origin CEOs. #Bharat100 #WeeklyRecap #India2047