She arrived in the US at 21 with little money, working as a stadium food server to pay for school. Forbes just named her one of the world's top innovators at 53. The sixth annual list, produced by Forbes with Mika Brzezinski's Know Your Value initiative… #Bharat100 #GlobalBharat #IndianDiaspora

A software billionaire just gave his old engineering college Rs 75 crore. For the second time. Anant Yardi, a 1968 graduate of IIT Delhi who moved to the US and founded Yardi Systems, pledged a fresh Rs 75 crore gift in March 2026… #Bharat100 #IndianDiaspora #India2047

He spent three years on one investigation - from Silicon Valley to China to the US border. It just won a Pulitzer. The prize, announced May 4, 2026, honoured an investigation into state-of-the-art mass surveillance tools… #Bharat100 #GlobalBharat #IndianDiaspora

A Fortune 500 CEO just funded a scholarship named after her mother. For women from economically weaker backgrounds, at her old engineering college. Revathi Advaithi, CEO of Flex and a BITS Pilani alumna and her husband Jeevan Mulgund endowed a $1 million… #Bharat100 #IndianDiaspora #India2047

He's spent more than four decades teaching at Harvard Medical School. Carnegie just named him one of America's great immigrants. Chopra, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and former faculty dean for continuing medical education… #Bharat100 #GlobalBharat #IndianDiaspora

A US couple just gave their old engineering college a record $4 million. The largest individual gift the school has ever received. Chand P. #Bharat100 #IndianDiaspora #India2047

He went from an IIT engineering degree to running one of the world's biggest cybersecurity companies. Carnegie just named him one of America's great immigrants. Arora, chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks since 2018… #Bharat100 #GlobalBharat #IndianDiaspora

A US doctor just gave her entire life's savings to the hospital that trained her. Roughly Rs 20 crore, to a government hospital in Andhra Pradesh. Dr. Uma Devi Gavini, an immunologist who graduated from Guntur Medical College in 1965 before moving to the US… #Bharat100 #IndianDiaspora #India2047

A comic-style investigation into a scam that traps Indians by phone just won a Pulitzer Prize. Mumbai-based illustrator Anand RK and Delhi-based journalist Suparna Sharma, working with Bloomberg's Natalie Obiko Pearson, won for 'trAPPed'… #Bharat100 #GlobalBharat #IndianDiaspora

A 23-year Navy doctor took military medic training. And rebuilt it for Indian villages. Dr. Thakor G. #Bharat100 #IndianDiaspora #India2047

He led the US government's global development agency. Now he leads a 110-year-old philanthropy. In 2026, TIME named him to its Philanthropy 100. Shah is President of the Rockefeller Foundation - its 13th and the first Indian-American to lead… #Bharat100 #GlobalBharat #IndianDiaspora

A US cardiologist still runs free medical camps in the Jharkhand village he grew up in. He's held over 150 of them. Dr. Avinash Gupta, born in Karum village in Ranchi, Jharkhand, arrived in the US in 1986 and has practiced cardiology in Lakewood… #Bharat100 #IndianDiaspora #India2047

He holds 65 US patents and won nine R&D 100 Awards. In 2026, he was named Researcher of the Year. A Corporate Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Paranthaman earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemistry from Madurai Kamaraj University and his Ph.D. #Bharat100 #GlobalBharat #IndianDiaspora

She gave up a pediatrics career in the US. To build a hospital for one of India's most overlooked regions. Dr. Lata Desai trained in medicine in Gujarat, moved to the US in 1972 to specialize in pediatrics… #Bharat100 #IndianDiaspora #India2047

He found the genetic switch behind the most common prostate cancer mutation. It just won him medicine's Harrington Prize. A second-generation Indian-American and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at the University of Michigan… #Bharat100 #GlobalBharat #IndianDiaspora