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

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
Her nonprofit trains rural women to make and sell their own sanitary pads. Not as charity - as a paid job. Megha Desai is President of The Desai Foundation, a diaspora-founded nonprofit running the Asani Sanitary Napkin Program across 8 Indian states… #Bharat100 #IndianDiaspora #India2047
A couple gave their US university $20 million. It became a college named for them - built entirely around AI. The gift, announced September 9, 2026, established the Anuradha and Vikas Sinha College of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics… #Bharat100 #GlobalBharat #IndianDiaspora
His uncle built India's hybrid seed industry. Then he sold it all to fund rural development. Dr. Suri Sehgal, a Harvard-trained crop scientist, built Proagro Group and Hytech Seed India into major hybrid seed companies before selling them in 1998… #Bharat100 #IndianDiaspora #India2047
A sarod maestro and his two sons recorded an album with the Dalai Lama. It won a Grammy. The winning album, 'Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama,' paired the Dalai Lama's spoken reflections with the Khan family's sarod… #Bharat100 #GlobalBharat #IndianDiaspora
He operated on a patient 10,000 km away. The round trip took under 150 milliseconds. On May 2, 2026, he remotely performed a live robotic gastrojejunostomy on a patient in Indore while operating from Perth, Australia - roughly 10,000 km away… #Bharat100 #GlobalBharat #IndianDiaspora
His food initiative fed 30 million people during COVID. In 2026, TIME named him one of the 100 most influential people alive. Long before the recognition, Khanna - an 8-Michelin-star chef - redirected his career toward large-scale food relief… #Bharat100 #GlobalBharat #IndianDiaspora
She leads a global fight against violence toward women. In 2026, she became only the second South Asian in the National Women's Hall of Fame. The ceremony, held at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY… #Bharat100 #GlobalBharat #IndianDiaspora
She leads Teach For India's US arm. In 2026, a new award named her its first-ever winner. The award, created by the India Philanthropy Alliance in memory of philanthropist Deepak Raj… #Bharat100 #GlobalBharat #IndianDiaspora
An IndiGo co-founder is building a 500-bed hospital inside his old engineering college. He's already put in Rs 400 crore of his own money. Rakesh Gangwal, US-based co-founder of IndiGo Airlines and an IIT Kanpur alumnus… #Bharat100 #IndianDiaspora #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… #Bharat100 #IndianDiaspora #India2047
He grew up in a small Gujarat village. In 2026, a US award named after the father of the Green Revolution went to him. The award, given by the US Council for Agricultural Science and Technology and named for Nobel Peace Prize laureate Norman Borlaug… #Bharat100 #GlobalBharat #IndianDiaspora
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
At 11 years old, she just broke a chess record that stood for over two decades. Playing top board for England at the 46th Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, she secured her third and final WGM norm… #Bharat100 #GlobalBharat #IndianDiaspora
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
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
He's scored more ODI centuries than anyone in history. On September 27, he broke his own record again. Batting in the series opener at Thiruvananthapuram, Kohli made 139 not out off 88 balls, with his century arriving off just 74 balls… #Bharat100 #GlobalBharat #IndianDiaspora
He built an AI company from scratch. Jeff Bezos backed it. Forbes now values him at $2.1 billion. Born in Chennai, he holds a Bachelor's and Master's from IIT Madras and a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley… #Bharat100 #GlobalBharat #IndianDiaspora
An Indian fintech founder now runs the app 3 billion people use to talk to each other. On June 22, 2026, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Shah would succeed Will Cathcart, who had led WhatsApp since 2019… #Bharat100 #GlobalBharat #IndianDiaspora