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CHANGE: A BIOGRAPHY

LIFE STORIES THAT MAP THE GREAT INDIAN ARC

19 Dec, 2014 - 25 Dec, 2014
Vol 07 | Issue 01

STORIES IN THIS ISSUE

CHANGE: A BIOGRAPHY

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S Prasannarajan • PR Ramesh • Ullekh NP • Madhavankutty Pillai • V Shoba • Lhendup G Bhutia • Chinki Sinha • Gunjeet Sra • Rajni George • Divya Unny

CHANGE: A BIOGRAPHY

PR Ramesh

Life stories that map the great Indian arc

EDITOR’S NOTE

S Prasannarajan

Change is more than an abstraction animated. It is a collection of synonyms for the next point in the grand ellipse of hope

THE STATE BANKER OF INDIA

V Shoba

It began as a slip of a girl in a blue sari. In a male bastion, the queen of Indian banking who took the helm of SBI at a time of financial gloom wears her crown well

SHE WHO BROKE TWO GLASS CEILINGS

Madhavankutty Pillai

A Dalit entrepreneur who earned Rs 2 per day once upon a time and survived a suicide attempt is recognised as someone who saved one of Mumbai’s illustrious companies

THE FASHIONABLE OUTSIDER

Gunjeet Sra

It has been a magical journey for the boy from a village in UP who reached Milan to be crowned as an original—a stylist with a dash of socialism

THE DAY OF THE UNDERDOG

Chinki Sinha

A man who once worked as an unskilled labourer in Saudi Arabia and became a voice of Dalit assertion in Punjab is now a member of the Union Council of Ministers

REACHING FOR THE STARS

Lhendup G Bhutia

A political reporter from Patna today runs India’s top TV network

THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN

V Shoba

Zen and the art of being the emperor of a jewellery business in India. The man from Thrissur in Kerala has set the gold standard for transparency in the industry

THE PRINCE OF PULP

Rajni George

The writer as one-stop entertainment industry and a motivational icon for neo-literate India

AN ACT OF COURAGE

Divya Unny

The girl from Bangalore, and the daughter of a sporting icon, deviated from the father’s path to become a Bollywood original

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