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tanay manJrekar
Tanay Manjrekar, who hails
from Pune, hit the news after he
became the first Indian to on No-
vember 9 to travel in the Hyper-
loop Pod at the test facility in Las
Vegas. Pune-based Tanay Man-
jrekar is the first Indian to ride
a HyperLoop, a technology that
could revolutionize high-speed
travel in the future. “Working
on hyperloop – let alone being
one of the first to ride it – is truly
a dream come true,” said Tanay
Manjrekar, Power Electronics
Specialist at Virgin Hyperloop.
“It is my hope that India sees the
tremendous opportunity ahead
of it, to once again be an inno-
vation leader and leapfrog the
rest of the world, and continues
its progress in the Mumbai-Pune
hyperloop project.”
PrIyanCa radhakrIshna
Priyanca Radhakrishna be-
came New Zealand’s first-ev-
er Indian-origin minister after
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
inducted her as Minister for Di-
versity, Inclusion and Ethnic
Communities. The Ernakulam
native has created history by be-
coming the first-ever Kiwi – Indi-
an minister in the Jacinda Ardern
ministry. 41-year-old Priyanca is
a second time MP and has been
given three key portfolios which
include community and voluntary
sector, diversity, inclusion and
ethnic communities, youth and
is also an associate minister for
social development and employ-
ment. Priyanca is the daughter
of Paravoor Madavanaparam-
bu Raman Radhakrishnan and
Usha. Even though she has her
roots in Paravoor, most of her
relatives are based in Chennai -
where she was born.
dr. ankIt bharat
Dr. Ankit Bharat successfully
performed the 1st lung transplant
in the World on a COVID-19 pa-
tient. He is the chief of thoracic
surgery and surgical director of
Northwestern’s lung transplant
program. The Meerut-born Dr.
Bharat is also the principal in- he proved that not all heroes
vestigator of the study published
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gLobaL IndIans of 2020 over the company this year at a
time when it is facing antitrust
in peer-reviewed Science Trans- in 2015 and then International investigations and is mired in
lational Medicine journal of the Development Secretary by The- controversies over privacy and
data practices. Born in Chennai,
Science Magazine. Dr Bharat resa May before her promotion Pichai studied engineering at the
said organ transplantation may to her current position. She was Indian Institute of Technology
become more frequent for vic- a member of the British Parlia-
tims of the most severe forms of ment’s Foreign Affairs Com- in Kharagpur. He then moved
Covid-19. “We provided explicit mittee that recently released a to Stanford University and later
evidence that Covid-19 can cause damning report that warned that attended the Wharton School at
the University of Pennsylvania.
permanent damage to lungs in the UK was falling behind in the Pichai has been leading Google
some patients for whom lung race to engage with India. Pa- for more than four years.
transplantation is the only hope tel will be pivotal in shaping the
for survival,” Dr Bharat said in UK’s post-Brexit relationship
an interview. with India. gItanJaLI rao
Gitanjali Rao is a 15-year-old
PrItI PateL sundar PIChaI teenager who has been chosen
as TIME’s first-ever Kid of the
Priti Patel made history earli- The tech icon, who is an Year for her work using ‘tech-
er this year when she became the IIT-Kharagpur alumnus, made nology to tackle issues ranging
first woman from the minority in a splash at the end of 2019 when from contaminated drinking
Britain to be appointed Home Google Co-Founders Larry Page
Secretary. First elected to the and Sergei Brin gave control of water to opioid addiction and
British Parliament in 2010, she the company they had co-found- cyberbullying’.
has risen dramatically through ed more than two decades ago Colorado, US, and was select-
The genius teenager is from
the Conservative ranks, being and handed over the reins of par- ed from 5,000 nominees, she
appointed Minister of State for ent company Alphabet to Pichai. was interviewed by Academy
Employment by David Cameron Forty-seven-year-old Pichai took
award-winning Hollywood actor
Angelina Jolie for TIME. Rao’s
latest discovery is an app called,
Kindly, which detects cyberbully-
ing at an early stage and has also
developed another application
called Tethys, a device that can
measure the content of lead con-
sonu sood vIkas khanna tamination in water with the help
The actor’s humanitarian From his home in New of carbon nanotubes.
work during this pandemic York, celebrity chef Vikas sonIa syngaL
consumed yards of newsprint Khanna launched a food Sonia Syngal, an Indian
COVID-19,
during
drive
and TV space. Along with his feeding millions in his native -American businesswoman, was
childhood friend and restau-
rateur Neeti Goel, the actor India. appointed in March as the CEO
launched a campaign named The Michelin-star chef of retail giant GAP Inc. With this
‘Ghar Bhejo’ which arranged was honored with the pres- appointment she became the
highest-ranked Indian-American
for food, transport, medical tigious 2020 Asia Game female CEO of a Fortune 500
and other assistance for over
7.5 lakh stranded migrant Changer Award for feeding company after Indra Nooyi who
millions across India through
workers. Be it providing meals a massive food distribution stepped down as PepsiCo head
to migrants, gifting e-rick- drive that he coordinated. in 2018. After her appointment,
shaws to the needy, funding Khanna was the only Indi- Syngal said, “It’s an honor to
build on this company’s rich her-
liver transplant operation for an among the six honourees itage and lead our nearly 130,000
six-year-old and helping a girl named by the leading organi- employees in transforming our
sation. Since April, Khanna’s
with knee replacement sur- #FeedIndia initiative has dis- business and operations to suc-
gery are among his numerous
acts of philanthropy. He has tributed 35 million meals, in- cessfully compete in the future,”
topped UK’s 2020 celebrity list cluding cooked and dry ration, as quoted by the Indian Express.
for charitable efforts during as well as 500,000 slippers, 3.5 Earlier, Syngal had headed
the old navy unit of the compa-
the pandemic. Through his ef- million sanitary pads, two mil- ny since 2016. She is responsible
forts for helping out the needy, lion masks and other essen- for taking the sales of Old Navy
tial supplies across hundreds from $7 Billion to $8 Billion in
wear capes.
of cities throughout India.
just three years.
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