Vicky Roy: Street dreams
At age 11, Vicky Roy ran away from home and ended up a rag-picker at a railway station in Delhi. Rescued by the Salaam Baalak Trust, Vicky got his hands on a camera and found his calling. At INK201...
John Hardy: Dreaming green
From bamboo swimming pools to homegrown lunches, every aspect of John Hardy's Green School strives to be a model of sustainability. But being green isn't easy, and it doesn't always work on the fir...
Arunachalam Muruganantham: The first man to wear a sanitary napkin
In under 12 minutes, listen to the fascinating journey of a workshop helper - from being rejected by the same women whose lives he wanted to change - to now gearing up to create jobs for a million ...
Ruchi Sanghvi: From Facebook to facing the unknown
Ruchi Sanghvi, Facebook's first female engineer, decided early on to follow her intuition rather than let fear or convention dictate her decisions. From joining Facebook, to building Facebook Newsf...
Amish Tripathi: The secret of the immortals
From finance to fiction, it took Amish Tripathi more than just a leap of faith. His first bestselling book, The Immortals of Meluha, that was stuck in his laptop for a long time, was published onl...
Anand Agarawala: String theory
Best known for Bumptop, a viral demo at TED2007 that was eventually acquired by Google, Anand Agarwala demos String, the latest 3D user interface technology, at INK2011. It allows the user to mani...
Vikram Bhaskaran: An inside joke for a billion (+) people
He is one big enthu cutlet but you will never catch him wearing a safari suit, mother promise! What started out as an exercise in nostalgia for Vikram Bhaskaran, has turned into a repository of ric...