Chetan Bhagat

Chetan Bhagat

Chetan Bhagat: Chetan Bhagat is a famous Indian author, columnist, and speaker. Born on 22^nd April 1974, Bhagat is the author of five bestselling novels, Five Point Someone (2004), One Night @ the Call Center (2005), The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008), 2 States (2009) &Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition(2011). All five books have remained bestsellers since their release and two have even inspired Bollywood films (including the hit film 3 Idiots).

In 2008, The New York Times mentioned Chetan Bhagat to be "the biggest selling English language novelist in India's history".
An alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Bhagat is seen more as a youth icon than as an author. Time magazine named him as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.

Chetan was born, brought-up and attained his schooling for Delhi. After attending the Army Public School, New Delhi,he studied Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi followed by MBA from the Indian Institute of Management.

Bhagat met his wife, Anusha at IIM Ahmedabad. They married in 1999. Later, they moved to Hong Kong and worked there for 11 years before coming back to India. Now based in Mumbai, Chetan is focusing on his writing career. Bhagat and Anusha are the parents of twin sons, Shyam and Ishaan. Chetan’s bestseller creation, 2 States: The Story of My Marriageis inspired from his real-life love story.

Chetan deserves to be the youth icon of India as he is the most-read author of the country with entire focus on youth instincts. Novels are the best friend of youth. So, the person who writes the bestsellers is automatically the one they admire as an icon. J

Pranav Mistry

Pranav Mistry

Pranav Mistry: Pranav Mistry, the inventor of revolutionary Six Sense technology is a well-known name amongst the youth of India. In fact, every engineering graduate of India looks up to him as an icon. The magical Techno-Freak from India has gained a worldwide admiration with his astounding works in the fields of technology. Frankly speaking, Pranav's thinking starts a thousand kilometers ahead of the point where the normal human imagination ends. His latest gadget and a bouquet of numerous exciting and surprising inventions have taken him to sky heights.

Born on 17^thDecember 1982 in Gujarat, India, Pranav is presently pursuing his Ph. D from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (World’s best engineering institute). Before joining MIT, Pranav worked as a UX Researcher with Microsoft. Pranav holds a Master's degree in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT and Master of Design from Industrial Design Center, IIT Bombay. He has completed Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science and Engineering. Mistry is best known for his work on SixthSense. Among some of his other work, Pranav has invented Mouseless – an invisible computer mouse; SPARSH – a novel way to copy-paste data between digital devices; Quickies – intelligent sticky notes that can be searched, located and can send reminders and messages; Blinkbot- a gaze and blink controlled robot; a pen that can draw in 3D; and a public map that can act as Google of physical world.

Pranav's research on SixthSense was awarded the 2009 Invention Award by Popular Science. He was also named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35. In 2010, he was named to Creativity Magazine's Creativity 50. Mistry holds a position among the top ten best inventors alive in the world.

Technology is a boon if mastered upon and a bane if enslaved by. By mastering the technology, Pranav has proved his worth and hence deserves to be the Youth icon in the real sense.J

Arvind Kejriwal

Arvind Kejriwal

Arvind Kejriwal: Arvind was born on 16^th June, 1968, in district Hisar of Haryana. He completed his mechanical engineering studies in the year 1989 from IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal. After graduation he joined Tata Steel and worked there till 1992, when he cracked civil services examination. He got selected for Indian Revenues Services and joined as a Joint Commissioner at Income tax office in New Delhi. But he took leave from the office in the year 2000 and started a NGO named Parivartan. In February, 2006 he formally resigned from the job and started working actively in various social causes.

Parivartan is one of his prominent moves to work towards a corruption free nation. It is run by few volunteers who had indeed helped several people in overcoming their problems while standing hard against corruption. Parivartan has done extensive work in the fields of public distribution system and education. It is still active in bringing out the maximum benefits from RTI.

Arvind Kejriwal had worked extensively for implementation of Central Right to Information Act. He had followed the right to information act, Delhi. In the year 2006, he was awarded with Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership. He invested all the prize money in his NGO for various social causes.

Another movement which has gained him fame and brought in lime light is the recent struggle for implementation of Lok Pal Bill in its true form. Being an active member of drafting committee and a strong follower of Anna Hazare, he has carved his own niche.

During his life time, he had met Mother Teresa and was highly impressed by her selfless service attitude. During that period he had actively served people in Kaalighat in West Bengal and followed the way shown by Mother Teresa.

His main motto is to create a corruption free society. He received overwhelming response on the national as well as global front. He sees corruption as a symptom and not as the main problem. He also integrates it with prevailing poverty in the country. Lack of basic amenities and shortage of resources give rise to corruption.

To tackle this problem he believes in granting more governing power in hands of people. He emphasizes on decentralization of the power and distributing it to the smaller factors of governance. Empowering panchayats and gram sabhas is his next plan of action.

Arvind Kejriwal is a striking example of emerging youth power of the nation. By playing an active role in core committee of Anna Hazare and leading masses from front, he has emerged as a youth icon. He has recently been appointed as the founder chairperson of the newly floated anti-corruption political party: Aam Aadmi Party.

He lives in National Capital region near Delhi with his wife Sunita and two kids. He has made a team of capable and enthusiastic persons from various walks of life and together they are working for the betterment of the country's future. Arvind Kejriwal has a clear vision and an effective plan to execute it. Being a youth icon he realizes his responsibility and has a long way to go. Hope youth supports him and we achieve a corruption free India.

Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar: Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (born 24 April 1973) is an Indian cricketer widely considered to be the greatest batsman of all time, after Don Bradman. In 2002, just 12 years into his career, Wisden ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time, behind Donald Bradman, and the second greatest one-day-international (ODI) batsman of all time, behind Viv Richards. Tendulkar was a part of the 2011 Cricket World Cup winning Indian team in the later part of his career, his first such win in six World Cup appearances for India. He was also the recipient of Player of the Tournament award of ICC World Cup, 2003 held in South Africa.

He won the 2010 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC awards. He has been recommended for the receipt of the Bharat Ratna award, in fact it has been speculated that the criteria for the award of the Bharat Ratna was changed to allow him receive the award. He is also a member of RajyaSabha of Parliament of India. Tendulkar passed 30,000 runs in international cricket on 20 November 2009. After a two-month break he is likely to return to test arena with the series against New Zealand commencing in late August 2012.

Tendulkar has been honoured with the Padma Vibhushan award, India's second highest civilian award, and the Rajiv Gandhi KhelRatna award, India's highest sporting honour. Tendulkar became the first sportsperson and the first person without an aviation background to be awarded the honorary rank of Group Captain by the Indian Air Force. He has received honorary doctorates from University of Mysore and Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences. Sachin holds 12th rank in ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen as of August 2012. On 1 August 2012, Sachin Tendulkar was nominated for the ICC People's Choice award for the third time.

Sachin Tendulkar was conferred with the membership in the Order of Australia (AM) in Mumbai on Tuesday (November 6). Simon Crean, minister in the Australian cabinet, presented the award to Tendulkar. Julia Gillard, the Australian Prime Minister, was on an official visit to New Delhi in October and had announced Tendulkar's name as the latest recipient of the award.

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BJP all set for Mission Repeat

Vishal Sharma, Hamirpur Correspondent

            CM Prof. Prem Kumal Dhumal said that even the congress high command knows that BJP will win the forthcoming elections. This is the reason why the congress has refrained from declaring the chief ministerial candidate before the elections. The BJP is receiving positive vibes from the residents of the state. The best party is that each day a new scam of UPA government is coming to light making the people aware of the misdeeds of congress.

He said these words while addressing the multitude of people and media personnel after filing his nomination papers in Hamirpur. Answering a question pertaining to the existence of third front, Prof. Dhumal said that the people have never supported and will never support the third front. Past is an example that the third front has never have been successful in the past.

Responding to questions about the last election fo Virbhadra Singh, he said that it has been an all-time strategy of Virbhadra Singh to make such comments during elections to attain political mileage. His old age and health does not permit him to work actively anymore. He should take volunteer retirement from active politics now. Huge multitude of people was present at Hamirpur when he filed his nomination.

Who will win the capital?

Vishal Sharma, Shimla Correspondent

With assembly polls less than a month away, the speculations have already started as to who will next MLA from Shimla? Each individual has his or her own views in this regard. Bharatiya Janta Party stole the scene by declaring the sitting MLA from Shimla (Urban) Mr. Suresh Bhardwaj, as its candidate from the constituency in the first list of candidates released by it. The Congress was somewhat lost in the blame-game and infighting, so couldn’t choose the candidate at the earliest.

Former Mayor, Mr. Harish Janartha has been declared as its candidate by the Congress party. Sensing the public resentment against the congress and the BJP, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has also fielded Deputy Mayor Shimla, Mr. Tikender Panwar as its candidate. The fight on Shimla seat has always been 3 sided for the past many years.

In the 2007 assembly polls, BJP candidate Mr. Suresh Bhardwaj remained victorious followed by CPI (M) candidate Mr. Sanjay Chauhan, whereas Congress candidate Mr. Harbhajan Singh Bhajji remained at third position. The speculations are on as to who will win the capital this time. Some locals are well-satisfied with the development worked undertaken by the present government; whereas others say that Mission Repeat will be impossible to be materialized as BJP will have to face anti-incumbency as well.

Virbhadra will be CM for 6th time: Vidya Stokes

Vishal Sharma, Shimla Correspondent

            Once considered to be the two opposite poles of Himachal congress, Virbhadra Singh and Vidya Stokes have exhibited a great sense of unity just prior to the state polls. Addressing a congress working committee meeting at Rajeev Bhawan, Leader of Opposition, Mrs. Vidya Stokes said that the congress party will remain victorious in the forthcoming assembly polls under the leadership of Virbhadra Singh and that the PCC President will definitely hold the position of state chief minister for the 6^th time.

Making a sarcastic remark, PCC president said that it would really be interesting to see that who remains victorious with a greater margin, he or Mrs. Stokes. The meeting was held in the congress state headquarters to welcome NSUI ex-president Mr. Atul Sharma back into the party fold. Virbhadra Singh said that he was ready to welcome any person back into the party provided the person was willing to uproot the present BJP regime.

Mrs. Stokes even praised Virbhadra’s son, Vikramaditya for his dedication and hard-work. She said that it could be her last term as an active politician and wished the party would write new records of success and glory with young and enthusiastic members.