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Business person

From Hyderabad, Telangana.
Holds bachelor degree in electrical engineering from Osmania university and masters from state University.

Indian entrepreneur,
Founder and managing director of Kalaari capital.
Forbes(2014) listed her as a most powerful women in Indian Business.

Vani was born and educated in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (now Telangana), India. She holds degrees in electrical engineering, having obtained a Bachelor of Engineering from Osmania University and a Master of Engineering from Arizona State University.

Vani Kola is an Indian venture capitalist. She was listed as one of the most powerful women in Indian Business by Fortune India. She is the founder and Managing Director of Kalaari Capital, one of India’s leading early stage venture capital firms. She is a technology-focused early-stage investor, known for her aptitude for picking founders and mentoring them to build high growth enterprises.

At Kalaari, she works with entrepreneurs to build global companies, focused on technology, leveraging India’s domestic growth to create high growth enterprises. Vani has led investments in e-commerce, mobile services, education and healthcare. Some of Kola’s notable venture capital successes include: Dream11, Cure.fit, Snapdeal, Myntra among others.
Vani returned to India in 2006, after her successful career as a Entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, to start a venture capital firm in India, drawn to the growing Indian opportunity. Kalaari Capital began operations as a US$150 million fund in September 2012. Under Vani’s leadership, the firm has grown to have US$650 million in assets under management, as of 2017.

Recognised as one of the Most Powerful Women in Indian Business (Forbes, 2014), she has won TiE Delhi-NCR 5th Edition of Women Entrepreneurship Summit Award on 20 July 2018, in Delhi. As part of the first-ever startup awards launched by Economic Times, Vani was awarded the Midas touch award for the best investor in 2015. She also won the NDTV Women of Worth award for leadership excellence in business and entrepreneurship. She has been identified as one of the LinkedIn Top Voices in 2016. She has been profiled in numerous books and has been named as one of Fortune India’s ‘Most Powerful Women in Business’ twice in 2018and 2019.

English Romantic Poet

William Wordsworth (7th April 1770 – 23rd April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who helped to launch the Romantic age in English Literature. He alone with Samuel Taylor Coleridge launched Romanticism with their joined publication ‘Lyrical Ballads’ .

He was born to John Wordsworth and Cookson in Cumberland, England . He has a famous poetess sister Dorothy Wordsworth. He was taught by his mother initially and was later admitted to a school in Penarth . After his mother’s death he was sent to Hawkshead Grammar School in Lancashire . He later attended St. John’s College Cambridge . He first published his sonnet “The European Magazine” .

In 1795 he met Samuel Taylor Coleridge and they together published Lyrical Ballads in 1798 and started the Romantic Movement . His famous poem “Tintern Abbey” published alone with Coleridge’s ‘Rime of Ancient Mariner’. In the preface of this poem Wordsworth discussed what he sees as the elements of a new type of verse , one that is based on ordinary language ‘really used by men’. He gives the definition of poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings , it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity ” and calls his poems as “experimental ” .

In 1798-99 he stared an autobiographical poem ‘Poem to Coleridge’ . In 1807 he published the poem “Ode Intimations of Immorality from recollection of early childhood” . In 1814 he published “The excursion , Daffodils , Ode to duty , the solitary Reaper , London 1802, The world is too much with us. He also published French Revolution 1810, Guide to the lakes 1810, Lavo Damia 1815, 45, the white doe Rylstone 1815 , Peter Bell 1819 , Ecclesiastical sonnets 1822 , The prelude 1815 .

He died at his home at Rydal Mount from an aggravated cause of pleurisy on 23 April 1850 and was buried at Oswald’s Church , Grasmere . His wife Mary published his autobiographical poem ”Poem to Coleridge as the Prelude” several months after his death . He remains as the famous and most influential poet the 20th century.

Ranjith Ramachandran, an Assistant Professor at IIM Ranchi, is a role model today. His struggle to get a good education and the fight to sustain himself to see his dream getting realised is being regarded as an inspiration to the society.

Ranjith lived in a dilapidated single room mud hut and worked as a night watchman for survival. His father is a tailor and his mother a daily wage earner under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).

He did his graduation from St Pious College, Kanhangad in northernmost Kerala and worked as a night watchman at the BSNL exchange in Panathur, Kasargod district. He graduated with Economics honors and went on to study for a doctoral degree at IIT Madras, one of the premier institutes of the country.

Ranjith, who writes himself as Ranjith K. Panathur, said that he was totally desperate after getting into IIT Madras as he knew no other language other than Malayalam. As communication was difficult, he wanted to quit, said Ranjith. However Dr Subhash, his professor at IIT Madras encouraged him to continue, and now Ranjith has got a posting as Assistant Professor in the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ranchi.

After his doctoral degree from IIT Madras, Ranjith joined Christ University, Bangalore for two months and he got a posting at IIM Ranchi. In between, he was also on the merit list for the selection of professors in Calicut university but could not make it.

In a Facebook post, Ranjith wrote extensively on the trauma and the tough life he had faced to meet two ends together and dedicates his success to the poor parents, who had given everything to make him what he is now.

His Facebook post turned viral with more than 37,000 likes and Ranjith while speaking to IANS said, “I never thought that my Facebook post would go this viral, I had posted it to be an inspiration for each and everyone who are fighting with their backs to the wall and I wanted to be an inspiration, nothing more.”

The story of Ranjith, who comes from a remote village in the northernmost part of Kerala, is being appreciated as a hugely inspiring one, and he is being projected as a role model.

Kerala Finance Minister and a Doctorate in Economics from the Centre For Development Studies, Dr. Thomas Issac while speaking to IANS said, “Ranjith is an inspiration and from the moment he felt he was defeated, he turned his life and achieved success. He is an inspiration and role model, we have seen the likes of former President Late K.R. Naryananan who had defeated his circumstances with extraordinary will power and attained success.”

He adds, “Ranjith has used education as a tool to overcome the social and economic backwardness and climbed up the ladder of success and he is an inspiration, enabler and a role model for all the young children who seek to attain success in life and they must understand that education is a major tool for success and to open newer pastures.”

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria ; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901 ) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. On 1 May 1876 , she adopted the additional title of Empress of India . Known as the Victorian era , her reign of 63 years and seven months was longer than that of any of her predecessors . It was a period of industrial , cultural , political , scientific , and military change within the United Kingdom , and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire .

Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward , Duke of Kent and Strathearn ( he fourth son of King George III ) , and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld . After both the Duke and his father died in 1820, she was raised under close supervision by her mother and her comptroller , John Conroy . She inherited the throne aged 18 after her father’s three elder brothers died without surviving legitimate issue . The United Kingdom was an established constitutional monarchy in which the sovereign held to influence government policy and ministerial appointments ; publicly , she became a national icon who was identified with strict standards of personal morality.

Victoria married her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1840. Their children married into royal and noble families across the continent , earning Victoria the sobriquet ”the grandmother of Europe” and spreading haemophilia in European royalty . After Albert’s death in 1861 , Victoria plunged into deep mourning and avoided public appearances. As a result of her seclusion , republicanism in the United Kingdom temporarily gained streng0th , but in the latter half of her reign , her popularity recovered . her Golden and Diamond Jubilees were times of public celebration . She died on the Isle of Wight in 1901. The last British monarch of the House of Hanover , she was succeeded by her son Edward VII of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Goth .

Abhijit Banerjee is an Indian-American development economist who shared the 2019 ‘Nobel Memorial Prize ‘ in Economic Sciences with Esther Duflo, his wife , and Michael Kremer , fellow economist from Harvard University ” . Banerjee and Duflo, both professors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, became the sixth married couple to jointly win a Nobel Prize.

Banerjee is the director of Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, which he had co-founded with Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan. He has previously taught economics at Harvard University and Princeton University . He has authored seven books so far , most popular of which is ‘Poor Economics’ , co-written with Duflo.

Abhijit Binayak Banerjee was born on February 21, 1961 in Calcutta , now Kolkata , the capital of state of West Bengal , India , to Nirmala and Dipak Banerjee . His mother was a professor of economics at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, while his father was a professor and the head of Department of Economics at Presidency College , Calcutta.

A student of prestigious , South Point School , he obtained his Bachelor’s degree in economics from Presidency College , Calcutta in1981, before completing his Master’s degree from the Jawaharlal Nehru University , Delhi , in 1983. He subsequently went to study at Harvard University and got his Ph.D in economics in1988 for the thesis paper ‘Essays in Information Economics’. Abhijit Banerjee began his professional career as an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Princeton University in 1988 and stayed in that position until 1992 . In 2003 , with economics Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan , he co-founded Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab , a Global Research Centre working to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence . He was the president of Bureau for Research in the Economic Analysis of Development in 2003-04 . in 2004 , he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and became a member of the Council of the Economic Research and a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research . Two years later , he became an International Research Fellow of the Kiel Institute and was made Honorary Consultant in PEO , Planning Commission, in India . In 2011, he co-authored the book ‘Poor Economics’, his fourth book , with his then partner and colleague Esther Duflo. The book was translated into over 17 languages and won the 2011 ‘Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.

In 2000, Abhijit Banerjee was honored with the ‘Mahalanobis Memorial Medal’ in India nd received the ‘Malcolm Adeshesiah Award’ the following year . he was the recipient of the inaugural ‘Infosys Award in Social Sciences’ in the category of economics in 2009 . In 2014, he was awarded the Bernhard-Harms-prize from the Kiel Institute foe the World Economy and received an Honorary Doctoral degree from KU Leuven. along with his wife Esther Duflo and fellow economist Michael Kremer, he received the ‘Nobel Memorial Prize’ in Economic Sciences in October 2019.