Day: April 9, 2016

Anu Aga, India’s eighth richest woman, says she is no different from you

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Anu Aga, India’s eighth richest woman, says she is no different from you

Born into the bourgeois, you grow up idolising the greats of your time – the actors, the popstars, the tycoons and the world-leaders, not knowing that you also pedestalise them in the process, leaving you feeling inexplicably handicapped by the ordinariness of your roots. In your twenties, this false divide widens, as you start harbouring great ire at the predictable route your life is heading towards; and great fear that things may not change, but you tell yourself that you perhaps, never even had a shot. By the time you…

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Stanford educated Ratul Narain is helping babies battle hypothermia with a simple bracelet

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Stanford educated Ratul Narain is helping babies battle hypothermia with a simple bracelet

Rithiksha wore a bright bracelet for the first three weeks after birth. Rithiksha’s mother, Divya, who had lost her first born to pneumonia, was told that a series of beeps indicate a drop in the baby’s body temperature and the baby needs to be swaddled to regulate the body temperature. Rithiksha’s mother did as she was told. One night, the bracelet continued to beep for six hours. The worried mother called the helpline for the bracelet, where she was advised to take her baby to the hospital. Baby Rithiksha was…

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