व्यक्तित्व · People I learn from

• डॉ. एस. जयशंकर Dr S. Jaishankar, External Affairs Minister of India. How a civilisational state conducts itself in a multipolar world.
• किशोर महबूबानी Kishore Mahbubani, Diplomat, dean and author. Why this century is Asia’s, and what that asks of India.
• साइमन सिनेक Simon Sinek, Author and speaker. Start with why, and lead so people feel safe.
• जॉर्डन पीटरसन Jordan B. Peterson, Clinical psychologist and author. Responsibility, meaning and the order you make of chaos.
• नवल रविकांत Naval Ravikant, Founder and investor. Specific knowledge, leverage and happiness as a skill.
• विनोद खोसला Vinod Khosla, Venture capitalist and Sun Microsystems co-founder. Bets most investors avoid, and AI as a free doctor and tutor for everyone.
• जेफ़री सैक्स Jeffrey D. Sachs, Economist and sustainable development adviser. Sustainable development, happiness as policy and why India will be the world’s largest economy.
• युवाल नोआ हरारी Yuval Noah Harari, Historian and author of Sapiens. The historian of shared fictions who now warns that AI could rewrite the human story.
• सद्गुरु Sadhguru, Yogi, author and founder of the Isha Foundation. Joy as a skill, yoga as a science and soil as a civilisational priority.
• एलन मस्क Elon Musk, Founder of SpaceX and CEO of Tesla. Reusable rockets, electric cars and Starlink, built from first principles.
• अजीत डोभाल Ajit Doval, National Security Adviser of India. The intelligence veteran who became India’s longest-serving National Security Adviser.
• चाणक्य Chanakya, Teacher, strategist and the traditional author of the Arthashastra. The state as seven limbs and the king’s happiness in the happiness of his people.
• लियोनार्दो दा विंची Leonardo da Vinci, Painter, engineer and scientist of the Italian Renaissance. The painter of the Mona Lisa whose notebooks joined art and science.
• होमी जहांगीर भाभा Homi J. Bhabha, Physicist and founder of India’s nuclear programme. The Cambridge physicist who built TIFR and Trombay and planned India’s atomic future around thorium.
• विक्रम साराभाई Vikram Sarabhai, Physicist and father of the Indian space programme. The physicist who founded PRL and ISRO and made space serve a poor country’s real problems.
• सैम मानेकशॉ Sam Manekshaw, Field Marshal and Chief of the Army Staff in the 1971 war. The soldier who told a Prime Minister the truth and won the 1971 war.
• स्टीव जॉब्स Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder who built NeXT and Pixar. Technology at the intersection of the liberal arts, and focus as the art of saying no.
• नंदन नीलेकणि Nandan Nilekani, Infosys co-founder and architect of Aadhaar and India Stack. Aadhaar, UPI and the idea of digital public infrastructure for a billion people.
• जॉन जे. मियरशाइमर John J. Mearsheimer, Political scientist and theorist of offensive realism. Great powers, the balance of power and why states fear each other.
• जेन्सन हुआंग Jensen Huang, Co-founder and chief executive of Nvidia. The GPU, CUDA and the computing that powers modern AI.
• आर्थर सी. ब्रुक्स Arthur C. Brooks, Social scientist and writer on happiness. Happiness as a skill you can learn, and how to grow wiser with age.
• दलाई लामा The Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist monk and the 14th Dalai Lama. Compassion, secular ethics and happiness as the purpose of life.
• डॉ. ए. पी. जे. अब्दुल कलाम Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Aerospace scientist and the 11th President of India. The Missile Man who became the People’s President and asked the young to dream.
• जगदीश चन्द्र बसु Jagadish Chandra Bose, Physicist, plant physiologist and founder of the Bose Institute. Radio waves before radio and the electrical life of plants.
• श्रीनिवास रामानुजन Srinivasa Ramanujan, Mathematician from Kumbakonam and Fellow of the Royal Society. The self-taught genius from Kumbakonam whose notebooks still feed mathematics.