AW
"If you want to change the world, start by making your bed."
AA
"Dream is not what you see while sleeping. It is something that does not let you sleep."
BB
On vulnerability as the birthplace of courage.
BS
Founder of Equal Justice Initiative — on proximity as the source of power.
CN
On the danger of a single story — and on choosing your own narrative.
CR
"India can only be great when its scientists stop apologising for choosing science over money."
DF
"Two fish swim past an older fish. He says: How's the water? They look at each other: What the hell is water?"
DA
Petrol pump attendant in Aden at 17. Founder of Reliance Industries at 26. Built India's largest private company from nothing.
JR
On the gift of failure and the power of imagination.
JB
"In the end, we are our choices."
KM
She started Biocon in a garage in 1978 with ₹10,000. Every bank refused her a loan.
MY
Shot by the Taliban for going to school — and still standing.
MA
"You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove."
MS
Father of India's Green Revolution — who turned a food-deficit nation into a food-surplus one.
NM
On what you will regret at 80 — and what you won't.
NM
"Hard work has no substitute — not talent, not luck, not connection."
NG
"Make good art."
OW
On turning failures into signposts.
RR
On thinking independently in a world that rewards conformity.
RP
Delivered while dying of pancreatic cancer — on time as the only non-renewable resource.
RT
On integrity as the one foundation all success must rest on.
RN
"We cannot be mere consumers of good governance. We must be participants. Co-creators."
SN
"Geeks who can speak" — on communication as the new currency.
SS
Given a year after the sudden loss of her husband — a talk on building resilience through grief.
SJ
"Stay hungry. Stay foolish."
SM
"Life is an exam where the syllabus is unknown and question papers are not set. Nor are there model answer papers."
SP
From a Chennai family without a refrigerator or car — to CEO of Google.
TC
"Measure your impact on humanity not in likes, but in lives changed."
TM
On the difference between being a success and being of use.
VK
He transformed dairy. One determined person, working with the poor, changed the food security of a billion people.