W-Power 2021
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Pratima Joshi: Putting slums on the map
This architect and social entrepreneur has given every household in slums across seven Maharashtra cities a distinct digital address so that they can access basic services like clean water, safe sanitation and even doorstep delivery
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Neha Satak: Taking high-speed internet to Bharat
Astrome Technologies' Satak calls herself an innovator at heart, and is using creative methods to take high-speed internet to the masses, including rural India
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Lizzie Chapman: Pioneering buy now pay later in India
ZestMoney's Chapman has been in fintech before it became a rage, and has cracked the consumer market in her adopted home—India
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Laina Emmanuel, Rimjhim Agrawal: Making a Google Map of the brain
The cofounders of BrainSightAI piloted their neuro-infomatics platform Voxelbox in 2021, a technology they hope will help mental health practitioners, including psychiatrists understand the brain better
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Dr Jayanti Shastri: One step ahead of Covid-19 variants
Dr Shastri's genome sequencing lab is the first of its kind in Mumbai to decode Covid variants, and her research helps inform civic and state authorities on the best course of action
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Hardika Shah: Helping small businesses grow
Shah's Kinara Capital works on financial inclusion and has led to an incremental income generation of Rs 700 crore for small business entrepreneurs, and led to more than 250,000 jobs created or sustained
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Disha Ravi: The climate change agent
Disha has been a driving force for climate change mobilisation and education in India since she was 19, also leading Greta Thunberg's Friday's For Future in India, to turn her family's personal experiences with water scarcity into learning opportunities for others
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Bhavina Patel: Making smashing history
This para-athlete surpassed numerous odds to clinch a historic silver in table tennis at the Tokyo Paralympic Games this year, a remarkable achievement for someone who started playing the game as an adult
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Avani Lekhara: Making impossible, possible
Paralysed at 10, this para-shooter didn't let the tragedy hold her down. Armed with her supportive father, former India shooter Suma Shirur, and Abhinav Bindra's autobiography, she gunned and broke Paralympic records
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Ashwini Asokan: Bringing gender parity to AI
The founder and CEO of Mad Street Den helps companies in their digital and AI transformation journeys, with the aim to make every person an AI native
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Matilda Kullu: The purpose of saving lives
Grassroots health workers were instrumental in taking Covid-19 care to the bottom of the pyramid, but like Kullu, they remain overworked and underpaid