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Forbes India 30 Under 30 2021: A feast of creativity and performance

The 20s is easily the best decade for creativity and imagination; for innovating and starting up. Which is also perhaps the best reason for Forbes India drawing up a list of go-getters and self-starters in their 20s (and younger) every year

Forbes India 30 Under 30 2021: Finding young achievers in a tough year

A glimpse into the 2021 Class of Forbes India 30 Under 30, who took on the challenges of a relentless year head on

Shubman Gill: A star is born

This 21-year-old rising star of Indian cricket is the youngest on our list, and is already making noise in the big league of international cricket

Niharika Kapoor: YouTube's first female vertical head, and the youngest

In the world of digital content creators and social media influencers, meet the person who discovers and grooms new talent for YouTube India

Shefali Vijaywargiya: The (Amul) Kool quotient

She created her own path in the opaque sales market and now handles Amul's flagship beverage brand

The duo using drones to help farmers

BharatRohan Airborne Innovations uses UAV/drone hyperspectral imaging technologies to detect potential crop threats

Harshit Gupta: Helping farmers improve quality, quantity of produce

This 29-year-old's startup Gramophone helps nearly 6 lakh farmers with advice and information about crop cycles and solutions to other agricultural problems, to make farming more efficient

Biraaj Dodiya: Excelling the art of articulation

Hailing from a family of artists, Dodiya has dabbled in different art forms but finds she is able to "play with the language of painting the most"

FrontRow: Enabling Indians to learn from the best

Learn batting from Suresh Raina or singing from Neha Kakkar on Ishaan Preet Singh and Mikhil Raj's FrontRow, which is backed by Lightspeed India Partners among others

Aaquib Wani: Bringing technology to experiential design

From his early days as a thrash metal guitarist, to building gigantic installations at the NH7 Weekender, and more, this 29-year-old designer has come a long way

I want to bring learnings from international football to India: Rangers FC forward Bala Devi

The first Indian footballer and Asia's only player to represent FC Rangers wants women's football to be accorded greater importance

Abhiraj and Niyati: Generating impact with content

Amid grim events in India, this content creator duo started making videos to highlight the light at the end of the tunnel

Ashish Chanchlani: Going viral for a living

This oft-viral YouTuber has been awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Award for 'Best Digital Influencer', and the 'Best Comedy Influencer' award at the first World Bloggers Awards held at the Cannes Film Festival

Satanik Roy: Making second-hand buying exciting

hyperXchange—backed by CP Gurnani, among others—is a refurbished goods buying and selling platform that uses AI to check and certify products

Classplus: Taking on edtech giants

Mukul Rustagi, Bhaswat Agarwal's Classplus empowers educators to launch and scale their online coaching businesses

Poulomi Pavini Shukla: Championing education for orphans

The 28-year-old Supreme Court lawyer strives to give orphans a chance at education and a career, and is influencing policy too

Nitin Jayakrishnan: Solving the logistics puzzle for big enterprises

Right from securing raw materials for factories to putting finished goods into retail and online stores, the transportation, warehousing and inventory management involves a complex, global flow of data and decision making, which PandoCorp's software is built to handle

Keerthy Suresh: An instinctive performer

This National Award-winning actor has already won over fans of Malayalam, Telugu, and Tamil films

Tripti Dimri: Going with the flow

After her memorable performance in Netflix's Bulbbul (2020), this actor is gearing up for challenging roles across mediums

Karan Torani: Telling stories through fashion

Breaking away from the over-saturated bridal wear market, Torani went for the untapped territory of creating understated luxury for middle-aged women

Aurko Bhattacharjee: Eyes on the big picture

As a close aide of Ritesh Agarwal, this 29-year-old led Oyo's Covid-19 response communication with stakeholders

Class of 2020: Where they are now

Looking back at how our alumni from last year fared in a challenging year

Santanu Agarwal: Creating seamless banking solutions for India's poorest

Paisalo taps into the Rs 8 lakh crore market opportunity of small ticket loans for India's 365 million unbanked population

Surviving 2020: How the young and restless dealt with the Covid-19 standstill

Chefs, sportspersons, musicians saw their year snatched away from them—with plans, practice, tours put on hold amid the coronavirus wreaking havoc—here's how they dealt with it

Akash Sinha: Banking on the digital wave

29-year-old Sinha's Cashfree has been incubated by PayPal, and by March 2020 was processing over $12 billion annualised payment volume on its platform

Keerthi Reddy Kotta: Tracking vaccines with blockchain

StaTwig builds a blockchain-enabled vaccine supply chain management platform to give stakeholders complete visibility of all vaccines at all times

Dozee: Enabling contactless check-ups

Mudit Dandwate and Gaurav Parchani created India's first contactless health monitor to track chronic cardiac conditions, hypertension and respiratory disorders

mCaffeine: Disrupting personal care with caffeine

Saurabh Singhal, Vaishali Gupta, Mohit Jain, the young cofounders are disrupting the personal care market with India's first hair and skin brand with caffeine products

Maalavika Manoj: Bridging the gap between familiarity and newness with her music

This 27-year-old has worked with AR Rahman, Dhanush and Sapta and is one of the most recognisable faces in the English music scene in India

Ritviz: Tapping into classical roots to create new-age music

The 24-year-old music producer, composer, songwriter and singer composed his first song at 11 and has released 18 songs till date

Piyush Verma: Giving entrepreneurs beyond metro cities a platform

Verma helps entrepreneurs and innovators from Tier 2 cities and beyond get access to mentorship, network, markets and funding, especially relevant in the Covid-19 economy

PeriFerry: Giving India's transgender community a shot at education

Neelam Jain and Nishant Agarwal are making education and careers accessible to India's transgender community

Priyanka Das Rajkakati: Mixing science and art

This space-scientist-cum-artist was one of the few to be selected to send her art to the moon as part of an International Moon Gallery project

Nexus Power: Building an EV future beyond lithium-ion batteries

Odisha-based twin sisters, the co-founders of Nexus Power, use bio-mimicry to make biodegradable fast-charging batteries from crop residue

The SAT fails its biggest test

America's higher education system was already struggling before the pandemic. Covid-19 made matters worse for students

Your flying car is finally here

With nearly a billion dollars in funding, Joby Aviation promises to have its air taxis aloft by 2023

Thoughts on being young