YOUTH SPECIAL............. Indian-Origin Prodigies Star on Forbes List

Indian-Origin Prodigies Star on Forbes List  23 Indian-origin youngsters are on the FORBES magazine’s ‘30 Under 30’ list Over 20 Indian-origin youngsters are among Forbes magazine’s annual list of the world’s “brightest young stars” under the age of 30. The third ‘30 Under 30’ list has young achievers in 15 different fields, including finance, media, sports and education. They are described by the publication as “prodigies reinventing the world right now”. The list has pop singers Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift; founder and CEO of the short-form blogging platform Tumblr David Karp; tennis player Maria Sharapova and Pakistani girls’ rights activist Malala Yousafzai. The list of 450 young achievers includes 23 men and women who are of Indian-origin. They are: FINANCE The young Indian-origin turks in the field of finance include Ganesh Betanabhatla, 28, who is the managing director at New York-based investment firm Talara Capital. Rushabh Doshi, 29, is a trader at financial firm DW Investment Management, who specialises in high-yield and distressed debt. Chaitanya Mehra, 28, is the portfolio manager at investment firm Och-Ziff Capital Management. Neil Mehta, 29, is the founder of investment firm Greenoaks Capital, where he manages some $600 million, investing in industries ranging from e-commerce to insurance. SAHIL LAVINGIA Age: 21 Founder, Gumroad Sahil Lavingia, 21, is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, a Web tool that lets creators quickly and easily sell digital products online. SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS On the list of social entrepreneurs is 29-year-old Karan Chopra, who cofounded GADCO, Ghana’s largest producer of rice. KARAN CHOPRA Age: 29 Co-Founder, GADCO Krishna Ramkumar, 28, is the cofounder of Avanti, a group of learning centres in Mumbai, Delhi, Kanpur and Chennai that provides 750 bright, low-income high school students with science and math education. Ajaita Shah, 29, founded Indiabased Frontier Markets which brings clean energy to families at the base of the pyramid. Kavita Shukla, 29, invented and patented FreshPaper — a low-cost, compostable paper infused with edible organic spices that keeps produce fresh two to four times longer. SPORTS & GAMES Making a mark in the field of sports is 28-year-old Megha Parekh, who is vice president at American football team Jacksonville Jaguars. MEGHA PAREKH, Age: 28 V-P, Jacksonville Jaguars Along with her is Amir Rao, 29. He is a studio director at Supergiant Games and is co-creator of the action role-playing video game Bastion, which has sold over 2.2 million copies since 2011 and won multiple awards. SCIENCE In the science category, Divya Nag, 22, is a leading name, having cofounded Stem Cell Theranostics and StartX Med. Raghu Chivukula, 29, is resident physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital. SURBHI SARNA Age: 28 Founder, nVision Medical Surbhi Sarna, 28, who is on the list was inspired to found nVision Medical when she, at age 13, suffered from ovarian cysts that were so painful that they made her faint. Since doctors couldn’t tell her if they were cancerous, a young Sarna vowed to create a technology to detect ovarian cancer quickly and early,Forbes said. Sam Chaudhary, 27, cofounded ClassDojo, a software company that helps teachers track classroom behaviour. Sayamindu Dasgupta, 29, is a PhD student at MIT Media Lab and is vital to the Lifelong Kindergarten Research Group’s Scratch project, which enables kids to programme their own games, animated stories, and art and share them with millions of other children around the world. Pranav Yadav, 28, is the CEO of Neuro-Insight, a neuromarketing firm that has developed a patented brain-mapping technology to investigate and improve the quality of TV commercials, programming and platforms. The youngest Indian-origin star is Eesha Khare, 18, who won the Young Scientist Award at the 2013 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for inventing a super-capacitor device that could charge a cellphone in 20-30 seconds.  The Food & Wine list has Aditi Malhotra, 28, who founded Tache Artisan Chocolate boutique in New York PTI