What is the invention of the social entrepreneur whose life is the subject of an upcoming 2018 Indian film called 'Padman' ?
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Padman Padman is an upcoming 2018 Indian Hindi comedy-drama film featuring Akshay Kumar, Sonam Kapoor and Radhika Apte in lead roles. Amitabh Bachchan will appear in a special role. The film is inspired from the life of Arunachalam Muruganantham.
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Arunachalam Muruganantham Arunachalam Muruganantham (born 1962) is a social entrepreneur from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, India. He is the inventor of a low-cost sanitary pad making machine and has innovated grass-roots mechanisms for generating awareness about traditional unhygienic practices around menstruation in rural India. His mini-machines, which can manufacture sanitary pads for less than a third of the cost of commercial pads, have been installed in 23 of the 29 states of India. He is currently planning to expand the production of these machines to 106 nations.
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Gurtej Sandhu Gurtej Sandhu is an Indian inventor in the fields of thin film processes and materials, VLSI and semiconductor device fabrication. He is recognized for being the manas all-time sixth most prolific inventor in the world as measured by number of U.S. utility patents. Gurtej has 1,170 U.S. utility patents as of 7, 2015 . Currently he is Senior Fellow and Director of Advanced Technology developments at Micron Technology, Inc. The publication Kiplinger reports, "Sandhu developed a method of coating microchips with titanium without exposing the metal to oxygen, which would ruin the chips. Initially, he didn't think his idea was a big deal, but now most memory-chip makers use the process." The publication also states that Gurtej earned an electrical engineering degree at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and a physics PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Christopher deCharms Christopher deCharms is a serial entrepreneur, neuroscientist, social entrepreneur, author, inventor, and founder and CEO of "Omneuron", a life sciences company focusing on new technologies for measuring and changing brain function based on pioneering imaging methods that allow people to watch the activation of their own brains 'live' using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). This allows people to learn to change the patterns of their own mind and mental functioning through changing their brain activation patterns. This work, funded by the National Institutes of Health, is in late-stage clinical trials for novel treatments of chronic pain, depression, and anxiety.
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Arif Ayub Arif Ayub (born November 14, 1982) is a Pakistani entrepreneur and inventor.
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Sarathbabu Elumalai Sarathbabu Elumalai is an Indian entrepreneur, social worker and politician. He is the founder and CEO of FoodKing.
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Smart Village India Smart Village is a concept adopted by national, state and local governments of India, as an initiative focused on holistic rural development, derived from Mahatma Gandhi's vision of "Adarsh Gram" (Ideal Village) and "Swaraj" (Self Reliance). Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) or SAANJHI) on 11 October 2014, Gandhi's birthday, in addition to Smart Cities" and "Digital India", as a development programme for India. The Parliamentarian's Model Village Scheme main goal is for each Member of Parliament and Minister to adopt a rural village and develop it into a model by 2019 under the SAGY guidelines. The vision of SAGY is a integrated village development plan, encompassing "Personal", "Human", "Social", and "Economic" dimensions.
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Shiv Nadar Shiv Nadar (born 14 July 1945) is an Indian industrialist and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of HCL and the Shiv Nadar Foundation. Nadar founded HCL in the mid-1970s and transformed the IT hardware company into an IT enterprise over the next three decades by constantly reinventing his company's focus. In 2008, Nadar was awarded Padma Bhushan for his efforts in the IT industry. Nadar, nicknamed by friends as "Magus" (Old Persian for "wizard"), since the mid-1990s has focused his efforts on developing the educational system of India through the Shiv Nadar Foundation.
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Ashwin Dani Ashwin Suryakant Dani is an Indian entrepreneur, promoter and non executive vice chairman of Asian Paints Ltd, India’s largest paint company. Ashwin is among the top 50 richest Indians and Forbes global billionaires.
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Naveen Jha Naveen Jha (born April 9, 1977) is a social entrepreneur and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Deshpande Foundation, India.
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Kailash Chandra Meher Kailash Chandra Meher (born 22 January 1954) is an Indian artist, inventor, social activist. He is a painter of contemporary modern art paintings and traditional Tussar Pattachitra paintings of Odisha. He was a recipient of the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2013.
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Kirthi Jayakumar Kirthi Jayakumar (born 15 December 1987) is an Indian women's rights activist, a social entrepreneur, a peace activist, artist, lawyer and writer.
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Prasad V. Potluri Prasad V. Potluri (Telugu: ప్రసాద్ వి పొట్లూరి, born on 8 September 1970), popularly known as "PVP", is a serial entrepreneur, philanthropist and educationalist. He started his own production company called PVP cinema.
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Shruti Kapoor Dr. Shruti Kapoor (born 25 September) is an Indian economist, women's rights activist, and social entrepreneur. She is the founder of Sayfty, an initiative that aims to educate and empower young women and girls against all forms of violence.
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P. R. Krishna Kumar P. R. Krishna Kumar (born 23 September 1951) is an Indian ayurvedic physician and the founder of the AVP Research Foundation, a non-profit research organization promoting research in the Indian medicine system of Ayurveda and Managing Director of The Arya Vaidya Pharmacy (Coimbatore) Ltd. He is the Chancellor of the Avinashilingam University, the Chairman of "CARe Keralam" (Confederation for Ayurvedic Renaissance - Keralam), a resource centre involved in efforts to standardize the ayurvedic medicines and is a recipient of an honorary doctoral degree from Kuvempu University. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2009, for his contributions to Medicine.
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Karan Arora Karan Arora (Hindi:करन अरोड़ा) (born 2 June 1973, in Allahabad ) is a London-based Indian film producer, entrepreneur and founder of High Ground Enterprises Ltd. (2008),
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T. G. K. Menon Thacheril Govindan Kutty Menon is an Indian social worker and environmentalist. His contributions are reported in the introduction of environmentally friendly irrigation and farming techniques under the aegis of Kasturbagram in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. He is known to have promoted bio-dynamic agriculture in India. He received the Jamnalal Bajaj Award in 1989. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 1991.
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Y. S. Rajan Yagnaswami Sundara Rajan or Y. S. Rajan (born 10 April 1943) is an Indian professor, scientist and administrator. He is Honorary Distinguished Professor in Indian Space Research Organisation. He has made major contributions to various aspects of management of Science, Technology and Innovation. In 2012, He has been awarded with Padma Shri for his contribution in Science and Engineering. He is one of the well known scientists, who has closely worked with Abdul Kalam, former President of India.
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Rajan Raheja Rajan Biharilal Raheja (born 1953) is an Indian billionaire businessman who lives in Mumbai.
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Tonya Surman Tonya Surman is a Toronto-based social entrepreneur, and the founding executive director and current CEO of the Centre for Social Innovation.
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Shaffi Mather Shaffi Mather (born February 6, 1970) is an Indian social entrepreneur, who served as the Economic Advisor to the Chief Minister, Oommen Chandy, of Kerala's Congress led, UDF Government. He also worked, for a short period, as an advisor to Rahul Gandhi. He is a lawyer. Shaffi has also worked in the Real Estate sector, along with his brothers. In April 2010, he attended the Entrepreneur Summit which was held at Washington DC, at the invitation of US President Barack Obama.
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Tanay Pant Tanay Pant (born 28 September 1995) is an Indian author, speaker, innovator, and tech enthusiast. He is best known for his work on various books on computer science, open source contributions and his talks at technology conferences.