On the record

Stories

• Education activist

  Malala Yousafzai

  Shot for going to school. Honored for making sure other girls still can.

• Industrialist

  Elon Musk

  Tesla, SpaceX, and the wager that industry can still look like science fiction.

• Batter

  Virat Kohli

  India’s most watched batsman — discipline as a public fact.

• Actor

  Zendaya

  Euphoria to Dune: a face the culture now files as serious work.

• Chip executive

  Jensen Huang

  The leather jacket behind the chips that run modern AI.

• Chief executive

  Sundar Pichai

  From Chennai to Google’s chair — the quiet operator of the open web.

• Industrialist

  Ratan Tata

  The industrialist India still measures other names against.