Forbes list: Pannu, Masaba in India's under-30 top achievers

 | Updated: Dec 12, 2017, 01:31 PM IST
Still not 30, they are India's super achievers, meet Indians who have made it to the top of Forbes list

Taapsee Pannu

Actor

She made a huge impact amongst the audience who watched her hard-hitting film Pink, which dealt with the evil of women?s harassment.

For someone who did envision becoming an actor, Pannu thinks of the recognition as a bonus.

But ?acting will never take over my life,? she told Forbes India.
This clear mindset remains one of her biggest strengths.
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Masaba Gupta

Founder & Creative Head, House of Masaba

She is the daughter of former West Indian cricketer Viv Richards and veteran television star Neena Gupta. Masaba is a fashion designer in her own right.

She has had a great journey so far and has won awards - Best Emerging Designer by Cosmopolitan (2010) and Marie Claire (2011) to one of India?s most promising talents by Vogue Italia (2015) at a very young age. She has also done collaborations with Clinique and Tata Nano in the past.

Her fierce and bold style with a strong play of colour and cut have also appealed to several A-listers such as actor Sonam Kapoor who have made red carpet appearances in Gupta?s creations which combine traditional Indian sensibilities with Caribbean aesthetics.
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Priyesh Trivedi

Artist, Animator

He is a visual artist from Bombay. It all started when he decided to draw a sketch on the night after returning from his job at an animation studio and posted it on Facebook.

The post soon went viral, giving rise to what is now called ?Adarsh Balak? which consists of textbook style artwork and mixes with subversive messages. His drawing of a boy handing over a joint to his tired father created a firestorm on social media.

Speaking of Trivedi?s selection to the Gasworks Residency in London in 2016, Robert Leckie, the programme?s curator, said, ?The residency funders?Dick Alford from Charles Wallace India Trust and Amita Malkani from the Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation?and I greatly appreciated the humor and irreverence in Priyesh?s work, especially how he subverts the established principles of classical education to comment on the shifting circumstances and attitudes of today.?
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Suchita Salwan

Founder & CEO, Little Black Book

Suchita worked as a marketing executive for BBC in Delhi. She often liked to explore the city and find new places which inspired her to start the service.

Little Black Book, which includes a website and an app, currently offers local recommendations and discoveries for food, events, lifestyle and cultural dos across three cities?Delhi, Bengaluru and Mumbai.

Suchita attributes the platform?s phenomenal growth in monthly active users on Twitter which has reached from 120,000 in May 2015 to 1.5 million today.
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Rahul Jaimini & Nandan Reddy

Co-founders, Swiggy

Nandan Reddy, 29, and Sriharsha Majesty, 31 were from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani. They two had previously started ?Bundl?, a logistics aggregator that connected small and medium companies to courier service providers.

They soon decided to change their line and came up with Swiggy along with Rahul Jaimini, 29, an IIT Kharagpur alumnus. Swiggy has had a huge success with over 6000 delivery executives all around NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata and Pune.

It has raised a total of $75.5 million in funding from various investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Norwest Venture, Accel Partners, SAIF Partners, Harmony Venture Partners, RB Investments and Apoletto.
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