Answers to 'Identify these Well-known Personalities'.

1. Adi Godrej is one of the icons of Indian industry. He is the Chairman of Godrej Group.

2. Amartya Sen is an Economist and is the sixth Indian to get the Nobel Prize and the first Asian Winner of the Economics Prize in 1998. He also received Bharat Ratna in 1999, the highest Civilian Award in India. In 2003, he was conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Indian Chamber of Commerce. He currently serves as one of Harvard University 's 18 elite professors.

3. Amar Bose is the Founder and CEO of Bose Corporation. Bose speakers are world famous for giving highend performance despite their modest size. He was featured in 2006 Forbes Billionaires List. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 2008.

4. Arundhati Roy is a Writer, a Political Journalist and a Social Activist. She is the first Indian woman to get Britain's prestigious Booker's Prize in 1997. In 2002, she won the Lannan Foundation's Cultural Freedom Award. Roy was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in May 2004. In January 2006, she was awarded the Sahitya Akademi award from India's Academy of Letters.

5. Mallika Srinivasan is serving as the President of premier industrial bodies like Tractor Manufacturers Association and the Madras Management Association. She is the first lady to have assumed the role of President of the Madras Chamber of Commerce and Industry. She is also a prominent member of the Governing Board of the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

6. Monica Tata is a Vice-President and Deputy General Manager, Entertainment Networks, South Asia, for Turner International India. She took a strategic approach, leveraged promotional licensing to grow the non-traditional advertiser base.


Answers to Brain-Teasers

1. SunLife

2. Word of Mouth

3. Virendra Sehwag

4. James MacGregor Burns

5. TV 18

6. It was a bright, sunny day.


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