The Big Leapers

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Across
  1. 1. He was the youngest of four siblings and has two brothers and a sister. After his mother's death when he was nine years old,[9] he struggled with an impoverished lifestyle during his childhood. He performed various jobs before joining the Bangalore Transport Service (BTS) as a bus conductor. He has worked in over 150 films across various film industries of India. He has won six Tamil Nadu State Film Awards—four Best Actor Awards and two Special Awards for Best Actor—and a Filmfare Best Tamil Actor Award. He was bestowed the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian honour in 2000.
  2. 2. He was an American industrialist, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. He developed and manufactured the first automobile that many middle class Americans could afford to buy
  3. 3. His voice was rejected at the AIR (All India Radio), Delhi. He was dropped from films like Guddi and rejected by directors like Manmohan Desai. From been rejected to creating enormous name for himself in the world of entertainment, he has come a long way! He really surprised the audience as the TV host of the popular show.. Lock kiya jaye!!
  4. 7. He was just 30 years old, wildly successful, fabulously wealthy and a global celebrity. And then it all came crashing down. He had revolutionized personal computing and created an iconic brand – only to be forced out of the company he had built into a billion-dollar colossus. "I was out -- and very publicly out," he recalled in a commencement speech at Stanford University. His career followed a different arc: a meteoric rise, a humbling fall, and then one amazing comeback, perhaps the most spectacular second act of all time.
  5. 8. He said “It was not easy in the beginning. We were faced with a number of roadblocks that perhaps every first time entrepreneur has to deal with here. Setting up bank accounts, roping in an online payment option, tying up with logistics partners, ensuring timely delivery and convincing publishers to share their inventory with us – these were our challenges. It was difficult to generate supplier confidence and the inability to keep a large inventory was also an issue” Today his organization has a registered user base of 2.6 million customers, currently shipping out around 30,000 items a day and clocking daily sales to the tune of Rs 2.5 crore, It is the largest online book retailer in India.
  6. 9. A very successful an Indian cricketer who was focused on cricket after his 10th standard.[16] He was a Train Ticket Examiner (TTE) at Kharagpur railway station from 2001 to 2003, under South Eastern Railway in Midnapore (W), a district in West Bengal.
  7. 10. She worked with the United Nations in New York as the Police Advisor to the Secretary General, in the Department of Peace Keeping Operations. She represented India in International forums on crime prevention, drug abuse, police and prison reforms and women’s issues. She has has been India’s first and highest (woman) ranking officer who joined the Ind ian Police Service in 1972. Her expertise includes more than 35 years of creative and reformative policing and prison management.
Down
  1. 1. The 20-something, who racked up a résumé that would impress no one: high-school dropout with poor reading and math skills. Failed get-rich-quick schemes. Long-haired, barefooted hippie. Struggling business that led to two arrests and a night in jail on suspicion of tax evasion. Today he is the chairman of a group that has more than 400 companies, one of which is a Virgin Atlantic Airways.
  2. 4. She was born in Skopje, Macedonia and taught in India for 17 years before she experienced her 1946 "call within a call" to devote herself to caring for the sick and poor. Her order established a hospice; centers for the blind, aged, and disabled; and a leper colony. She was summoned to Rome in 1968, and in 1979 received the Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work.
  3. 5. In the summer of 1975, he dropped out of college and moved to a cheap motel room in Albuquerque, N.M. He was 19, restless, and driven by a single objective: to change the world. Today he is the is the former chief executive and current chairman of the world’s largest personal-computer software company. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people
  4. 6. In Year 1976, he established Softronics, an organization that survived a season and 50 percent. When he noticed that his first project was not getting off, he shifted on. Almost 30 decades ago, he started an IT company with amount of Rs 10,000 that he obtained from his spouse. In few decades, that company went on become biggest prosperity in India.
  5. 7. He took the biggest leap. He said “Working at General Motors and studying at Wharton enabled me to grab skills and understanding that are relevant even in politics. But the biggest lesson that I have learnt is - we must welcome change, and learn from every new opportunity that we get. “ Today he represents the Ajmer constituency of Rajasthan and is a member of the Indian National Congress. He is presently Minister of Corporate Affairs.
  6. 9. She comes from an impoverished background, and could not afford proper shoes and sports gear to pursue her passion. She had a vision and she worked with complete dedication towards her goals fighting against all the obstacles that came her way. An Indian boxer with an Olympic medal in hand; she has become India’s latest sports star. She is the first boxer who has made women’s boxing popular in India.