A student at Bournemouth University in the UK, Vedangi is pursuing a degree in sports management. Her preparation for this ride began almost two years ago.
One of India's earliest action stars, Mary Anne Evans – or Fearless Nadia, as she was more famously known – swashbuckled her way through gender and cultural barriers in the late 1930s.
Indian-Australian mathematician Akshay Venkatesh has been awarded the Infosys Prize 2016 in Mathematics for his exceptionally wide-ranging, fundamental and creative contributions to the modern number theory.