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And i gotta say hailing from Calcutta (now Kolkata) and becoming what she is now, really Really take balls of titanium.
She was lonesome, without a child and I became her daughter who she started raising instead of me helping her. She gave me $30,000 one day and said: “I want you to go to Harvard.” Wow, that is some luck!
This story is very sketchy. Couple of Google searches do not turn up anything useful about her beyond the standard PRish articles. https://www.google.com/search?q=chanda+zaveri+linus+pauling https://www.google.com/search?q=chanda+zaveri+uc+santa+barba... I tried looking list of people who have received honorary doctorate degrees from Harvard but couldn't find the entire list. But it is not in the summary list they ha…
check the #3 item on FAQ. Imami does credit her for the formula of fair and handsome (which is a fairly big company in India and a famous product).
Some more details of her company
http://www.walkersresearch.com/Profilepages/A/Activor_Corp.a...
no website though http://www.activorcorporation.net/
Not sure if she's fake or true
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Except for most musicians, actors, actors turned prostitutes, lawyers who are waiters, near-homeless programmers who read HN, startup employees who got screwed by finance people, etc. ;) I'm just saying there might be other factors: like the industry you work in, your interests, govt subsidization of your industry, saturation/supply/demand, etc. Someone interested in makeup is going to have a different life than some…
> near-homeless programmers who read HN You have to screw up pretty hard to be near-homeless as a programmer in this environment.
A shiny example of a country filled with incompetent people, including the ones who frequent HN. How can a journalist be such a fool to publish something as ridiculous as this? A simple Google search can confirm that she is fake. With this article behind her back, don't be surprised if she ends up on a '50 under 50' list within a year.
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I was searching for a better word. I thought of pioneering but it was too tame, swashbuckling but it was too far out. Can you suggest something better? I mean they are go-getters and bending the boundaries of the system.
Is this actually statistically true? Wikipedia says it's the third largest metro region in India. Apart from outliers providing anecdotes, what's the reason to say people from this particular city are exceptional pioneers and "bend the boundaries"?
I was more surprised when I found out that Freddie Mercury (vocalist for Queen) spent much of his childhood between Africa & India [1], moving to the UK only after the age of 17 under trying circumstances. ~B [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mercury
A true Slumdog millionaire. A shining example of Luck, opportunity and will playing their part. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
That is why they call America the Land of Opportunity. If you work hard enough, you dreams will come true here.
The opportunity is the same in most Western countries. Nothing special about America in this respect.
The big area where the US is failing people is at the low end. Multi-generational poverty, as well as people who had 1-2 generations of moderate success dropping back to poverty.