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Special Report
25 Ideas To Change The World
Luminaries take on problems from poverty to violence to finance.
The potential of emerging markets. The power of evolutionary psychology. The risk of the Gulf oil spill. In the June 4 issue of Forbes India 25 great minds pinpointed global problems and proposed solutions. After you read their proposals, leave a comment with your own world-changing idea. (We'll publish the best ones.) Let the innovating begin.-- Hana R. Alberts
Ravi Narain, National Stock Exchange
David Livingstone Smith, Cognitive Scientist
Alain de Botton, Philosopher
Deepak Parekh, Chairman, Housing Development Finance Corporation
Dan Ariely, Behavioral Economist
Tarun Khanna, Harvard Business School Professor
Mriganka Sur, Neuroscientist
Padmasree Warrior, Chief Technology Officer, Cisco Systems
Thomas Davenport, Consultant
Sundeep Waslekar, Global Governance Advisor
Anand Mahindra, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Mahindra & Mahindra
Tony Fernandes, CEO, Air Asia
Abhijit Banerjee, Development Economist
Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia
Arun Maira, Policymaker
Abhay Bang, Community Health Advocate
Bianca Jagger, Activist
Raghav Bahl, Journalist
Milton Glaser, Graphic Designer
Muhammed Yunus, Microfinance Pioneer
Yasheng Huang, MIT Professor
Jockin Arputham, Poverty Activist
George Schaller, Biologist
Bjorn Lomborg, Environmentalist
Soli Sorabjee, Former Attorney General