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In April 2008, Reliance stirred up the imagination amongst Indians, when it agreed to send up to five Indians on a full scholarship to Stanford Graduate School of Business, if selected by the business school. This generous scholarship offered nearly $83,000 to those five chosen to be Reliance Dhirubhai Fellows who are committed to returning to develop India. Business school has a big party element. [...]

When the first scholarships came out in 2008, two women and three men were recipients of the first scholarship. Four IITans and one BITSian. There are no patterns to those chosen. Quick updates Aditi Pany was the first woman President of the Students’ Union at BITS Pilani, first President of the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership worked at social enterprise TARAhaat, and later was named a [...]

Shawn Agyeman was down on his luck last fall, having just lost his job as a research assistant at the University of Pittsburgh, his alma mater. With looming monthly student loan payments of around $200 a month hanging over his head, the recent college graduate was starting to worry about how he’d meet his debt obligations, fearful that creditors would harass his parents?who co-signed his loans?if [...]