Bill Gates is the founder of Microsoft. He is a billionaire. In 1975, he dropped out of Harvard University in his second year when he was nineteen. ‘When I dropped out,’ Gates said, ‘I told my dad I’d be back.’
Kolkata: The city that bred Nobel laureates
Kolkata is often called the city of ‘bhadralok’, or ‘noble people’ – a city that has been home to educational elites for more than a century. Remarkably, it is also the city that has bred five Nobel laureates. Sir Ronald Ross, an Indian-born British doctor, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1902. While working …