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Premlata Poonia grew up among big dreams. Her father was an educator at a government school who dreamt of transforming rural India through education. He insisted that she receive the best education available. But as part of a farming family with deep rural roots, that education did not come without sacrifice.

Navneetha’s drive is extraordinary and rare, but the story of his family’s sacrifice is, sadly, common across India. Many Indian families cannot afford to educate all of their children, putting them in the difficult situation of deciding which children will go to school and which will work.

India is home to roughly 370 million blue-collar workers, many of them residents of rural areas where poverty rates are high, literacy rates are low, and technology isn’t readily available.

At the age when most boys play cricket, he made toy electric cars from scratch. His passion for electric cars took him to the University of Michigan and thereafter to Stanford University. He returned to India to found the REVAi Electric Car Company in 1994—today, Mahindra Reva. He is widely regarded as the pioneer of electric cars in India.

Cities…much maligned and much lusted after. What is it about cities that makes them hotbeds of chaos, pollution, and decay, and at the same time centers of innovation, creativity, and wealth creation?