Chandrakant sampat family
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meet Chandrakant Sampat
meet Chandrakant Sampat
“to be a good investor all one has to do is dream.”
the advice sounds cliched, but Chandrakant Sampat inspired an entire generation of investors in India with that line.
informally, he has been called India's first value investor. late Chandrakant Sampat was born in a Gujarati family. in the 1950s, he decided to leave his family business to invest in independent India’s fledgling stock market.
Sampat’s decision worked well in his favour and he could ride India’s growth story from its earliest days.
the origin story
“i got into the markets because it was relatively simple. all you needed was a cheque book and a pen. I identified opportunities out of listed issues,” Sampat said.
his investment philosophy was really simple. he would only buy those companies“that are in a business that even fools can understand, have very little debt, have free cash flows or do not have much capital expenditure”.
it comes as no surprise that he invested majorly in consumer goods companies and made his fortune by investing in FMCG giant
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Sampat Pal Devi
Indian activist
Sampat Pal Devi is an Indian social activist from the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh, North India.[1] She is founder of the Gulabi Gang, an Uttar Pradesh-based social organisation, works for women welfare and empowerment.[2][3] She was participant of Colors TV's reality show Bigg Boss 6.[4]
Background
Sampat Pal Devi founded the Gulabi Gang to further the cause of women's rights.[5] It developed into an organised women's movement with as many as 270,000 members spread over several districts in Uttar Pradesh. The women wear Gulabi (pink) saris and arm themselves with bamboo sticks, which they use whenever they come up against violent resistance.[6][7]
Pal described her early life in an autobiography written with the collaboration of the French journalist Anne Berthod.[8] According to a BBC report, Banda district is a “highly caste-ridden, feudalistic and male dominated society. Dowry demands and domestic and sexual violence are common. Locals say it
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Balaji Sampath
Indian educationist and social activist
Balaji Sampath (born 17 January 1973)[1] is an Indian educationist, scientist[2], and the founder and secretary of Association for India's Development - India chapter,[3][4] an India-based non-profit NGO that conducts science teaching and primary school programs for children to aid their educational development.[5] He is also the founder and CEO of Ahaguru, an educational online coaching startup that provides training courses on different subjects online.[6][7][8] He is also an author of science books for primary and higher level education.[2]
Personal life
Balaji was born in Chennai, India on 17 January 1973 into a family where both of his parents were government workers.[1][9] Because his parents were often transferred to different locations for their government jobs, as a child Balaji was exposed to a number of schools across India. He had difficulty in understanding scientific subjects due to "ineff
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