The Baton Should Not Fall (PB)

ARUN TIWARI is a missile scientist turned teacher and author and widely recognized as a pupil of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, 11th President of India, with whom he spent 33 years right from the Missile laboratory to the Presidential team as a co-author of five books. He wrote a copious APJ Abdul Kalam: A Life after Dr Kalam s death, which is considered as the most authentic account of India s advancement in technology.

Prof. Tiwari has played a pivotal role in developing India s first indigenous coronary stent in mid 1995 as a spinoff of defence technology and since then worked tirelessly for self-reliance in socially relevant technologies. He is a founder-member of Cardiac Research & Education (CARE) Foundation, established the first link of Pan-Africa e-Network connecting Indian hospitals and university with their African counterparts, and is a Platinum Jubilee Mentor of CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology. He teaches at the University of Hyderabad as an adjunct professor. (aruntiwari(dot)com)

Dr B. Soma Raju, MD, DM, PhD (h.c.) is a renowned Cardiologist and Academician. After holding Professor positions at Osmania Medical College and the Dean at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, Dr Raju established the Cardiac Research and Education (CARE) Foundation and Care Hospitals. He has been conferred with Padma Shri in 2001.