Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy Inventor, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist
I am starting this blog as I move into the phase of being an angel investor. It is my ambition, God willing, to replicate Y Combinator model (www.ycombinator.com) in India.
Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy (Bengali: প্রফুল্ল চন্দ্র রায়) was a Bengali academician, a chemist and entrepreneur. He was born on August 2, 1861 in the village Raruli-Katipara in Khulna District (now in Bangladesh) and died on June 16, 1944. He was the founder of Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, India’s first pharmaceutical company. He is the author of A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century (1902).
He was mentor to prominent Indian scientists like Meghnad Saha.
He is my idol in sense of being a
- Scholar
- Scientist
- Entrepreneur
- Mentor
- Philanthropist
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