2025’s Most Disruptive Icons: Leading with Purpose and Power

Time is a dressmaker, stitching together the fragments of experience into garments of wisdom. For Shailendra Singh, each thread of his journey has been carefully woven from the fields of rural India to the corridors of agricultural innovation. Early on, he recognized that farmers often seen as passive beneficiaries of technology were in fact the resilient architects of sustainable change. Their struggles with soil degradation, input costs, and uncertain weather patterns revealed both the fragility and the strength of India’s food systems.