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Meet Your National Bike Summit Speaker: Robin Mazumder
The National Bike Summit theme, SHIFT: Accelerating the Movement to Build a Bicycle Friendly America for Everyone, should inspire you to question; What does a Bicycle Friendly America look like to me?; and How can we man changes on the local, state, and national level to work toward this goal? At this year’s Summit, learn different cycling-related approaches to impact your community. One speaker at the Summit, urban scientist Robin Mazumder, will connect his enthusiasm for cycling with his research on urban design to inspire a future that accommodates the human experience.
Photo by Peter Lee
Mazumder’s confident and charismatic nature emanated over the phone as we discussed his love of cycling. Canadian-born to parents from India and Bangladesh with ties to a family-run bicycle import company, Mazumder was lucky to learn the value of of cycling at a young age. As a child, he spent time riding around with f
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When Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw became managing director for Biocon India, she referred to the business in newspaper ads as a “multinational company.” What the ad did not mention, however, was that Biocon India was operating out of her home garage.
With just two employees, a master brewer’s certificate, and her father’s blessing, Mazumdar-Shaw began a business specializing in industrial enzymes for food and textile makers that now reaches around the globe.
Becoming a mästare Brewer
As a child growing up in Bangalore, India, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw was aware of her country’s national pride in its contributions to chemistry and related sciences. She was also well aware of cultural norms that often limited the social mobility of women. Her father was brewmaster at United Breweries.
With her family’s encouragement but some trepidation, Mazumdar-Shaw attended Ballarat University in Australia and earned the title of master brewer. After returning to India and facing difficulties in gettin
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Nishat Majumdar
Bangladeshi mountain climber
Nishat Mazumdar (Bengali: নিশাত মজুমদার) became the first Bangladeshi woman to scale Mount Everest,[1] with the help of three Sherpas - Lakpa Sherpa, Pemba Dorje Sherpa, Mingma Sherpa and a bigger team led by another Bangladeshi mountaineer M. A. Muhit.[2] She reached the northern side of the mountain with the team on 19 May , six days after which internationally acclaimed Bangladeshi mountaineer Wasfia Nazreen reached the summit from Nepal side independently.
Biography
[edit]Mazumdar was born on 5 January , into a family of Majumdars in Ramganj, Noakhali District (now in Lakshmipur District), Bangladesh. Her father, Abdul Mannan Majumdar, was a businessman. Nishat was the second out of the four children of Abdul Mannan Majumdar and Ashura Majumdar. She received both bachelor's and master's degrees in accounting from Dhaka City College.[3] Nishat is married to Rafikul Islam.[4]