In a 2011 interview with this correspondent, Khan laughed when reminded of his Bollywood namesake, jokingly attributing the growing traffic towards his educational website () to film buffs straying during the search for their hero - trying to get Dabangg for da buck. Although Indian-origin tech heavies such as Satya Nadella (Microsoft) and Sundar Pichai (Google) have captured the headlines for their upcoming meetings with the PM, it is the founder of the famed Khan Academy, an online education treasure trove, who will have a special one-on-one with Modi on Sunday evening. Oh yeah, did we tell you his online lectures initially came out of a bedroom closet? Salman 'Sal' Khan, he of the online tutoring fame - and not of the filmi notoriety one – has been shaking up the world of education for some years now, and his work has reached even the ears of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is meeting him during his visit to Silicon Valley this weekend. The journal Chronicle of Higher Education sees him as the pioneer of a potentially revolutionary ''College 2.0'' concept that may eventually upstage formal classroom education.
BusinessWeek magazine called him the '' Math Moses,'' and Fortune listed him among 40 hottest business stars under 40.
The billionaire tech badshah uses Sal’s online videos to tutor his children Jennifer, Rory and Phoebe. SAN FRANCISCO: He’s Bill Gates’ favorite teacher.
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