Ramnarain Ruia Autonomous College

Our Prominent Alumni

Scientist and Researchers

Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai

Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai, Baron Desai (born 10 July 1940) is a India-born naturalised British economist and former[1] Labour politician. He stood unsuccessfully for the position of Lord Speaker in the House of Lords in 2011. He has been awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award in the Republic of India, in 2008. He is a Professor Emeritus of the London School of Economics.

Nissim Kanekar

Nissim Kanekar is an Indian astrophysicist, cosmologist and a professor at National Centre for Radio Astrophysics of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.

Ajit Kembhavi

Ajit Kembhavi is an Indian astrophysicist. He is presently a Professor Emeritus at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, (IUCAA) at Pune, India

Beena Pillai

Beena Ramakrishnan Pillai is an Indian microbiologist, geneticist, and a scientist at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology.

Amrita Sule

Amrita Sule is a research scientist I in Kristin Ardlie's group in the Gene Regulation Observatory of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. She joined the Broad in November of 2021.

Public Service

Narendra Jadhav

Narendra Damodar Jadhav is an Indian economist, educationist, public policy expert, professor and writer in English, Marathi and Hindi. He is an expert on Babasaheb Ambedkar. Dr. Narendra Jadhav has completed his first term as a Member of Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Indian Parliament.

Krishna Bharadwaj

Krishna Bharadwaj was an Indian Neo-Ricardian economist mainly known for her contributions to the economic development theory and the revival of the ideas of classical economics.

Sports

Ajit Wadekar

Ajit Laxman Wadekar was an Indian international cricketer who played for the Indian national team between 1966 and 1974.

Sandeep Patil

Sandeep Patil is a former Indian cricketer, India national age group cricket manager and former Kenya national team coach, who guided the underdogs to the semi-finals of the 2003 World Cup

Nandu Natekar

Nandu M. Natekar was an Indian badminton national champion.

Lalchand Rajput

Lalchand Sitaram Rajputpronunciation is an Indian cricket coach and former cricketer who was also the former head coach of the Zimbabwe national team.

Raju Kulkarni

Rajiv Ramesh Kulkarni pronunciation is a former Indian cricketer. He played domestic cricket for Bombay as a pace and swing bowler.

Pradip Sawant

Pradip Sawant is an Indian Police Officer, currently serving as the DCP Security Branch in Mumbai Police. He is a recipient of the President's Police Medal for Meritorious Service in 2002.

Mass Media and Literature

Arun Sarnaik

Arun Shankarrao Sarnaik was an Indian actor and singer from Kolhapur, Maharashtra.

Dilip Prabhavalkar

Dilip Prabhavalkar (born 4 August 1944) is an Indian Marathi actor, director, playwright and author. He has a career spanning over four decades in Hindi and Marathi theatre, television and movies. He was awarded the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi in the 2006 Hindi film Lage Raho Munna Bhai.

Sulekha Talwalkar

Sulekha Talwalkar is a Marathi film, television and theatre actress working in Maharashtra.

Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande

Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande is a Hindustani classical music vocalist from Mumbai. She belongs to the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana tradition.

Vidyadhar Vyas

Pandit Vidyadhar Vyas is an Indian Hindustani vocalist, and a contemporary exponent of the Paluskar style of North Indian classical singing

Vidyadhar Oke

Vidyadhar Oke is an Indian doctor, musicologist, harmonium player, and astrology consultant,

Shruti Sadolikar

Shruti Sadolikar Katkar is an Indian classical singer of the khyal style in the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana. She is a recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Hindustani vocal music

Swati Chitnis

Swati Chitnis is an Indian Bollywood actress who works in both the film and television industry.

Bharati Achrekar

Bharati Achrekar is an Indian Marathi and Hindi theatre, film and television actress.She has been a part of several films in Indian cinema and was celebrated as Mrs Wagle from the doordarshan show,

Sandipan Deb

Sandipan Deb is an Indian journalist and writer. He has been the managing editor of Outlook, the editor of The Financial Express and was the founder-editor of Outlook Money

Ila Arab Mehta

Ila Arab Mehta is a Gujarati novelist and story writer from Gujarat, India.

Nikhil Wagle

Nikhil Wagle started his media career in 1977 as a freelance reporter. He later joined Dinank, a Marathi newsweekly, in Mumbai. In 1979, when the editor of Dinank resigned, the publisher asked 19-year-old Wagle to become the managing editor. Wagle later became the editor-in-chief of Dinank.

Dilip Chitre

Dilip Purushottam Chitre was one of the foremost Indian poets and critics to emerge in the post Independence India.

Nishikant Kamat

Nishikant Kamat was an Indian filmmaker and actor. His debut film, Dombivali Fast earned him accolades in Marathi cinema, as it went on to become the biggest Marathi film of the year.

Sonali Bendre

Sonali Bendre is an Indian actress primarily known for her work in Hindi and Telugu films. She did modelling assignments prior to making her acting debut with Aag (1994), which won her the Filmfare Award for New Face of the Year and Screen Award for Best Female Debut.

Sulekha Talwalkar

Sulekha Talwalkar is a Marathi film, television and theatre actress working in Maharashtra.

Priya Bapat

Priya Bapat is an Indian actress who mainly works in Marathi films. She is best known for her roles in the movies Kaksparsh and Aamhi Doghi, for which she won the Best Actress award at the Screen Awards in 2013

Aditi Sarangdhar

Aditi Sarangdhar is an Indian actress She worked in many Marathi movies and series. She is famous for the role of Rama Chaudhary in serial Vadalvaat and Malvika Khanvilkar in serial Yeu Kashi Tashi Me Nandayla.

Sanjay Narvekar

Sanjay Narvekar is an Indian actor who works in Hindi and Marathi cinema. He mainly is a Marathi actor, who works in TV shows and films.

Adinath Kothare

Adinath Kothare is an Indian actor, producer, and director, who predominantly works in Marathi films. His directorial debut film, 'Paani,' won the 'National Film Award for Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation'

Shraddha Das

Shraddha Das is an Indian actress and model who predominantly appears in Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, and Kannada language films.

Sagar Ballary

Sagar Ballary is an Indian film director, most known for his films, like Bheja Fry (2007), Bheja Fry 2 (2011) and Bhatukli (Marathi) (2014).

Kranti Redkar

Kranti Redkar is an actress in Marathi films. She is a television and stage actress, known for her roles in Marathi theater and Marathi film and television

Pari Telang

Pari Telang is an Indian actress and voice artist who worked in several Marathi as well as Hindi films, television and theatres.

Spruha Joshi

Spruha Joshi is an Indian television, film, and theatre actress, the television anchor who works in the Marathi film and television industry. She is also a poet and lyricist for films

Isha Koppikar

Isha Koppikar is an Indian actress, model and politician who has appeared in Hindi films, along with Tamil films. She has also featured in several Telugu, Kannada and Marathi films.

Vaidehi Parashurami

Vaidehi Parashurami is an Indian actress. She made her debut with Mahesh Kothare's movie Ved Lavi Jeeva in 2010

Shilpa Tulaskar

Shilpa Tulaskar (born 10 March 1977)[citation needed] is an Indian actress who has acted in Marathi films and Hindi television shows. She recently portrayed the role of Rajnandini in Zee Marathi's drama Tula Pahate Re and also the character of Sujata, mother of the male lead Atharva, in Jana Na Dil Se Door on Star Plus.

Mitali Mayekar

Mitali Mayekar is an Indian Marathi television and film actress. At the age of 13, She debut in the acting industry with Irrfan Khan's movie Billu in 2009.

Hruta Durgule

Hruta Durgule (born 12 September 1993) is an Indian television and film actress. Widely known for portraying lead characters on Marathi-television, she is the recipient of several accolades including Sanskruti Kaladarpan & Maharashtra Times Sanmaan Awards and has established herself as one of the most popular Marathi television actresses.

Aakash Dabhade

Aakash Dabhade is an Indian actor working in the Indian film industry. He is known as a versatile actor with great comic timing, expressions and dancing skills.

Amitabh Bhattacharya

Amitabh Bhattacharya is an Indian lyricist and playback singer who works in Bollywood films.