Forbes India
Feature article
“Move Over Life’s Coaches — The Trillion-Dollar Excellence Installation Industry is Now in India.”
A catalogue of mainstream editorial features, government and institutional recognition, broadcast and long-form coverage of Antano Solar John and Harini Ramachandran — built honestly, with wire-distributed press releases held separately from independent editorial.
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Forbes India’s own headline names the category we are building. The single strongest editorial validation of the “Excellence Installation industry” framing.
Editorial pieces — not wire releases — from India’s mainstream press, dated and linked. Forbes India and The New Indian Express anchor the modern category claim; YourStory, The Week, Business World and Hello Entrepreneurs trace the longer arc.
The strongest single credential in the catalogue is not press, it is government recognition. And the strongest piece of evidence that EIT is now a discipline being externally adopted is the practitioner-level award sweep.
“For the unprecedented work they have been doing to help people change the trajectory of their lives.”
Conferred on Antano Solar John & Harini Ramachandran. Per coverage, 20 Excellence Installation Specialists also received appreciation letters and saplings from B.L. Meena, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. Photo evidence is on the founders’ Facebook page.
The award itself is independently verified by the Ministry official named in the citation. Only the press coverage of the award was wire-distributed — see § Honesty below. The award is the institutional anchor; the news carrying it is the social proof.
Forbes India naming the industry was the founder-level signal. This is the practitioner-level signal — six certified team members winning industry-recognised awards in six separate categories. It is the strongest single piece of evidence that EIT is a discipline being externally adopted, not a personal brand.
Verify: bwwellbeingworld →Antano Solar John & Harini Ramachandran featured in the UNICEF + The George Institute for Global Health + India Health Accelerator Programme (IHAP) showcase of innovations for psycho-social support of frontline healthcare workers during COVID-19. Excellence Installation Technology selected alongside 9 other innovations for immediate correction of underlying patterns causing psychological stress in healthcare workers.
Most items below are clippings from the founders’ own media-releases page. They appear to be genuine print clippings but most lack live original URLs and are reproduced as PDFs / images on the EIT site. The 2011 New Indian Express Edex piece is the earliest mainstream national press located.
The 2011 framing aligns with the modeling-extraordinary-capability methodology — useful for the lineage argument and the founders chronology.
| Outlet | Topic / Headline | Date | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indian Express “The Excel Code” |
Feature on Excellence Installations for lasting transformations. Print feature, PDF reproduction hosted on EIT’s own site. Original Indian Express URL not located. | 2018 | PDF → |
| Mumbai Mirror Times of India group |
“NLP techniques from home for better life.” Print article (e-paper). Link rot likely — TOI e-paper IDs rotate. | 11 Sep 2015 | e-paper → |
| Times Ascent Times of India |
“How NLP helps in corporate world.” Print article (e-paper). | 27 May 2015 | e-paper → |
| Times of India NIE Newspaper in Education |
NLP in education. Print article. Listed on excellenceinstallation.com/media-releases. | 23 Jun 2015 | URL not on source page |
| Afternoon Despatch & Courier | Full-page interview. Reproduction on excellenceinstallation.com (image only). | Date not captured | Image only |
| Deccan Chronicle | “Close The Deal Like a Pro” event coverage; multiple NLP feature stories. Print. | 21 Jun / 28 Sep / 24 Apr 2015 | URLs not provided |
| Economic Times | Life coaching business trends — mentions School of Excellence within a wider sector story. Old ET URL; link rot likely. | 30 May 2014 | ET → |
| Business Standard | “Life coaching business to cross Rs 1,000 cr mark in FY15.” News feature (PTI). Sector story including School of Excellence. | 30 May 2014 | BS → |
| Thozhi Magazine Kungumam group |
Singer Megha (Harini) cover story — music journey & NLP. Tamil women’s magazine. Print only. | Date not captured | Print only |
| Dinamani | Harini Ramachandran interview on NLP, mental health & education. Tamil daily. Print only. | Date not captured | Print only |
| Makkal Kural / Theekadir / Dinabhoomi | School of Excellence expansion coverage. Tamil regional press. Print only. | Dates not captured | Print only |
| Malai Murasu / Andra Jyoti / Sakshi | uPwithNLP & NLP Bliss program coverage. Regional South Indian press. Print only. | Dates not captured | Print only |
| Trinity Mirror / News Today | Program announcements and expansion news. Chennai English dailies. Print only. | Dates not captured | Print only |
Five broadcast features across NDTV, regional Tamil GECs, and a US local station. Most original broadcast pages are not online; YouTube re-uploads and coverage pages on the founders’ own site are the surviving record.
| Channel | Show / Topic | Date | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| NDTV Hindu Confirmed |
“Enterprising Entrepreneurs” — episode featuring Harini Ramachandran & Antano Solar John (Part 1 & Part 2). Host: Sanjay Pinto. NLP & Excellence Installation. | ~2014 |
Part 1 → Part 2 → |
| GTV Washington DC area, USA |
Same broadcast slot in which GTV interviewed the Prime Minister of India immediately before Antano & Harini. International-market broadcast (USA). Direct guest-adjacency with a sitting head of government — frame as “the station that interviewed the PM and then us.” Founder-confirmed 2026-05-18. | ~2017 | YouTube → |
| BBC Asian Network Ashanti Omkar · recorded at London |
International Tier 1 broadcaster. Harini Ramachandran featured on the Ashanti Omkar show, BBC Asian Network. The strongest single international broadcast credential in the catalog. | — | bbc.co.uk → |
One own-channel podcast credential. No third-party / external-host podcast guest appearances were located in this scan — a clear “expected but not found” gap given the founders’ public profile. This is being addressed in the 18-month PR plan.
Kept as a credential anchor — not classified as third-party press.
Adjacent credibility — a TEDx, a co-authored IEEE journal paper, a Packt-published book, and a public endorsement from Dr. John Grinder. The TEDx is intentionally deprioritised for site use — a single small-university TEDx undersells the current scale of work.
Verified, real TEDx event. Watch on YouTube →
Pre-dates EIT work but establishes technical credentials.
Long-form publishing credibility independent of EIT.
Industry-figure endorsement rather than press, but materially relevant to credibility.
Built on WebSearch + WebFetch. Nothing fabricated. · This catalogue was assembled on 2026-05-18 using direct URL verification. Items confirmed by direct fetch are marked “Verified.” Several large-media outlets (BW, YourStory, Sakshi Post) return HTTP 403 to automated fetches but load normally in a browser — their existence is established by index pattern. URLs are re-verified for link rot every six months; new coverage is added quarterly.
Editorial coverage matters. What matters more is the longitudinal data on 3,000 directly-measured participants across five axes over eight years.