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American Innovation Award for Indian-American….

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Washington: A renowned Indian-American inventor at IBM, Rangaswamy Srinivasan, has been nominated by U.S. President Barack Obama for the prestigious National Medal of Technology and Innovation.

Along with Srinivasan, President Obama named 12 eminent researchers as recipients of the National Medal of Science and 10 extraordinary inventors for the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honours bestowed by the U.S. government upon scientists, engineers, and inventors.

The recipients will receive their awards at a White House ceremony in early 2013.

In 1981, Srinivasan discovered that an ultraviolet excimer laser could etch living tissues in a precise manner with no thermal damage to the surrounding area. He named the phenomenon Ablative Photo Decomposition (APD). According to his profile on the Hall of Fame website, Srinivasan and his co-inventors ran tests using the excimer laser and a conventional, green laser to etch organic matter. They discovered that while the green laser produced rough incisions, damaged by charring from the heat, the excimer laser produced clean, neat incisions.

In 1983, he collaborated with an ophthalmic surgeon to develop APD to etch the cornea. It resulted in a procedure to correct vision known today as Lasik surgery. Since the introduction of Lasik, millions of people have taken advantage of this procedure that reduces dependency on corrective lenses.

Inducted into the U.S. “Inventor Hall of Fame” in 2002, Srinivasan has spent 30 years at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center. He has 21 U.S. patents under his name and received both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in science from the University of Madras, in 1949 and 1950. He earned doctorate in physical chemistry at the University of southern California in 1956.

“I am proud to honour these inspiring American innovators,” President Obama said, adding: “They represent the ingenuity and imagination that has long made this nation great, and they remind us of the enormous impact a few good ideas can have when these creative qualities are unleashed in an entrepreneurial environment.”

The National Medal of Technology and Innovation was created by statute in 1980 and is administered for the White House by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Patent and Trademark Office. The award recognises those who have made lasting contributions to America’s competitiveness and quality of life and helped strengthen the nation’s technological workforce.

The National Medal of Science was created in 1959 and is administered for the White House by the National Science Foundation.

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Richard Branson to Serve as Stewardess of Air Asia !!!!!

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British billionaire Richard Branson will finally wear a red skirt and serve as a stewardess on Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia in May after losing a Grand Prix bet with the founder of the airline.

Virgin boss Branson and AirAsia chief executive Tony Fernandes had agreed in 2010 that whichever of their teams (then Virgin and Lotus) finished lower in the constructors’ championship in their debut season, the losing owner would serve on the other’s airline.

Branson lost as Lotus finished 10th and Virgin 12th, but the trip was postponed in early 2011 after he injured himself while skiing.

Fernandes said Branson had contacted him to honour his bet.

‘He will be an Airasia stewardess in May on Airasia. 2 years late but main point he hasn’t forgotten,’ Fernandes tweeted.

Fernandes had previously said that Branson would strut down the aisle to offer coffee, tea or other food and beverages to guests on a special 13-hour Kuala Lumpur to London flight.

The tickets for the flight would be auctioned off for charity.

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Unsung Heroes of India….

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There are people who contribute to the society greatly but are seldom known. They quietly do their bit without expecting anything in return. These extraordinary and selfless people bring meaning to hundreds of lives. Here are the unsung heroes of the nation, as listed by Tenzin Yangdon for Yahoo news.

 

Irom Sharmila: 
Irom Sharmila is also known as the “Iron Lady of Manipur”. She is a civil rights activist and a political activist. Sharmila is an example of a woman’s perseverance. Since 2 November 2000, she has been on a hunger strike to demand that the Indian government abolish the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), which is a cause for violence in Manipur and other parts of northeast. Not having eaten food or water for more than 500 weeks, she has been called “the world’s longest hunger striker”. She is on a continuous hunger strike for past 12 years. She has certainly shown the world the choice to live without fear in one’s own homeland.

 
Ashok Khemka:
Ashok Khemka is another unsung hero on the list. He is widely known as ‘Haryana’s most shoved about civil servant’ and was the one who blew the whistle on Vadra’s DLF deal. He is an example of an honest, dedicated IAS officer. He chose the life of an IAS officer instead of a comfortable life that usually accompanies an IIT graduate. In his 21 years in service, Khemka was transferred an enormous 43 times.

 
In 2008, Robert Vadra had purchased a 3.5 acre plot for Rs 7.5 crore, which he then sold to realty major DLF for Rs 58 crore. On October 8, Khemka questioned this relationship between Vadra and DLF and sought a list of Vadra’s land deals. But, instead of the list he got a transfer order.

 


Akhil Gogoi: 
Akhil is a peasant leader and an RTI activist from Assam.  Akhil came to national attention after he was awarded the Shanmugam Manjunath Integrity Award in 2008 for his persistent fight against corruption and attempts to bring transparency in the government. He was awarded the national Right to Information (RTI) Award by Public Cause Research Foundation in 2010 for his role in exposing the 1.25 crore scam in Sampoorna Gram Rozgar Yojna (SGRY) and Rs 60 lakh scam in the Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) in Golaghat district of Assam by using the RTI Act. Akhil donated the entire sum of  2lakhs of the Award to his organization KMSS.

 
Babar Ali: 
Babar Ali is a student and teacher from Murshidabad in West Bengal. He was called the “youngest headmaster in the world” by BBC in 2009, at the age of sixteen. Babar, a student himself, enrolled at the government-run Raj Govinda School in Berhampore. In the afternoons he would teach students in a school he founded in his parents’ back yard in Murshidabad. He began teaching at the age of nine, mostly as a game, and then decided to continue teaching other children. The school continues to be run as an outdoor school and has ten teachers including Babar Ali himself. All of them are students at schools or colleges and volunteer to teach at the school. There are 800 children learning at the school and education there is completely free for the poor. In 2009, Babar won a prize for his work from the programme Real Heroes Award of the Indian English news channel CNN-IBN.

 


Jyotsna Sitling: 
Jyotsna Sitling is the first female tribalIndian Forest Service (IFS) officer.Jyotsna is a green warrior who has spent her life restoring the eco system, from cleaning up the hills to creating jobs for the locals. With more than 25 years in the IFS, she has cleaned, planted and restored the environment. She is well-known for restoring The Valley of Flowers National Park. The hills of the Nanda Devi Biospherehad turned into a heap of plastic littered by pilgrims and Jyotsana took it upon herself to clean the entire region involving the locals. The area was later declared as a World Heritage Site in 2005 by UNESCO.

 
Kulandei Francis: 
Another unsung hero on the list is Kulandei Francis. He is an activist, social worker and the founder of the NGO Integrated Village Development Project in Tamil Nadu. Francis has been working diligently to improve the living conditions in rural India. His organization began small with a night school and a first-aid centre in Krishnagiri. Over the years, IVDP has established over 8,200 self-help groups and has empowered over 100,000 women, giving families a stable livelihood. He was also one of six recipients of the Magsaysay Award this year for “his profound faith in community energies, and his sustained programs in pursuing the holistic economic empowerment of thousands of women and their families in rural India”.

 


P Kalayanasundaram: 
P Kalayanasundaram is from Tamil Naduand is a gold medalist librarian, who not only dedicated his life to the poor but also donated his salary, every single month for the 35 years that he was working. The 60-year-old had no worries to earn a living doing tedious jobs. He is the Founder of ‘Paalam’ an NGO that he set up. The organization acts as a connection between those who wish to donate and those who need the donations.

Anand Kumar:
It isn’t an easy job to clear an IIT entrance exam. But the Ramanujan School of Mathematics in Bihar changed this notion. This year 27 made it to the IITs of the 30 students trained there. The coaching centre only teaches students from the lower income families. Students have to pass a competitive test to find a place in Super 30. The selected students devote an entire year to study and students receive food and accommodation for this duration. The institute does not accept any donation from anyone and is run chiefly by the fees collected from students who can afford to pay.
Anand Kumar, a mathematician started the coaching centre as he knew how hard it was to get good education if you are poor. Kumar gained admission at the Cambridge University but had to give up the dream of studying due to his poor financial state.


Chhavi Rajawat: 
Chhavi Rajawat makes it to the list as well. This young MBA degree holder chose to work with rural India and at 32 she is the youngest woman sarpanch of her village Soda, near Jaipur. Her aim is to make her village 100 percent educated. Chhavi also works at her family home-turned-hotel called Kailrugji and has also set up a horse-riding academy in Jaipur.

P Narayanan Krishnan: 
Madurai-based Narayanan Krishnanstarted the Akshaya Trust, an NGO in 2002. The trust has been a blessing for many homeless, ailing and hungry people.  In the first year of commencement, Krishnan used his own savings to feed around 30 people. Ever since, he’s cooked and served meals to around two million people. Presently, a shelter home is being built to home those in need of shelter. Realizing that there were many Indians living overseas who wanted to contribute to the cause, Krishnan founded Akshaya USA in 2012. The foundation supports the homeless, mentally ill, elderly and the disabled.

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6 Indian Americans in Top Global Thinkers List ….

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“Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.” Freedom of speech and expression is something which we all boast about, but only few personalities have shown real courage in taking their ideas and thoughts to the public. Foreign Policy magazine recently came up with a list of the top 100 “Global Thinkers” and six Indian Americans were successful in making it to the list.

 
Narayana Kocherlakota

 

Narayana Kocherlakota, an economist who serves as the president of Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis came 10thin the list.

Kocherlakota made a public announcement in the month of September, asking the Federal Reserve Bank to reduce the interest rates to zero until unemployment falls below 5.5 percent, reports Foreign Policy.

Kocherlakota was appointed to the post of president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank in the year 2008. Prior to this, he was a member of the Minneapolis Fed’s Research staff and also worked as a Research consultant for the Bank.

Born in a Telugu Brahmin family, Kocherlakota holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1987 and an A.B. in mathematics from Princeton in 1983.

Ruchir Sharma

Ruchir Sharma is a Managing Director and the head of the Emerging MarketsEquity team at Morgan StanleyInvestment Management.

Sharma holds great passion towards writing and is the author of the economic bestseller ‘Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles’ (Breakout Nations). His outstanding contribution to the intellectual debate in 2012 and his book made him eligible for this recognition. Breakout Nations ”debunks the conventional wisdom that the emerging markets of the last decade will continue to drive global growth in the next one’’, reports Foreign Policy.

Sharma worked as a contributing editor with Newsweek earlier and his op-eds used to appear in prestigious publications such as The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The New York Times and Foreign Affairs. Apart from this, he also writes columns on global financial markets for The Economic Times.

Sharma completed his graduation from Shri Ram College of Commerce in Delhi.

 

 

Raj Chetty

 
Raj Chetty is a professor of economics atHarvard University and he also serves the post of the director of the Lab for Economic Applications and Policy at the university. He was a former professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Chetty has been successful in overturning several age-old assumptions related to economics and ensured a place for him at the U.S. policy debate, by discussing everything from unemployment benefits to tax breaks.

Chetty, a 2012 MacArthur Fellow has published numerous papers in prestigious journals, such as American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Journal of Political Economy. He was listed as one of the top 8 young economists in the world by The Economist in the year 2008 and he is one among the most cited young economists in the world.

Chetty holds a graduation in arts from Harvard University and he also received a Ph.D from the same university in the year 2003.

 

 

Raghuram Rajan

 
Raghuram Rajan is an economist who serves as the Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India. He also works as Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago and as a visiting professor for the World Bank, Federal Reserve Board, and Swedish Parliamentary Commission.

In the year 2005 Rajan delivered a controversial paper “Has Financial Development Made the World Riskier?’, in which he criticized the  financial sector and “argued that disaster might loom.” Even though Rajan received negative response from everyone at that time, his views were seen as prophetic after the 2008 economic crisis.

Rajan, who took charge as the Chief Economic advisor few months before is in the running for the next RBI Governor of India.

Rajan holds a degree in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi, Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from IIM Ahmedabad and a PhD in management from MIT.

Vivek Wadhwa

Vivek Wadhwa is a technology entrepreneur and academic.

Wadhwa plays a prominent role in instituting start-up visa, which will help entrepreneurs with proven job creation and company size obtain long-term visas. According to Wadhwa if this movement is not executed skilled immigrants will be gone. He also adds, ‘’they’ll be back home building the next Googles and Intels in other countries, and we will wake up five years from now and wonder how we let this happen.”

Wadhwa was honoured with the title “leader of tomorrow” by Forbes magazine in the year 1999 and he received the “2012 Outstanding American by Choice” award by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Wadhwa holds a B.A. in Computing Studies from the University of Canberra, in Australia, and an MBA from New York University.  He is founding president of the Carolinas chapter of The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TIE), a non-profit global network intended to foster entrepreneurship.

Ricken Patel

Ricken Patel is co-founder and executive director of Avaaz.org, a global civic organization launched in January 2007 that promotes activism on issues such as climate change, human rights, animal rights, corruption, poverty, and conflict. The mission of the organization is to “close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want”.

With this new movement, Patel has established a model for advancing human rights and democracy. He worked as an analyst in conflict zones such as Afghanistan and Sierra Leone and his organization took inspiration from the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org.

Patel was voted “Ultimate Gamechanger in Politics” in the year 2009 by the Huffington Post and was named a Young Global Leader by the Davos World Economic Forum.

He studied PPE (Politics, Philosophy, Economics) at Balliol College, Oxford University and holds a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University.

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10 Renowned Tamilians in America!!!!!

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The outstanding achievements of Indian Americans in various sectors ranging from business and academics to media and politics make us proud of our rich Indian heritage and culture. It is not a matter of surprise to note that there is an increasing number of Tamilians representing our country in the U.S.Indra Nooyi

Indra Nooyi, an Indian-origin American executive who hails from Chennai is the current Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo. She was one among the highest paid CEO’s in America, according to a recent survey report. Nooyi’s name appeared in the list of 50 women to watch in 2007 and 2008, according to a survey conducted by Wall Street Journal. She was one among Time’s list of 100 most influential people in the world and she also bagged the top position of most powerful woman in business, by a ranking done by Forbes (2009 and 2010).

According to Nooyi, ”Just because you are CEO, don’t think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I’ve never forgotten that.”

Nooyi joined the company PepsiCo in the year 1994 and was appointed to the post of CFO in 2001.She rose to the position of CEO in 2007 and has been contributing a major share in the development of the company for more than a decade.

Nooyi completed graduation from Madras Christian College and post graduation in Management from Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta. She began her career as a product manager at Johnson & Johnson.

Meyya MeyyappanMeyya Meyyappan is the Chief Scientist for Exploration Technology at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA. Until June 2006, he served as the Director of the Center for Nanotechnology at NASA Ames.

Meyyappan has authored or co-authored over 225 articles in peer- reviewed journals and made over 200 Invited/Keynote/Plenary Talks in nanotechnology subjects across the world. His research interests include carbon nanotubes, graphene, and various inorganic nanowires, their growth and characterization, and application development in chemical and biosensors, instrumentation, electronics and optoelectronics.  He has worked to include nanotechnology products into space missions as well as transferring technologies to industry for commercialization.

Meyyappan is a founding member of the Interagency Working Group on Nanotechnology (IWGN) established by the US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).  The IWGN was responsible for putting together the US National Nanotechnology Initiative.

For his sustained contributions to nanotechnology, Meyyappan was inducted into the Silicon Valley Engineering Council Hall of Fame in February 2009.

Padma Lakshmi

Padma Lakshmi is a well-known internationally accepted model, who was the favourite of top designers such as Emanuel Ungaro, Ralph Lauren and Alberta Ferratti. She started her modeling career when she was just 18 and has appeared on the covers of many promonent magazines like RedBook, Vogue India, FHM, Cosmopolitan, L’Officiel India, Asian Woman, Avenue, Industry Magazine, Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, Town & Country and Newsweek.

She says, “I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York. I’m the first one to admit that I was a novelty.’’

Along with modeling, Lakshmi started hosting cookery shows such as Padma’s Passport and Top Chef and she also published many cookery books.”Easy Exotic”, her first cookbook was named as the Best First Book in the year 1999 at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards conducted at Versailles. She was also nominated for Emmy Award as “Outstanding Host on a Reality-Competition in 2006.

Padma is basically from an Iyengar Brahmin family based in Chennai, who did her schooling and higher education in U.S. She completed graduation in Theatre Arts from Clark University in Massachusetts.

Kamala HarrisKamala Harris is the current attorney General of California who was featured as one of ‘America’s 20 Most Powerful Women’, by Newsweek. Prior to this, she served as the District Attorney of San Francisco for six years, from 2004 to 2010.

Kamala is the first female to be elected as the attorney general of California and the first Asian-American to serve this prestigious post .

During her tenure as the District Attorney of San Francisco, Kamala fought against violence, crime and she was also behind the implementation of tough gun charging policies. Moreover, she focused on child assault, public integrity and environmental crimes. She increased the conviction charges for serious and violent crimes and extended helping hand to the victims of crime and their family members.

Born to a Tamil mother and African- American father, Kamala was bought up in California and she completed her higher education from the universities of California and Howard.

Ram ShriramKavitark Ram Shriram is a board member of Google and one of the first investors in Google. He runs his own investment firm, Sherpalo Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in promising new disruptive technologies, established in the year 2000.

In 2005, Shriram was named as one among the top three high-tech dealmakers by Forbes, recognizing his talents and foresight. Recently, he also made it to Forbes’ list of ‘richest Indian Americans’, with a net worth of $1.6 billion.

‘He is always eager to roll up his sleeves and work closely with founding teams on the challenging issues that confront and sometimes confound early stage ventures,’ saysGoogle, reports Rediff.

Shriram is also an investor in a global mobile Ad Network, InMobi. He serves on the boards of StumbleUpon, Zazzle, Next Jump, Mevio and PaperlessPost.com, and also serves on the advisory board of Naukri.com.

Shriram completed his graduation in science from Loyola College of Chennai, Madras University and holds an MBA from the Ross School of Business affiliated to University of Michigan.

Balamurali AmbatiAmbati is a Tamil-origin ophthalmologist, educator, and researcher who made it to the Guinness Book of World Records by becoming the youngest doctor; at the age of 17! He was successful in re-defining the minimum age limit for a person to join medical school in the west.

Presently, he works as the Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences & Director of Corneal Research at the University of Utah.

Ambati has showcased extreme skills in various fields of science from early childhood and has now turned out to be a highly esteemed personality in the world of medical science. According to him, being a good listener, being thoughtful and perseverance are the three traits a successful person should possess.

His contribution in correcting myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism through LASIK is quite noteworthy.

Balamurali has received many prestigious awards for his medical brilliance which includes Raja-Lakshmi Award from Sri Raja-Lakshmi Foundation, Chennai, in the year 1995.

Sendhil RamamurthySendhil Ramamurthy is an American actor, who was born in Chicago to Hindu Tamil immigrant parents from India.

He has acted in many popular movies such as Love & Debate, Orient Express, Blind Dating, Little India, Shor in the City and It’s a Wonderful Afterlife.

He has also appeared on several TV shows, including Ellen, Casualty, Guiding Light, Grey’s Anatomy, Ultimate Force, CSI: Miami, Heroes, Covert Affairs and Numb3rs.

He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in history and then attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, from which he graduated in the year 1999.

Aziz Ansari

Aziz Ansari, an Indian-origin American writer and stand-up comedian has huge fan following him, which goes up to more than 1.7 million on Twitter. Ansari, who holds a graduation in marketing from Leonard N. Stern School of Business at NewYork University, started his career performing stand-up comedy. He got a place in the “Hot List” of Rolling Stone in the year 2005 and was also honoured with the Jury Award for “Best Standup” at HBO’s U.S Comedy Arts Festival in the year 2006.

S.Somasegar

S. Somasegar is the Corporate Vice President of the Developer Division at Microsoft Corporation. Till September 2011, he served as the Senior Vice President of the company.

He is responsible for engineering and marketing for developer tools and services, programming languages and runtimes designed for a broad base of software developers and development teams, including the Visual Studio and Expression families of products, .NET Framework, and Team Foundation Server.

Somasegar started the India Development Center in Hyderabad and the Microsoft Canada Development Center in Vancouver.

He was honoured with the Asian American Engineer of the Year Award in  2008.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication engineering from College of Engineering, Anna University and an M.S. in computer engineering from Louisiana State University.

He is the owner of four patents and before joining as the head of the developers’ division, Somasegar had worked on eight different operating system releases.

Jaishankar Ganesh

Jaishankar Ganesh is the first permanent dean of Asian Indian descent at Rutgers School of Business–Camden.

“Dr. Ganesh is an exceptional administrator and scholar, and an energetic visionary. I am confident that he will help to advance the Rutgers School of Business–Camden to its rightful place as a premier center for education and business development in our region and state,” said Richard L. McCormick, president of Rutgers, while announcing the appointment of Ganesh. He also added that “his focus on developing new models for business education that address the career demands of the coming decades will help to lead Rutgers to the next level of prominence in undergraduate and graduate business education.”

Ganesh holds a Ph.D. in Marketing and International Business from the University of Houston and an MBA degree from the same university. He received his bachelor’s degree in Physics from the Loyola Autonomous College, Madras and second degree in Instrument Technology from the Madras Institute of Technology.

Nikesh Arora…Google”s Fourth Pillar !!!!

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The internet has ingrained into our day to day life. There are currently over 1.5 billion internet users, which means, if considered as a country, the “online community” would have been most populous in the world. The amount of information that gets stored online in a year exceeds 50 times what was created in entire human history. Yet, Nikesh Arora says “you have seen nothing yet”, in an interview with Shyamal Majumdar of Business Standard, on the way exploring the Google’s Business Boss’ thoughts on online world’s migrants and natives and how advertisers are missing the bus.

Arora, the fourth most important executive at Google, after founders Sergey Brin, LarryPage and Chairman Eric Schmidt, says that online world is moving fast from migrants to natives, making net connectivity a “must-have” from “nice-to-have” just five years ago. “People like you and I are migrants in this online country. But people of my daughter’s generation are natives because they haven’t seen a world without Googleor Facebook,” he said.

So this transition of being a native in theonline country will eventually see most of the things that we know to become extinct, and his list of things includes entire media business in its current form like television advertising, which is destined to move into interactive networks.

Also, books will be dead and become just collectors’ items; Arora says “I can see this happening with my daughter who is in the ninth standard. Earlier, her books used to come in a big box. This year, she has been given an iPad. The books come loaded with it; she does her homework and submits it online, and her teacher uses cloud to access it.” He asks, “Can you imagine kids of her generation ever carrying books when they join college?”

Being a chief salesman at Google, which clocked revenue of $38 billion in 2011, he says, the challenge is how this transition, of migrants to natives, can be managed because that will impact the search giant’s revenue flow. Close to 96 per cent of Google’s revenue comes from advertisements.

Arora faced 399 rejections before getting a job at Fidelity Investments. “I thought life would be easy after doing my Masters from Boston and an MBA from Northeastern University. But here I was in an alien country — married but without a job, and living off the $3,000 that my father had sent me,” he said.

On reflecting about the time he joinedGoogle, Arora said that he was planning to do something on his own when a friend asked him in 2004 to consider joining a company that could offer a start-up kind of an atmosphere. The two Google founders conducted the interview among the artifacts of the British Museum; he says “We walked around. We looked at the exhibits and a lot of our conversation was about the Rosetta stone,” referring to an Egyptian artifact that dates to 196 BC and is inscribed in three languages.

Majumdar writes that one of Arora’s key contributions at Google has been driving revenues from other regions and building relations with advertisers. Presently more than half the company’s revenue comes from outside of the U.S. compared to just one-third when he joined eight years ago. It’s thus obvious why Google made a rare move last month, and decided to pay its top salesman $8 million in cash, instead of the previously agreed upon stock options and stock units. Arora, who made more than $23 million last year, will have to repay Google if he chooses to leave his position before April 25, 2015, the date the stock units and options will have vested.

Majumdar writes, whilst Arora at the age of 45 already been a top player at Google, and won’t he remain the tallest pygmy in a company where the founders are much younger than him? Before winding up his worthwhile conversation, he asks Arora, what’s next? To which Arora says, “Does things to undo the pattern every time his life takes on a steady pattern”. But he still loves going to office every day in a company that loves disrupting conventions, and where his colleagues are always excited about solving the most complicated of technological problems, Majumdar adds.

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Not Just an Entrepreneur!!!!….Meet Mr.K.V.Ramani …..

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K.V. Ramani, the co founder of nasscom, that represents and sets the tone for public policy for the Indian software industry is also a successful entrepreneur who founded Chennai-based Future Software and co-founded Hughes Software in Delhi. This man is just not an entrepreneur who runs behind money but he is also a well known philanthropist. His philanthropic activities can inspire many entrepreneurs to follow this path; reports rediff.com.

 

Ramani was recently in news for one such activity where he built and donated Sai Ashram for Rs 110 crore and handed it over to Sri Saibaba Sansthan. This Ashram will formally be inaugurated by President Pranab Mukherjee on November 16. Apart from this, Ramani also extends his services by donating 80 percent of his total earnings to the Shirdi Sai Trust.

 

Being a devotee of Shiridi Sai Baba 
Ramani became a diehard devotee of Shiridi Sai Baba 35 years ago, when he was 27 year old. He was never a spiritual person and nor was he a devotee of Sai Baba.
Once one of his dearest family memberfell sick and it was a disease that doctors could not diagnose and cure. He and his family were shattered, that was when they were asked to worship Shiridi Sai Baba and Ramani was asked to visit the temple in Mylapore. He decided to visit the temple every Thursday since then but he did not have to wait as the miracle happened the same night when the sick person started showing signs of recovery. The next day when the doctors arrived to check the status of that person they were surprised as he was completely cured.
Donating income and being spiritual
“I was not spiritual then; a young unmarried man of 27. Now, I am 62. There was no rationale working then. When my prayers were answered, I decided to fulfill the promise. For me, it was like visiting a temple after writing an exam well,” says Ramani.
He completely accepts the fact that he has turned spiritual and only after being a devotee of Shiridi Sai that he was able to differentiate between religion and spirituality. He always wanted to visit the Shiridi temple but was not able to do so though he planned many trips with Dewang Mehta (of Nasscom) but could not make it happens not when you planned but when Baba wants. After starting the Sai Ashram project he has been regularly visiting the temple to be blessed and to be rejuvenated.
Taking the philanthropic path
Ramani started his philanthropic venture in his house in Chennai in 1996 where he set aside a certain sum of money for building Sai temples, to help the poor in education, food and healthcare and also for Sai Prachaar. He also says that he does not accept or take money as donation and completely does it from his own money.
He says, “Baba, you gave me too much money, I don’t need this much”. After selling two of his companies in 2004, which benefited the company, employees and himself, he decided to keep just 20 percent of it and to give away the 80 percent of it to Sai Baba.
As spoken to rediff he says, “I gave Rs 110 crore now. If you add what I have given all these years, it is much more than that.What we are spending every year is from the interest I get from the corpus I have invested. This Rs 110 crore comes from the interest of the corpus of the last 5-6 years.”
Reason to donate 110 crores
Ramani did not have any plans to build anything rather than just using the funds for some good purpose. When he spoke to the PRO of Shirdi Sansthan, he realized that the major problem that the ashram faced was accommodation.
Elderly people sat on the roads and women fed their babies in the open as they could not get a roof under their head. After taking a closer look at the statistics he found out that 30-40,000 devotees came to Shirdi every day. During weekends, it was a lakh and during festival times, it was 3-4 lakhs and the accommodation available with the Sansthan was less than 10,000. It was after hearing and seeing all this he decided to take up the project.
He also clearly says that it would be completely owned, maintained and managed by the Sansthan, and nobody has rights over it after handing over the keys.
“What I do for the Shirdi Sai Trust is not materialistic; it is spiritual”. He also says, “The entrepreneur in me creates institutions which can provide employment, which can create and showcase technological products to the world. We didn’t build a services company; we built a technology product company. We focused primarily on the telecom sector and had branches in the UK, Germany, in the US, Japan, Korea and China.”
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If You Love Modi, Re-elect Joe Walsh {R} …An Election Slogan in US !!!!

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Narendra Modi shown by Mr. Walsh for his 2012 campaign

VERY INTERESTING… AN INPUT RECD FROM ONE AMERICAN CONTACTS SHOW AN ELCTION PAMPHLET SHOWING A CANDIDATE USING MR.MODI”S STRENGTH  FOR THE   CANVASSING OF VOTES FROM FELLOW US MEN  HIGHLIGHTING THE ENTREPRENEURAL SKILLS OF  MR. MODI AS A LEARNING FOR AMERICANS  FOR THE GROWTH OF US ECONOMY AND JOB CREATION !!!!!

CERTAINLY A PIECE OF INFORMATION TO BE SHARED WITH ALL OF YOU…..

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Think-Tank Leader of of MS Windows Server 2012…An Indian…

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Meet the Indian behind Microsoft’s $15 Billion Enterprise Business

 As the whole world contemplates on the introduction of Windows 8 desktop OS, Microsoft has taken another gigantic step with its release of Windows Server 2012, today. Microsoft acknowledges this OS to be the biggest player in the core enterprise market in upcoming years.

So who is the think-tank leading this enormous project? It is an Indian who has been the pillar behind the launch of Windows Server 2012- Satya Nadella. Nadella is the current president of Servers and Tools Business (STB) at Microsoft and the master mind behind Server 2012. “This is perhaps the biggest release of our server products in history, bigger than NT,” he said at the launch event. “I was here at Microsoft when we launched Windows NT, which ushered in the era of client/server, and we believe that Windows Server 2012 ushers in the era of the cloud operating system.”

In an interview given to SiliconIndia for its March ‘03 issue, Nadella, who was then the corporate Vice President for Microsoft Business Solutions expressed his vision about the Microsoft CRM on which he was working and its implications on the enterprise server and the third-party server. During his interview, he mentioned, “The person would most probably be using MS Outlook, he or she wouldn’t even know that the underlying software is a CRM tool. But the person can now do a lot more with his email—generate and complete an entire order, and rack up the tally on the corporate inventory. The CRM would be working on the enterprise server or on some third-party server.” The cover story shed light on the immense potential and foresightedness of this Indian pro and his visionary that is currently evident from the 19 years that he has contributed to Microsoft and the world of technology.

Nadella grew up in Hyderabad- India, where he did his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Mangalore University, followed by a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin. The master’s degree was truly the turning point of his life. In 1992, Nadella joined Microsoft, which he proudly admits, ‘the path to his new life.’ Nadella came to Microsoft from Sun Microsystems, where he was a member of their technology staff.

According to Microsoft, Nadella is the architect for the overall business and technical vision, strategy, operations and engineering and marketing that made over $15 billion via businesses. The Server and Tool Business platform nurtures Microsoft’s infrastructural managerial services and cloud platform that cover up some of the ground breaking products like Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center and the Windows Azure Platform- Microsoft’s pinnacle in cloud technology.

The perseverance and determination of this Indian didn’t wind up, as he continued his studies, including a successful MBA degree from the University of Chicago. At Microsoft, Nadella spend several years leading engineering efforts in Microsoft’s Server group. This was followed by his promotion to the Online Services Division of Microsoft. Along with that, he also led Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS), which develops and markets the Microsoft Dynamics line of ERP and CRM products.

At the OSD, Nadella was appointed as the senior vice president of R&D. Microsoftcredit Nadella as the lone architect for its most-successful search engine- Bing, online portal MSN and other advertising platforms. It’s pretty clear that the technical visionary of Nadella haNadella- At Present

In February 2011, Microsoft was subjected to a major shake-up and that bought this Indian to one of the most coveted managerial positions in the company. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer himself appointed Nadella as the president of the Server and Tools Business.

Ballmer praises Nadella’s work at OSB: “He led the overall R&D efforts for some of the largest online services and drove the technical vision and strategy for several important milestones, including the critical launch of Bing, new releases of MSN, Yahoo integration across Bing and adCenter, and much more.”

“Satya is also well-known for his leadership. He has strong collaboration skills, is decisive in both decision-making and delegating and has strong customer insights, engineering and business expertise. He also knows how to structure organizations for outstanding performance,” he continued. From that time on, tech giant, Microsoft had no time to look back, as they dusted all other enterprise companies with their ever-grossing products.

Nadella clearly signifies that praises and admiration is not what overlays the pavement to success. The below mentioned fact proves the validity of the statement.

According to reports, Microsoft’s Server and Tools business is bigger than its desktop Windows business. This is prior the growth rate of the S&T department that hit $18.7 billion when compared to $18.4 billion from Windows.

Nadella currently resides with his wife and three children in the state of Washington.

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