Diaspora News June 2016
TWO INDIAN-ORIGN MPS JOIN PRITI PATEL IN ‘VOTE LEAVE’ CAMPAIGN Rishi Sunak and Suella Fernandes have joined Priti Patel, minister of state for employment in the David Cameron government, in the Vote Leave campaign advocating Britain to leave the European Union in the June 23 referendum. Both Sunak (Richmond) and Fernandes (Fareham) are first time […]
Its Time India's Most Influential People
Universally considered one among the world media’s most well-known icons, Time magazine is held in high esteem by many, and read by countless millions across the globe. The venerable magazine recently released its 2016 list of the 100 most influential people on the planet, an annual choice listing of achievers who have carved a place […]
Diaspora News
PIO CREATES DOLLS TO REFLECT ETHNIC DIVERSITY, TALENTS An Indian-American Harvard University graduate has come up with a new series of seven dolls that represent common girls with ethnic diversity and celebrate them for their brains, talents and leadership. Neha Chauhan Woodward, 29, has given each of the seven dolls unique personalities, which girls can […]
SILICON VALLEY STARTUPS…. GEN-NEXT INDIAN-AMERICANS
In the global hotbed of startups that is Silicon Valley in the good old US of A, it is the gen-next children of the Indian diaspora who are today foraying into the startup ecosystem of the valley. This bunch of young, tech-savvy second-generation Indian immigrants is building some of the hottest tech companies over there. […]
THE TALE OF MANOJ BHARGAVA MONK, HARD-NOSED BUSINESSMAN, SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR, PHILANTHROPIST
Big ticket philanthropy is a trend that is experiencing a manifold expansion in the emerging markets of Asia, and India is no exception to this trend, as both home-grown as well as Diaspora business barons and tycoons get on the act to improve lives. The rapid economic transformation underway in these developing economies has spawned […]
DR. HARINDER DHANJU “ I WANT TO RETURN BACK TO THE SOCIETY”
As part of the array of people whom we portray in our Dossier section, the NRI Achievers team has this time chosen four persona to portray, one of whom is Dr. Harinder Dhanju, an Indian Canadian dentist par-excellence, who also feels passionate about his responsibility to society, both in Canada and in India. So apart […]
TURNAROUND MAN AJAY SINGH…. I AM BACK …
The Story of Spicejet, India’s 4th largest airline operating 230 plus flights to 34 Indian and 8 International cities today, and that of the man behind it who resurrected it from a defunct and mothballed carrier to one that successfully carved a sumptuous niche for itself in the Indian civil aviation sector as a Low […]
INWARD MIGRATION OF DIASPORA…..A TREND OR A TORRENT ?
Just in the year 2010 alone, some 60,000 odd Diaspora, all professionals from different parts of the world, returned to India to start a new life afresh. Since then, at least twice that many are estimated to have come back, until now. Global surveys on the subject suggest that at least 80% NRIs and even […]
Shantanu Narayen
Engineer, Institution Builder & CEO of Adobe Systems Indian technology talent also sits at the top of the creative tools industry. Shantanu Narayen, born in 1963 in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, currently serves as the CEO of Adobe Systems – a software and services company the develops the world famous Photoshop among other products. Growing up […]
Ajay Bhatt
Computer Architect, Inventor & Innovator, Father of the USB One of the most unsung technology pioneers is Ajay Bhatt, an Indian-American computer architect who is credited as being the father of the USB standard – something that almost every computing device uses today in one form or the another. Born in 1957, Bhatt graduated from […]
The Zeal To Develop
Sandeeip Goel is a Delhi-based Chartered Accountant who has carved out a niche for himself over the past two or more decades in the domains of finance, legal affairs and also in the real estate sector, where he is a name some swear by for his clean and transparent way of functioning. Given his penchant […]
INDIAN Achievers Making India Proud-Iv
The instalment number four of our special feature on Indian Entrepreneurs who have made hay while the sun shone on them is here, with mini profiles of some extraordinary persona from the Indian corporate world. They have not only made it big, but have de facto set a standard, or raised the bar for others […]
KANWAL REKHI
Businessman, Venture Capitalist, Angel Investor & Entrepreneur Kanwal Rekhi, born 1945, is an Indian-American businessman, Venture Capitalist, Angel Investor and Entrepreneur, currently serving as the Managing Director at Inventus Capital Partners. Rekhi is credited with being the first Indian American Founder & CEO to take a venture-backed company public on the NASDAQ. Kanwal Rekhi was […]
Indiaspora the Magnificent Magi of Silicon Valley II
In today’s highly interconnected ICT enabled world of world girdling telecom networks, ubiquitous internet, electronic trade, high speed data networks and online transactions, the gap between the digital haves and the have nots yawns wider, leaving a vast abyss of a digital divide, broadly along the age-old conventional definition of the northsouth divide. While the […]
Father of the intel Pentium & AMD K6 Chips
Vinod Dham is popularly known as the Father of the Pentium chip, for his contribution to the development of Intel’s highly successful Pentium processors. He is a mentor, advisor and investor and sits on the boards of many companies, including promising start-ups funded through his India based fund – Indo US Venture Partners, of which […]
FROM SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR TO PHILANTHROPHY
Vinod Khosla, named by Fortune magazine as “the greatest Venture Capitalist of all time,” founded one of the most famous brands on Earth, Sun Microsystems, at the age of 27 and went on to fund more start-ups in optical networking, router manufacture and transmission companies than any other financier on Earth. A modest middle-class Delhiite […]
We are The World!
ACHIEVERS WHO HAVE DONE INDIA PROUD – II We have all heard about Indians who went abroad and excelled in the professions thay chose to get into. Locally born immigrants, NRIs, OCIs and PIOs today hold top-jobs in business, medicine, science, technology, writing and even in politics, where some have gone on to become Presidents […]
The Queen's India Brigade Prominent people of Indian Descent in the united kingdom
There are several people of Indian origin in the United Kingdom, who came into British society from many walks of life, some have made the British Isles their home, taking up different vocations, while some remain NRIs. They range from shopkeepers to academicians, chefs to industrialists, actors and actresses to sportsmen, and literateurs to traders […]