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The Restricting World boundaries and the Indian Diaspora

Covid 19 virus has brought the world to a stand still and overly defensive mode. Countries are cut off with one another with increasing restrictions on movement. Only stranded citizens or some special categories have been allowed to be repatriated or evacuated from abroad. Borders are sealed within countries and with the outside world. Economies […]

SEPAK TAKRAW: GEETA BASANI IS EMERGING AS INDIAN ICON

Any game is identified by its player. A similar game is Speak Tarawa. This sport is mostly played in Southeastern countries like Malaysia and Thailand. This game is not yet popular in India, but any sport is popular only when its players attract people to their performance. One such player is Geeta Basani, who is […]

DIWAKAR VAISH – OUT OF THE BOX INVENTOR, INNOVATOR, ROBOTICIST

This feature is about Diwakar Vaish, one of India’s most innovative roboticists.  At all of 24 years, Diwakar, born 23rd July 1992, is today a prolific inventor, lecturer and head of robotics & research at ‘A-SET Training and Research Institutes, which he founded in 2010. The developer of India’s first fully indigenous 3D printed humanoid […]

DIASPORA CONNECT ENTERS NEW AGE

Dnyaneshwar Mulay is a career diplomat with a difference.  Currently the Secretary for Overseas Indian Affairs in the Ministry of External Affairs, he is also a renowned writer and thought-leader, with 15 of his inspirational books having been translated from the original Marathi into Urdu, Kannada, Arabic, Dhivehi and Hindi.  His seminal work ‘Mati Pankh Ani Akash’ has been […]

ARATHI KRISHNA – WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE

A well read scholar and accomplished diplomat, an artiste and a good singer, a dedicated social worker and a philanthropist, Arathi Krishna is a multifaceted personality who came into this world in interesting times – born at the right time in the right place to the right family, which incidentally has a strong political background. […]

ACHARYA DR. LOKESH MUNI … TRAVELLING 20,000 KMS TO REMOVE SOCIAL EVILS …

Acharya Dr. Lokesh Ji is a social reformer, versatile thinker, writer and poet. For the last 30 years, he has been continuously making efforts for building National character, development of human values and establishing non-violence, peace and mutual co-operation in the society. He has travelled on foot about 20,000 kilometres throughout the country for removing […]

SABA ZAIDI ABDI – FROM THEATRE TO TV PRODUCER TO MEDIA PERSONALITY

Saba Zaidi Abdi is a familiar name to those of us who belong to an earlier generation, when almost every second drama programme on television would have her indelible stamp on it … during the heydays of Doordarshan, India’s state-run terrestrial public broadcaster prior to the big channel boom that saw the advent of satellite […]

'SANKALP KARO, VIKALP MAT DHOONDO…' MAHESH GUPTA – THE STORY OF KENT

Irony takes various forms, and it was indeed ironical that engineer Mahesh Gupta did not have access to clean drinking and potable water at home in 1998, when both his children got jaundice. Well, he could have bought one of those water purifiers available that time, but they weren’t good enough for him, he wanted […]

DROPOUTS TO STARTUPS – A NEW INDIAN BREED OF ACHIEVERS

Conventional wisdom has always taught us B-Schools, or at the very least the ubiquitous colleges, are the breeding grounds of first-generation entrepreneurs.  But this wisdom has, over the past few decades at least, been turned on its head as many iconic successes in the domain of business have increasingly been nurtured and steered by people […]

INDIAN STARTUP ECOSYSTEM…. OLDER GENERATION ENTREPRENEURS

For quite a few years now, especially in this decade, it is the twenty something next-gen entrepreneurs who have been getting all the media attention both in the US as well as in India. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Ben Milne, creator of two successful companies in his 20s, including the mobile payment darling Dwolla. Ben […]

सुशील तायल: एक प्रोफेशनल सीए का समाज सेवा के प्रति जुनून

अच्छी सैलरी, नाम और रुतबा। सीए को लोग कुछ इस तरह ही परिभाषित करते हैं। कॉमर्स की पढ़ाई करने वाले स्टूडेंट्स के लिए सीए एक ड्रीम जॉब की तरह है। या यूं कह लें कि कॉमर्स स्ट्रीम से पढ़ने वाले अधिकतर छात्र सीए बनने का ही सपना देखते हैं तो गलत नहीं होगा। सीए यानी […]

ज्योतिष से उपचार संभव है :- आचार्य दीपक जैन

आज की भागदौड़ भरी जिंदगी में हर कोई किसी न किसी समस्या से ग्रस्त है, मसलन व्यवसाय, रोज़गार, ग्रह कलेश, मानसिक अशांति, सवास्थ्य आदि। इन सभी समस्याओं का हल छुपा होता है ग्रहों की स्तिथि पर। ग्रह तो अपनी चाल जारी रखते हैं लेकिन ज्योतिषों द्वारा बताए गए कुछ उपाए इन ग्रहों की पीड़ा से […]

BRAINBANK INDIA THE RETURN OF THE PRODIGALS

As recently as last week, India’s Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, speaking as the Chief Guest at the 3rd convocation of the National Law University, averred that india’s days of brain drain were over, for we have today become the world’s brain bank.  Gone are the days of ‘grey eminence’, he said, where people needed to […]

“LETS’ TURN PROBLEMS INTO OPPORTUNITIES” Dr. RAVINDRA PASTOR, IAS

So far in our segment ‘Indian Achievers,’ we had focused only upon compatriots from the business community, like entrepreneurs, academicians turned businessmen, corporate head honchos and the like. This month though, we take a break from this tradition of sorts that we seem to have set, to look at persona who has made life meaningful […]

I WANT TO MAKE SOCIETY 'CHINTA MUKT' ARVIND KUMAR

Arvind Kumar has been providing training in Yoga, Stress Management & Acupressure for cricketers, notably for Shahrukh Khan’s IPL team ‘Kolkata Knight Riders’ from 2011 to 2014 and earlier to the ‘Kings Eleven Punjab’ IPL team from 2008 to 2010.  Harking from a nondescript rural family from ‘Khanpur,’ a hamlet in the Shamli district of […]