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 […]
RAJASEKHARAN NAIR – A BUSINESS EXPERT WHO RETURNED TO CONQUER
It is a widely accepted aphorism and home-truth that ‘no prophet is honoured in his hometown’. Honoured elsewhere he surely is, but when he returns to his hometown after winning the world, the folk of his hometown just take him for granted. It would have been the same in the case of Rajasekharan Nair, a […]
NARINDER SINGH KAPANY – THE MAN WHO BENT LIGHT
Two people talking to each other across a city or a continent – doing business locally or globally, accessing home entertainment from anywhere – all these today are channelised through slender bundles of glass fibres thinner than human hair that carry the signals or images at nearly the speed of light. The seeds for this […]
ANIL AGARWAL – AN ENTREPRENEURIAL JOURNEY
“India is not a capitalist nation and should never be one” ….. Anil Agarwal This brave journey for Anil Agarwal began when he was all of 19 years old. Born into a lower middle class Marwari family in Bihar with no silver spoon in his mouth, Anil Agarwal’s story today is that of a self-made multi-billionaire, […]
NIHARICA RAIZADA …. I HAVE NO INHIBITIONS
Our Bollywood maven J V managed to catch up with the sexy and beautiful Niharica Raizada, who per happenchance is the granddaughter of the well-known, great and late music director OP Nayyar. Chatting up with her, NRI Achievers comes off with the conviction that acting is indeed her passion. Here are excerpts from the conversation […]
1948 – THE FALL OF HYDERABAD
20th August, 1671. A son was born to Aurangzeb’s favoured general Ghaziuddin Khan Siddiqui Feroz Jung, who had commanded the siege and capture of the famous Golconda fort. The child was named ‘Mir Qamaruddin Khan Siddiqui,’ and grew up to serve his emperor as well. In 1724, Qamaruddin was sent to the Deccan to replace […]
VARUN DHAWAN – A STAR ON HIS OWN STEAM
The affable actor who has come to in his own right up the ladder of success after his humble debut with Karan Johar’s THE STUDENT OF THE YEAR and proved his mettle in films like MAIN TERA HERO, HUMPTY SHARMA KI DULHANIYA, BADLAPUR, ABCD 2 and DILWALE tells Jyothi Venkatesh that though he finds the […]
SADHGURU JAGGI VASUDEV – MAN, MYSTIC & VISIONARY
“How deeply you touch another life is how rich your life is … the greatest thing that you can do in life is to live to your peak and to set an example that there is a way to live beyond all limitations … this life for me is an endeavour to help people experience […]
THE AFRO OUTREACH – MODI'S RENDEZVOUS WITH AFRICA PUTS INDIA UPFRONT
PM Narendra Modi’s historic four nation tour of Africa (July 7th to July 11th) was in essence a sincere attempt to add a new dimension to his government’s motto of making India a leading global power. The tour succeeded in large measure – by strengthening bilateral relations, enhancing India’s strategic, economic and soft power aspirations, […]
NATIONAL BUILDING CODE 2016 – A REGULATORY BOOST TO BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
Complimenting the Modi government’s emphasis on real estate and construction sector reforms, the updated and revised National Building Code 2016 (NBC 2016) that is set to be unveiled later this year will bring out the state-of-the-art and most contemporary version of the building code, dealing with futuristic developments. Vinod Behl writes on the impact this […]
THE RIO OLYMPICS – THE VERY BEST OF THE INDIAN SQUAD
Carrying the hopes of billions of Indians, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), has sent one of the largest ever contingents of around 120 members to participate in the worlds biggest sports carnival, the Summer Olympics in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, beginning from August 4 and coming to a close on August 21. […]
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 […]
SUNNY VARKEY – A VISIONARY IN THE MISSION MODE
1957 born Sunny Varkey, a non-resident Keralite from India, is a well-known Dubai-based entrepreneur and education philanthropist. He is both the founder and chairman of global advisory & educational management firm ‘GEMS Education,’ by far the largest operator of private ‘kindergarten-to-grade-12’ schools in the world, with a network of over 130 schools in more than […]
SHALABH “SHALLI” KUMAR – DON'T JUST BE HUMAN, BE A HUMANITARIAN
Having his roots in the Ambala district of Haryana, Shalli, as Shalabh Kumar is best known to those who know him, is an expatriate Indian American entrepreneur, industrialist and a philanthropist who is based out of Chicago in the US. The tycoon, apart from being active philanthropically, is also a bourgeois interpreter, kinship mover-and-shaker and […]
THE UBIQUITOUS NON RESIDENT THE WIZARDS OF BANKING & FINANCE
In the late 60s and early seventies, wave upon wave of educated young Indians, in abject disillusionment with the snail’s pace of growth at home, left Indian shores in search of a future elsewhere. This act of theirs for seeking a better life was looked upon as an act of betrayal in some quarters. “BRAINDRAIN […]
NORTHEAST SOJOURN BEAUTY BEYOND COMPARE
The tiny Maruti 800 labours up the winding roads of Kohima. It is a Sunday and most of the city is closed. Beautiful people dressed in their sunday best emerge from the lanes after the mass at the churches end. We make our way up, to the top of Aradura Hill. Few hours ago, the […]
JIM CORBETT THE TIGER HUNTER WHO TURNED THEIR SAVIOR
This July we celebrate the birthday of a fearless hunter who turned a saviour for tigers in India. I came across this story while I was sitting on the shore of the Kosi River of Uttarakhand. A few days ago, I had gone to the Namah Resorts in Dhikuli, at Jim Corbett Park. I was […]
'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 […]