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Meeting C.K.Prahalad

  (August8, 1941-April 16, 2010) Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad  was globally known as the ‘Management Guru’ world-wide.  His research mainly focused on ‘Corporate Strategy’ and the role of management in corporations.  On April 16, 2010, Prahalad died of a previously undiagnosed lung … Continue reading

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Meeting U.Shrinivas the Mandolin Player

Interview with Mandolin player U. Shrinivas for IE (West coast edition)   Mandolin Brothers U.Shrinivas and U.Rajesh Concert in San Diego   A packed David and Dorothea Garfield Theater, San Diego with more than 550 people were enthralled with an amazing … Continue reading

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Indian Music & Dance Festival

The 3rd Annual Indian Music and Dance Festival in San Diego A crowd of around 4,600 people joined in one of the biggest celebrations of Indian Classical Music and Dance festival, over four days, organized by the Indian Fine Arts … Continue reading

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Coffee with Dr.Ramachandran

(Vilayanur.S. Ramachandran is Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Professor with the Psychology Department and Neurosciences Program at the University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor of Biology at the Salk Institute. Ramachandran initially trained as … Continue reading

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Meeting Nandan Nilekani

  (Interview with Nandan Nilekani in 2007. He has moved on since; in charge of the PIO card project currently… Photos are from my Personal collection taken at the Infosys campus, Bangalore)   As I entered the gates I noticed … Continue reading

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Meeting Krishnammal

    (Padmashree Krishnammal Jegannathan- Sarvodaya leader, Social activist, Dalit spokesperson, freedom fighter, Noble Peace Prize nominee and several more awards…)     I was driving back at night after an interview with a very special person; a person whom … Continue reading

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The Gandhi Legacy Tour

  Gandhi Legacy Tour with Arun and Tushar Gandhi filmed by Garth Dykes   Every year the Global Exchange Organization based in San Francisco arranges a tour, also called the reality tours, aimed at educating the visitors about the realities … Continue reading

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Schwarzenegger, Venter and I

The Terminator, Sequencer and I  No! We are not connected or even distantly related. It just so happened that the three of us were at the same place at the same time by circumstances and what a pleasant meeting it … Continue reading

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Meeting Dr.L.Subramaniam

Dr. L. Subramaniam concert organized by AID San Diego The Padma Bhushan and Sangeet Natak Akademi award recipient Dr.L. Subramaniam is a musician who is widely recognized and renowned all over the world. He was honored with the title of … Continue reading

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Meeting ‘Indian Ocean’ Band

Indian Ocean music rocks the West Coast – My Interview with the group for Indian Express-West coast edition   Prathyush Tiwari a graduate student at Caltech was speeding down the highway from Pasadena, a 120 mile drive, to make it … Continue reading

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Clean Energy Transportation

Clean Energy Transportation  (A round-up review of greening of automobile industry by introducing clean air fuel and reducing emissions… including the Obama plans for the future. I had covered a Panel discussion by leading innovative companies in the vicinity and … Continue reading

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