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IndiaOn
October 30, 2007
IndiaOn has partnered with erudite and savvy professionals to bring you the best food-for-thought for your daily reading.
Anurag Chatrath
Anurag, an IIM Ahmedabad alumnus, is a corporate banker by profession though he claims allegiance to words and not numbers. He gave up his career to pursue a Masters in Creative Writing. He never went back to banking and now freelances so as to combine his two passions of writing and traveling. Past assignments have been with publications such as India Today Travel Plus, Financial Express, and Hindustan Times. His other pursuits include music, languages (French and Italian, more coming) and Yoga. His friends are tired of his I-am-travelling-to-South-America-next-month statements. A couple of books are in the writing.
Check out Anurag’s website at www.anuragchatrath.com
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Jugalbandi
Jugalbandi explores issues relevant to the informed reader, within a forum of spirited point to counter-point debate between the authors, Ajmal Noorani and Gautam Chinai.
Gautam Chinai has served as Senior Vice President, Consumer Originations, at California Mortgage Advisors (CMA), Inc., since September 1993. Prior to joining CMA, Mr. Chinai, pursued ventures in real estate sales and investments with Prudential California Real Estate (formerly TRI), from 1988 to 1993. From 1980 to 1988, Mr. Chinai contributed to the rapid growth of his family’s statewide chain of retail stores in California. Mr. Chinai holds an M.B.A. in Finance from University of San Francisco and a B.S. in International Business from San Francisco State University. Mr. Chinai was born in Mumbai and has lived in the S.F. Bay Area since 1972. He is married and has two children.
Ajmal Noorani is Chief Marketing Officer at CSS, a San Jose based IT services company backed by Goldman Sachs and Sierra Ventures. He has been a key member of the management team at two publicly traded companies, most recently at Packeteer (PKTR) where he was VP of Business Development from 2003-2006, and before that at iGate (IGTE), where he ran International Operations. Ajmal has an M.B.A. from Carnegie-Mellon (Tepper) which must be where he learned to buy high and sell low. He has lived in Bombay India, Pittsburgh PA and moved to the S.F. Bay Area at the height of the previous bubble in 2000. He is married and has three children he admits to having fathered.
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Namit Arora
Writer, travel photographer, and Internet technologist, Namit has lived in four countries, visited many more, and now divides his time between San Francisco and Delhi. Over the years he has created what is perhaps the most extensive photojournal on India, focusing on portraits, wildlife, archaeology, culture, and nature. Currently at work on his first novel, he has published essays, fiction, and book reviews in the US, Britain, and India. His website is Shunya and he is the editor of the group blog Shunya’s Notes
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Pranav Dharma
Pranav Dharma is I’m based in Raleigh Ft. Lauderdale, USA and maintains a blog on what’s happening in the Indian tech scene including Web2.0, VC activity, startups, entrepreneurship, tech infrastructure, broadband, mobile TV.
Pranav’s blog, StartupDunia is his attempt to capture a small essence of all this buzz and high impact activity.
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Sumit Agarwal
Sumit lives in Silicon Valley, where he works as a product manager by day and serves as an Air Force officer on weekends. He focuses on product development in the mobile space and also pursues personal interests in government and politics. Sumit went to MIT and earned a degree in chemical engineering.
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The India Street
The India Street is a worldwide site that provides unique investment insight for individual investors, in the U.S., India, and internationally. The India Street is different from other business sites because it focuses on opinion and analysis rather than news. Their primary focus is to bring transparency to: India Business & Indian companies operating in India
“The India Street may be the most important investment alliance you will ever join.”
Check out more information at www.theindiastreet.com
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Atanu Dey
Atanu Dey, PhD, is the chief economist at Netcore Solution in Mumbai. He blogs about India’s development at www.deeshaa.org
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2point6billion.com
2point6billion.com is a blog specifically dedicated to comment and dialogue on matters of China & India trade, development, investment opportunities, politics, and the impact these two huge emerging markets are having on the international business community.
Check out the rest of the blogs here
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N. Vasuki Rao
N. Vasuki Rao, in a journalism career spanning nearly four decades, has worked for the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi, Chennai and Bangalore in different capacities including Special Correspondent, Senior Assistant Editor and Business Editor. He has also worked for US and UK publications such as the Journal of Commerce, Fairchild Publications, McGraw Hill publications, and Agra Europe London as their South Asia and India correspondent for over 15 years. He is now based in Bangalore.
You can read Vasuki’s Blog here
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Mutiny.in
What’s the Mutiny?
The Mutiny is an Indian thought terminus. A platform to discuss ideas, share experiences, and debate issues.
When was the Mutiny founded?
Mutiny was founded in May of 2004 as a part of its founder’s personal blog (on blogger). We have been evolving since then. First we moved to Wordpress.com and recently we moved to our own mediatemple servers. Along the way we picked up the domain name mutiny.in
Who runs the Mutiny?
A dedicated team of mutineers.
Does the Mutiny make any money?
No. The Mutiny is non profit. Even if we do make money in the future, it would be strictly used to meet costs. Until then we rely on Mary’s college fund.
Can anyone join the Mutiny?
Sure, just go here
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Saravana Pat Bhava
Saravana, an ex-Naval Aviator and deep sea diver is a man of varied interests. After his premature retirement from the Indian Navy, instead of taking up a cushy commercial pilot’s job, he opted to get entrepreneurial and started an Indian quick serve chain, which is at its humble beginnings now. He finished his schooling from RIMC Dehradun and graduated from National Defense Academy Pune. He is a keen sportsman having excelled in boxing , swimming and also competed in various National and International sailing regattas. He also happens to be an occasional writer and has some of his works published. By virtue of him having had the privilege to serve in the Army, Navy, Airforce and the CoastGuard, he has lived in almost all parts of India and is also well traveled in most of Europe, Africa and America. He now lives in Tampa Fl with wife Chitra and his 4 year old daughter Shrisha.
Pat is IndiaOn’s Entrepreneur of the Month. Read his story here
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Nadr Essabhoy
Nadr has lived in the San Francisco Bay area since 1976 and has been a licensed real estate agent and broker associate since 1990. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from U.C. Berkeley and an MBA from Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business.
He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the California Association of Realtors and presides as the Palo Alto District Chair for the Silicon Valley Association of Realtors.
In addition to his Real Estate background, Nadr’s professional experience includes his position as director of marketing for a start-up software company and his position as a manager for an international management consultant company.
Nadr is currently a Broker Associate with Alain Pinel Realtors in the San Francisco Bay Area. Check out his site here.
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Jasbina Ahluwalia
Jasbina Ahluwalia is a certified matchmaker, in IndiaOn’s Relationship Expert.
As a former practicing lawyer, Jasbina can relate first-hand to the challenge of juggling professional, social, and personal demands. Jasbina’s first-hand experience motivated her to create a premium service which could be effectively leveraged by selective professionals wishing to focus on finding that special someone, while at the same time maintaining demanding schedules. As a second-generation Indian-American raised in the U.S., Jasbina has a unique perspective on the immigrant experience. Jasbina’s matchmaking service is Intersections Matchmaking
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The Indian Star
An online news and magazine portal, TheIndianStar.com satisfies the demands of not only the Indian community living in the US and Canada, but also is a window to those people in India who may be interested in what is taking place in North America or any where across the globe where Indians are in sizable number. Check out “The Indian Star”: http://www.theindianstar.com to know what is happening in your own community.
