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एम.एस. मेहता /M S Mehta 9910532720:
Who can forget this young lad. The Captain of Indian Cricket Team. Though presently, he is putting up in Jharkhand but his parents are from UK. Thus he has paternal connection with UK. In another words,we can say that his roots are from Uttarakhand.

M  S Dhoni

I am puting here the photo of Uttarakhandi celebrating when Dhoni become Captain of India. You can see Dhoni's father also joining them.


Uttarakhand Bharti Celebrating Dhon's Captainship
Uttrakhand Bhatri Sangh playing and Danceing color with Pan Singh Father of M.S Dhoni and other family member of M.S Dhoni in Ranchi on Wednesdayv after Indian Cricket star Mahendra Singh Dhoni was appointed captain of cricket team.
http://photo.mediadip.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=2662

एम.एस. मेहता /M S Mehta 9910532720:
Originally from Pauri, Uttaranchal, Joshi believes the state has a lot to offer. “I am trying to get a few people to get things going there. For instance, the education level is high, but the computerisation element is lacking,” he points out                                                   
  (Courtsy : Business Standard:Author : Kamla Bhatt )

Have you heard of Kailash Joshi -The founder of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE). He is a Uttaranchal man and feels that this state has lot to offer .Read his story :
 

Joshi grew up in the secluded town of Pauri, nestled against the Himalayas. Both his father and grandfather were schoolteachers, instilling an early emphasis on the importance of education. In keeping with their teachings, Joshi went to the US in 1963 to pursue advanced education. Two years after his arrival he was accepted to Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. as a graduate student and teacher. Doctorate obtained, he joined IBM at its Endicott, N.Y. offices and worked with the computer giant for 24 years, finally moving to Lexington, Ky., where he directed a lab staff of 1,000 until 1990. In 1989, Joshi came to India to set up IBM's Indian subsidiary, and went on to set up the Tata-IBM joint venture. He was also part of US President Bill Clinton's entourage to India.

In 1992, Joshi was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug and moved to Silicon Valley. He was involved in several startups, including the now public, Fremont-based Oryx Technology Corp. He has also served on the boards of over 15 business, educational, cultural and charitable organizations In the early 1990s, Joshi and a few other entrepreneurs of Indian origin founded The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) to fulfill the strongly felt need of the time for an organized networking group for high-tech entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley from the Indian subcontinent.

Established in Santa Clara, California, TiE has grown to become the world's leading organization for the advancement of entrepreneurship. This not-for-profit organization chartered by entrepreneurs, corporate executives and senior professionals strives to benefit all entrepreneurs, would-be entrepreneurs and professionals with an interest in entrepreneurship. Today, it comprises 500 charter members and 6000 members from 25 chapters across five countries. It has 60 corporate sponsors, including venture capital and law firms.

Hear Joshi on the topic. “My wife and I hosted a lunch at the Marriott for Vittal when he was visiting the Silicon Valley area in November 1992,” he says. “At that time there were no networking events where Indian entrepreneurs could meet and talk shop. We had such a good time that at the end of it that A J Patel (a businessman with interests in a food management company) suggested that we meet every month for dinner,” he adds. And that led to the founding of TiE, an organisation that today has over 45 branches around the world


Joshi is also involved in efforts to improve the quality of life in India and through the efforts of former President Bill Clinton, Joshi and other prominent members of the Indian-American business community, the American India Foundation was to provide people living in India with access to technology. Other initiatives include the formation of a youth group, mobilizing groups of American physicians to volunteer their services and raise funds for relief of villages destroyed by the January 2001 earthquake in Gujarat.

Along with his wife Hem, Joshi also started the Bluegrass Indo-American Civic Society BIACS, in Lexington in the late 1980s, as a way for the Indo-American community to help the poor, mostly white communities in Kentucky.

Recently named President of TiE, Joshi is very focused on his role of an organizer and facilitator of empowerment. According to him, entrepreneurship and philanthropy are not all that different. Both, he says, require leadership and sustenance with dignity

Like a lot of overseas Indians, Joshi has arrived at a stage in life where he wants to give something to his motherland. “You have heard of the ‘varna-ashrama dharma’ (four stages of life) concept I have reached the third stage of my life where I am not looking for money. I have learnt that people need help, and I want to give back to society with no expectations of personal gain,” he says

Joshi recently took a small group of people from TiE and AIF to visit Dehra Dun. “We will be starting 3 digital equalizer centers and are working with the Uttaranchal government to select the sites,” says Joshi. Each centre is to be equipped with one server, 10 computers and headphones and a large screen. The goal is to help students and to bridge the digital divide

Joshi finishes his stint as president of the Silicon Valley chapter of TiE at the end of the year and has already got his work cut out — helping Uttaranchal. “We are trying to create champions on the ground,” he says.

Clearly, the Indian diaspora at Silicon Valley has not forgotten its roots.

(Courtsy : nriworld,Business Standard).         

एम.एस. मेहता /M S Mehta 9910532720:

We really feel proud the achivements of these son of soil of UK.

एम.एस. मेहता /M S Mehta 9910532720:
The dotcom duke 
 
by Patrick Jonas

IF YOU ask Mr Girija Pande's children how they learnt the Pythagoras theorem, they will tell you an interesting story.



It stems from a trip the Pande family made to Greece.

In the early 1980s, Mr Pande was working in South Korea for ANZ Grindlays. And when it was time for a family holiday, the Pandes decided that it should be to one of the Greek islands.

But which one? They had no idea.

So they took an atlas, opened the page with the map of Greece and just dropped a pencil. It fell on the island of Samos.

Only after they arrived on the island did they find out that Pythagoras was born in Samos. Mr Pande's children - Aakanksha and Rahul - were then in primary school and eager to know all about the great mathematician.

"Even today I tell my son about that trip. It sparked off my children's interest in maths," Mr Pande, 58, told tabla! Rahul, 28, who went on to Stanford is working with a hedge fund company in Wall Street. And Aakanksha, 27, is married and a scholar at Harvard doing research in health policy. She also teaches statistics as part of her work in Harvard.

The children had a role in Mr Pande returning to India in 1989. "After 25 years in banking, working overseas, I went back to India so that my children would get to know India better. I was then the fund manager for the mutual fund division of our bank. But I was also yearning to do something different. It was the time the dotcom story was starting and I realised the potential of technology. I knew Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) as we were their clients and I also knew their CEO," he said, explaining how he got to join the tech major.

Given his knowledge of the Asian region, he was asked to set up the Asia Pacific office, which he did in 2001 in Singapore.

Why Singapore?

"It was a difficult decision not to choose Hong Kong, especially after having worked and lived there. But I chose Singapore for the strong support from the Singapore Government. This was the best place for a technology company."

And therein began a long success story. TCS today has offices in 14 Asian cities with 5,000 employees.

He is also instrumental in opening the door to China in 2003.

TCS was the first Indian tech company to set up shop in China. Today over 1,200 TCS employees, over 90 per cent of them Chinese, work there.

Mr Pande feels India can learn a lot from China.

"India can learn social order and discipline from China, which we lack sometimes. The Chinese also tend to have a very strong view across the community on growth. In India we sometimes get sidetracked with other issues. There is a single-minded focus on growth to improve the lot of the ordinary Chinese."

He recalled a remarkable experience he had while dealing with the Chinese authorities.

In 2003, after TCS decided to set up an office in Hangzhou, he often had to meet the mayor and vice mayor of the city. "They were always readily available, even on a Sunday, unlike Indian bureaucrats. One day I told them that food was a problem with the Indians working there as most of them were vegetarians."

The mayor noted this down.

When Mr Pande visited him three months later, the mayor asked him whether he had visited the local vegetarian restaurant. "When I said no, his reply was: 'We set it up for you'.

"Tell me, how many countries will do that for foreign investors," asked MrPande.

Since then one more Indian vegetarian restaurant has come up in Hangzhou.

The IIM Ahmedabad alumnus, who was born in Nainital, lives in Singapore with his wife, Bharoti, who teaches Business Communications at the Singapore Management University.

In his free time he plays golf and bridge. In fact, he was part of the TCS team that won the Forbes Sentosa Golf tournament last month.

Reading is a passion too. He was midway through Aravind Adiga's Booker Prize-winning book when this interview was conducted.

He has fond memories of Nainital. As a child, he and his parents would spend two months every year at his grandfather's home there. It was also a time when his relatives would join in and that bonding continues even today.

He considers Singapore an amazing amalgam of the East and the West and loves it here. To him, it has the high Western standards when it comes to infrastructure but it is very much an Asian city.

 
http://business.asiaone.com/Business/SME%2BCentral/Prime%2BMovers/Story/A1Story20081017-94457.html

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