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In Conversation With: Year In Review - Part I


12/18/2014

In Conversation With Vinod Jhunjhunwala
Mr. Vinod Jhunjhunwala is the President of the Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation of USA. A successful businessman with a strong passion for community service, Jhunjhunwala, an MIT graduate talks about this organization that is bringing education to 52,000 villages in remote and rural parts of India touching nearly 1.5 million children at a very low cost.
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In Conversation With Saatvik Ahluwalia
Saatvik Ahluwalia, the youngest ever person to stand for the Lexington Board of Selectman, is stirring up a fresh new excitement within the town. Election day is March 3rd and we feature this dynamic youngster to state his views.
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In Conversation With Tarun Madan Of Holidayen
As part of an entrepreneurship course at Austin, Tarun Madan interviewed several travelers, most of whom thought that an automated travel planner would be a great way to organize their trips, provided it could be personalized to their interests. He discussed this idea with his friends, and thus began his journey of creating Holidayen.
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In Conversation With Arun Bhansali, Share And Care Foundation
SCF aims to take people from poverty to sustainable livelihood and growth; Entrepreneurship is at the center of the SCF Model.
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In Conversation With Venkatesh Shukla
Venkatesh Shukla, President of TiE Silicon Valley, is the founding chair of TIE Angels, the successful angel investing platform of TiE SV. Shukla was also the President of Foundation for Excellence (www.ffe.org) for 18 years. He shared insights on doing a start-up and his charitable interests.
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In Conversation With Samip Mallick Of SAADA
"We started SAADA because we recognized that South Asian American stories weren't being systematically documented and preserved by any other existing archives, museums or other heritage institutions. Our fear was that over time these stories representing an important aspect of the American narrative would be lost entirely" - Samip Mallick, Co-Founder and Executive Director of SAADA.
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In Conversation With Srinivas Garimella, On The India Campaign Trail
A busy entrepreneur takes time off from business to hit the road and campaign for a candidate in Vizag, India. Are there lessons in management to be learnt from this? Srinivas Garimella elaborates.
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In Conversation With Paresh Motiwala
Paresh Motiwala is the founder of New Gurukul, an Institute for teaching Soft Skills. He teaches public speaking to children and adults, both local and international. He talks to Lokvani about the art of public speaking.
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In Conversation With Renowned Rabindrasangeet Singer Pramita Mallick
Born and brought up in Santiniketan, the abode of Tagore’s vision, intellectualism, and creative genius, Ms. Mallick grew up with a deep appreciation of Tagore and all things Tagore.
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In Conversation With Artist Mark Rathinaraj
The Asian Art Gallery, founded by Santhana Krishnan, had their second art show the past two weekends, and it was a show featuring one extraordinary artist, Mark Rathinaraj. Mark shares his vision for the collection and the inspiration for his art.
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In Conversation With Shalini Khanna, Director NAB Center For Blind Women
"Blind girls in India require a lot of support for education and employment with help of technology and assistance. Readers in America could sensitize their Indian friends in India to employ more visually impaired bright youth and start diversity in their work places" - Shalini Khanna, NAB India during her recent visit to Boston.
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Vinod Jhunjhunwala visiting an Ekal school in Amritsar































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