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Lokvani Talks To - Recap 2012 - Part I


12/15/2012

Lokvani Talks To Girish Mehta Of Indian Circle For Caring
Girish Mehta, Founder and Executive Director of Indian Circle for Caring, USA Inc is retired from his professional life but is so busy in the circle that he has assiduously built that on the day of this interview he was helping out a family plan a cremation, one of the many services that ICC provides to the Indian American community. If you as a reader have seen a brochure booklet called ‘Five Wishes’, it is a product of the ICC, another resource offered by the group to plan and be prepared in case of a crisis.
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Lokvani Talks To Prof. Anant Agarwal
“Online learning is going to change the world. We are going to be able to engage students in ways that can significantly improve their learning and also expand the reach of quality education to a large population,” says Prof. Anant Agarwal, President of edX, an organization established by MIT and Harvard University that will develop an open-source technology platform to deliver online courses. He talked to Lokvani about his research and edX.
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Lokvani Talks To Ravneet Sidhu Of Bakers Bloom
The first time I sat down to talk to Ravneet Sidhu, owner of the online bakery Bakers Bloom, she reached into her bag and offered me a sample of an elegantly wrapped graduation cookie that she has delivered to a customer who were celebrating their son's graduation. The cookies looked exquisite and smelled delicious and a bite of it brought a distinct flavor of orange and spices.
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Lokvani Talks To Ramesh Kumar
"The theme of TiECON East 2012 is "Invent your future". Our message is simple: entrepreneurs need to invent their futures in order to solve the problems we face as a society, be it in health care, education, clean energy or problems related to overall economy or unemployment. TiECON East 2012 has been designed to assist entrepreneurs with an idea to invent our future" - Ramesh Kumar, Chair TiECON East.
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Lokvani Talks To Rajendra Trivedi
"Community services is in our blood. Our family has done a lot for blind welfare in India," says Dr. Rajendra Trivedi. A psychiatrist by training, he is well known in the Boston area for the charitable services he provides for the needy. He talked to Lokvani about his journey in the world of medicine.
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Lokvani Talks To Pawan Sinha
Professor of neuroscience at MIT, Sinha has created a unique social enterprise called Project Prakash which has not only produced ground breaking research in the area of neuroscience but in the process treated blindness for so many underprivileged people in India. Sinha talked to Lokvani and his work and his unique effort.
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Lokvani Talks To Sorboni Banerjee, 7 News, Recipient 'Woman Who Rocks' Award
Against the backdrop of a beautiful sunset day at the Harvard Club, Sorboni Banerjee, Anchor and Reporter at 7 News was honored and awarded at Get Konnected’s “Women Who Rock” event, which honored a group of local women and celebrated the fourth anniversary of the Get Konnected organization.
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Lokvani Talks To Vinay Mehra
Vinay Mehra serves as the Chief Financial Officer at WGBH where he presides over the financial strategy and operations of the Studio as well as the Broadcast businesses. He talked to Lokvani about WGBH and discussed ways that the South Asian community can be involved.
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Lokvani Talks To Prat Moghe
Prat Moghe was most recently Senior Vice President at Netezza, a leader in data analytics, when it was acquired by IBM for $1.7B in 2010. He currently leads Strategy, Products, and Marketing for IBM Netezza appliances. He is the newly elected President of TIE Boston. He talked to Lokvani about entrepreneurship and his vision for TIE.
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Lokvani Talks To Dr. Apurv Gupta
With an education from Brown University and Harvard University School of Public Health and training at Beth Israel Deaconess and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Apurv Gupta has long been on track to make a difference in the community.
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Lokvani Talks To Kumar S. Sharma
A graduate of MIT's Sloan School of Business, Kumar gradually withdrew from external interests to focus his attention on spiritual knowledge after a transformative experience during the Maha Kumbha Mela in Prayag, India, in January 2001. He talked to Lokvani about his experiences and the book he has written based on his spiritual journey.
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At the Award ceremony. Photo Courtesy:Lisa Aimola































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