Kalpana Chawla (March 17, 1962 – February 1, 2003) was born in Karnal, India. She was the first Indian-American astronaut and first Indian woman in space. She first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator. In 2003, Chawla was one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

Chawla completed her earlier schooling at Tagore Baal Niketan Sr. Sec. School,

Bengali poet Kalidas Roy

Kalidas Roy (1889–1975) was a Bengali poet. Roy was a teacher and had a significant way of writing. He was born in Bardhaman and was a descendant of the great Vaishnava poet, Lochandas. His father was Jogendranath Roy. He wrote in both Arabic and Persian.

Career:

He earned his first degree from the Berhampore College, then affiliated with the University of Calcutta. Later he studied for his MA examinations in philosophy from the Scottish Church College. During his teaching career, Roy taught in various institutions like Barisha High School (24 Parganas, near Kolkata) and Mitra Institution, Bhowanipore Branch, Kolkata, where he served as the Headmaster.

Loknath`s 122nd death anniversary being marked

The 122nd tirodhan festival of Saint Sri Sri Loknath Brahmachari will be observed at his Ashrams at city`s Swamibag and Barodi in Narayanganj district on Saturday.

Loknath, who achieved super spiritual attainment, passed away at Barodi in Narayanganj at the age of 160 on this day in 1890.

He was born at Barasat in Pashchimbanga of India in 1730 (1137 Bangla).

Bhaoyaiya artist Mahesh Chandra Roy

Kanichata garunu sky akali
Akali jingle-jangle of the rays bandhuya
Akali the jingle-jangle.
The jeweler phelachu bathuya
Bathuya halaphala the rays bandhuya
Dhuliya the air ...

or 
Slow bowler Ray Price gariyala
Bowling slowly by,
And one eye dekhiya nemo mumi
Dayal Cart barire gariyala
Dayal Cart House ...

But the beauty of Shaker Music badhura bathuya akali and ardor of this book did not engage the audience to find bhaoyaiya duskara. It is up to the north bhaoyaiya - crazy people familiar with the one tune. Region in the north krsipradhana manusagulora daily happiness - and the stories have not duhekhera sadhaka artist, composer and lyricist mahesacandra verdict. The death of this talented artist 19.

Sayone Arasratnam at Youth Network in Canada

Sayone is the Founder/President of the Hindu Youth Network (Canada's largest and fastest growing Hindu youth movement). While working as an IT Analyst and Management Consultant (for companies such as IBM, AT&T, Bank of America, United Online), he also serves on the steering committees of various national and international non-governmental organizations. His educational qualifications include a B.Sc. (Honours) in Computer Science, Specializing in Software Engineering. Believing that it was his spiritual duty to bring peace and happiness to those around him, he launched and developed HYN. He has been involved in mentoring (working with Toronto police to rehabilitate at-risk youth), service work with the Sathya Sai organization, feeding the homeless, as well as countless social initiatives. More recently he has been studying the classical scriptures, both dualistic and non-dualistic.

Canada's largest Hindu youth movement: HYN

Shumeet Banerji and Rajiv L. Gupta at HP

Shumeet BanerjiDirector since 2011

Mr. Banerji has served as Chief Executive Officer of Booz & Company, a consulting company, since July 2008. Previously, Mr. Banerji served in multiple roles at Booz Allen Hamilton, a consulting company and predecessor to Booz & Company, while based in offices in North America, Asia and Europe, including President of the Worldwide Commercial Business from February 2008 to July 2008, Managing Director, Europe from February 2007 to February 2008 and Managing Director, United Kingdom from 2003 to March 2007. Earlier in his career, he was a member of the faculty at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Rajiv L. GuptaDirector since January 2009

Mr. Gupta has served as Chairman of Avantor Performance Materials, a manufacturer of chemistries and materials, since August 2010 and as Senior Advisor to New Mountain Capital, LLC, a private equity firm, since July 2009. Previously, Mr. Gupta served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Rohm and Haas Company, a worldwide producer of specialty materials, from 1999 to April 2009. Mr. Gupta occupied various other positions at Rohm and Haas since joining the company in 1971, including Vice-Chairman from 1998 to 1999; Director of the Electronic Materials business from 1996 to 1999; and Vice-President and Regional Director of the Asia-Pacific Region from 1993 to 1998. Mr. Gupta also is a director of Tyco International Ltd., The Vanguard Group and several private companies.

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Dr. Dileep Bhandarkar joined Microsoft as a Distinguished Engineer

Dr. Dileep Bhandarkar joined Microsoft as a Distinguished Engineer responsible for server hardware architecture and standards for Global Foundation Services (GFS) in May 2007. Global Foundation Services delivers the foundational platform for Microsoft’s online services, including MSN and Windows Live-branded services, Windows Azure, Microsoft Business Productivity Online Services, Xbox LIVE, Bing as well as over 200 additional services and Web portals. He is currently chief architect for GFS, focused on driving new technology initiatives that advance the energy efficiency of Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure. He is a sought after and frequent keynote speaker at industry conferences. Some of his current work and blogs can be found at www.globalfoundationservices.com.

Bhandarkar was elected an IEEE fellow in 1997 for contributions and technical leadership in the design of complex and reduced instruction set architecture and in computer system performance analysis. In 1998, he was recognized as a distinguished alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, where he received his B. Tech in electrical engineering in 1970. He also has a M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and has done graduate work in business administration at the University of Dallas.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Bhandarkar was director of advanced architecture in the CTO Office of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group and a lead spokesperson for evangelizing Intel server platform technologies to the industry and financial analysts. He was an Intel Distinguished Lecturer for several years. He has held several director-level positions related to CPU and platform architecture, and strategic planning over a 12 year career at Intel. He was instrumental in driving the strategic decision to implement AMD-compatible 64-bit x86 architecture at Intel, and pioneered the adoption of energy-efficient microprocessor cores across Intel’s product line.

Prior to joining Intel in 1995, Bhandarkar spent almost 18 years at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he managed processor and system architecture, and performance analysis work related to the VAX, Prism, MIPS, and Alpha architectures. He also worked at Texas Instruments for four years in their research labs in a variety of areas including magnetic bubble memories, charge coupled devices, fault tolerant memories, and computer architecture.

Bhandarkar holds 16 U.S. patents and has published more than 30 technical papers in various journals and conference proceedings. He is also the author of a book titled “Alpha Implementations and Architecture.” He has delivered several keynote speeches at computer and financial industry conferences.

Bhandarkar and his wife love to travel and have a passion for photography. Source

Rajesh Jha is the corporate vice president for the Office 365, Exchange and Forefront products for Office at Microsoft.

Rajesh Jha is the corporate vice president for the Office 365, Exchange and Forefront products for Office at Microsoft. In this capacity, Jha leads the teams responsible for worldwide development of Microsoft Exchange, one of the world's most popular communications systems; Office 365, an online suite of productivity, communications and collaboration services for organizations of all sizes; and Forefront security products for Exchange, SharePoint and Lync. The technologies Jha and his team deliver are used daily by millions of people via PCs, the Web and mobile phones — delivered to the customer as cloud services or on-premises products.

Jha has a long track record of positive contribution to Microsoft. Joining the company right out of university in 1990, he began his career as a software design engineer, working on clients, servers and services. Jha has a master's degree in computer science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a bachelor's degree in computer science from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (Chennai). Source

Gurdeep Singh Pall is the corporate vice president for the Information Platform & Experience team at Microsoft Corp.

Gurdeep Singh Pall is the corporate vice president for the Information Platform & Experience team at Microsoft Corp., and is part of the Online Services Division's senior leadership team. He is responsible for vision, product strategy and R&D for the Bing services and platform that includes mobile, mapping, and speech.

Pall joined Microsoft in January 1990 as a software design engineer. He has worked on many breakthrough products in his tenure, starting with LAN Manager Remote Access Service. Pall was part of the Windows NT development team, working on the first version of Windows NT 3.1 in 1993 as a software design engineer, all the way through Windows XP in 2001 as general manager of Windows Networking. During his work on Windows, he led design and implementation of core networking technologies such as PPP, TCP/IP, UPnP, VPNs, routing and Wi-Fi, and parts of the operating system. Pall co-authored the first VPN protocol in the industry - Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) - which received the prestigious Innovation of the Year award from PC Magazine in 1996. He also authored several documents and standards in the networking area in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards body in the mid-1990s.

Pall was previously the corporate vice president for the Office Lync & Speech Group, overseeing the vision, product strategy and R&D for the Microsoft Lync family of products and Microsoft Tellme services. He was appointed general manager of Windows Real-Time Communications efforts in January 2002 and helped develop a broad strategy that led to the formation of the Real Time Collaboration division and acquisition of PlaceWare Inc. (now called Microsoft Office Live Meeting). Since then, Pall has led acquisitions of media-streams.com AG and Parlano, and key industry partnerships with HP, Polycom and Aspect. Microsoft's Unified Communications efforts have received many technical and design industry awards. Pall was named one of the "15 Innovators & Influencers Who Will Make A Difference" in 2008 by Information Week. He co-authored "Institutional Memory Goes Digital," which was published by Harvard Business Review as part of "Breakthrough Ideas for 2009" and subsequently presented at the World Economic Forum 2009 in Davos.

Pall has more than 20 patents (in process or approved) in networking, VoIP and collaboration areas. He holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of Oregon and an undergraduate degree in computer engineering from Birla Institute of Technology in India.

Pall is on the board of trustees of Ashesi University. Source

S. Somasegar is the corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft.

S. Somasegar is the corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft. Somasegar is responsible for engineering and marketing for developer tools and services, programming languages and runtimes designed for a broad base of software developers and development teams, including the Visual Studio and Expression families of products, .NET Framework, and Team Foundation Server. Somasegar also owns developer evangelism efforts spanning the full array of Microsoft platforms. His team also owns MSDN and TechNet online properties to enable a deep connection with the developer and IT professional audiences. In addition, Somasegar is responsible for the Server and Tools Business Global Development Centers in China, India and Israel and is the executive sponsor for the India Development Center and the Israel Research and Development Center for all of Microsoft.

Somasegar joined Microsoft in 1989 and contributed to eight releases of Windows before leading Developer Division. Somasegar holds a master's degree in computer engineering from Louisiana State University and a bachelor's degree in electronics and communication engineering from Guindy Engineering College, Anna University in Chennai, India.

In 2006, Somasegar was awarded an honorary doctorate from Anna University. In 2008, he was presented the Asian American Engineer of the Year Award.

Somasegar lives in the Seattle area. He and his wife have two daughters. He frequently shares his thoughts via his blog.

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Rajat Taneja is corporate vice president responsible for Microsoft's commerce platform

Rajat Taneja is corporate vice president responsible for Microsoft's commerce platform. The commerce technologies power Microsoft's online consumer and enterprise services enabling multiple business models in cloud computing and delivery of services like Xbox LIVE, Office 365, Windows Phone, and Azure. The commerce platform spans Microsoft's online capabilities in over 200 countries globally serving millions of consumer and enterprise customers.

Taneja joined Microsoft in 1996 and has held a variety of leadership roles across research & development of desktop and online software solutions as well as business and technical operations. His most recent position was corporate vice president in Microsoft's online services division (OSD), responsible for the engineering program management of Microsoft's digital advertising products. The advertising products and their associated platform marketplaces power the company's multi-billion dollar advertising business and include search, display, video, gaming and mobile advertising as well as tools for advertisers and publishers. Previously within OSD, Taneja led a global engineering team responsible for Bing and MSN product search.

In earlier roles, Taneja led Microsoft's small-business efforts within the Microsoft Business Division. During his six years there, Taneja was general manager responsible for the engineering of the small-business product line including desktop and hosted suite of Microsoft Office small business services.

Before joining Microsoft, Taneja was with Digital Equipment Corp., where he was responsible for desktop and open systems products and technology solutions. Taneja also worked for several years at Wipro Technologies.

Taneja holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Jadavpur University, India, and an MBA from Washington State University. Source

Vyomesh Joshi Board of Director at Yahoo ! Inc

Vyomesh Joshi
Executive Vice President, Imaging and Printing Group, Hewlett-Packard Company

Mr. Joshi has served as a member of our Board since July 2005. Mr. Joshi has served as an officer of HP since 2001 including as Executive Vice President of HP's Imaging and Printing Group since 2002. Mr. Joshi served as Chairman of Phogenix Imaging LLC, a joint venture between HP and Eastman Kodak Company, from 2000 until May 2003. Mr. Joshi holds a Master's degree in electrical engineering from Ohio State University.

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K. Ram Shriram at Amazon DOT com

K. Ram Shriram
Board of Director at Google Inc.

K. Ram Shriram has served as a member of our board of directors since September 1998. Ram has been a managing partner of Sherpalo Ventures, LLC, an angel venture investment company, since January 2000. From August 1998 to September 1999, Ram served as Vice President of Business Development at Amazon.com, Inc., an Internet retail company. Prior to that, Ram served as President at Junglee Corporation, a provider of database technology, which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. Ram was an early member of the executive team at Netscape Communications Corporation. Ram is also on the board of trustees of Stanford University. Ram holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Madras, India.

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Nikesh Arora at Google inc.

Nikesh Arora

Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer

Nikesh oversees all revenue and customer operations, as well as marketing and partnerships. Since joining Google in 2004, he has held several positions with the company. Most recently, he led Google’s global direct sales operations. He also developed and managed the company’s operations in the European, Middle Eastern and African markets and was responsible for creating and expanding strategic partnerships in those regions for the benefit of Google’s growing number of users and advertisers.

Prior to joining Google, he was chief marketing officer and a member of the management board at T-Mobile Europe. While there, he spearheaded all product development, terminals, brand and marketing activities of T-Mobile Europe. In 1999, he started working with Deutsche Telekom and founded T-Motion PLC, a mobile multimedia subsidiary of T-Mobile International. Prior to joining Deutsche Telekom, Nikesh held management positions at Putnam Investments and Fidelity Investments in Boston.

Nikesh holds a master’s degree from Boston College and an MBA from Northeastern University, both of which were awarded with distinction. He also holds the CFA designation. In 1989, Nikesh graduated from the Institute of Technology in Varanasi, India with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.

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Pakistan army recruits first Hindu cadet

The Pakistan army has recruited a Hindu for the first time in its nearly 60-year-old history, months after it commissioned a Sikh youth.

Danesh formally donned the Pakistan army colours at a parade on Saturday along with fellow recruits. Danesh, who hails from Tharparker district in rural Sindh bordering Rajasthan, said he was inspired by Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf to join the forces.

“President Musharraf has all the qualities that a great leader should possess,” he was quoted as saying by state-run APP news agency.

He added, “It is my country, and I would serve it to the best of my capabilities and energy to bring a good name to it. We live here as brothers. It never occurred to my mind that I belonged to a religion other than Islam”, he said.

Minorities in Pakistan are allowed to sit in all examinations including those conducted by Inter Services Selection. Source ("PTI," September 25, 2006)

Sanaatan Religion Great People with title ROY

Sanaatan Religion Great People with title ROY

• Annadashankar Roy, Bengali author and poet
• Arundhati Roy, an Indian novelist and peace activist
• Bidhan Chandra Roy, Indian politician
• Bimal Roy, film director
• Brandon Roy, American basketball player
• Drew Roy, American actor who guest stars in Hannah Montana and iCarly
• Bryan Roy, Dutch football (soccer) player
• Claude Roy (politician), Canadian politician
• Deep Roy, actor
• Derek Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
• Dilipkumar Roy, Bengali musician, musicologist, novelist, poet and essayist
• Fabien Roy, politician
• Falguni Roy, Bengali poet
• Gabrielle Roy, author
• Indra Lal Roy, an Indian flying ace of World War I
• Jahor Roy, Bengali actor and comedian
• Jean Sebastien Roy, motocross rider
• Jean-Yves Roy, politician
• Juthika Roy, bhajan singer
• Kalidas Roy, Bengali poet
• Kanu Roy, Indian film actor, and music composer
• Leela Roy, Indian leftist politician, independence activist and social reformer
• M. N. Roy, an Indian-born philosopher and 20th century revolutionary
• Mathieu Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
• Monique Roy Verville, Canadian politician
• Patrick Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
• Prafulla Chandra Roy, Bengali academic and entrepreneur
• Prannoy Roy, Indian media personality
• Prasanna Kumar Roy, Indian educationist
• Ram Mohan Roy Indian religious, social, and educational reformer
• Subodh Roy, Indian independence activist
• Sylvie Roy, Canadian politician
• Tarapada Roy, Bengali author
• William Roy, Scottish surveyor
• Norman Watt-Roy Bassist of Ian Dury & The Blockheads

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