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Jeet Bindra:
Success Follows When People Come First
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In a candid interview with KAVITA CHHIBBER, JEET
BINDRA speaks on Chevron’s foray into India after a 3 decade dry spell, his trip to Pakistan, how corporate America is perceived globally, Chevron’s plans to combat the raging gas crisis and why he believes in the phrase he coined- success follows when people come first.
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Gurdas Maan: Dil Saaf Hona Chahida
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In an exclusive interview with Kavita Chhibber, Gurdaas Maantalks about his journey and why the music of Punjab is such a draw for the world.
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Shaan: Material Success
& Fame are Temporary Things
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In an exclusive interview, with KAVITA CHHIBBER, the incredibly charming, down to earth singer composer and India’s most popular TV host, talks about his musical journey and why wife Radhika and he stay away from the glitter of
Bollywood.
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Dr Prem Kumar’s Ability Mission
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Meet DR. PREM KUMAR, the founder and executive director of the Indian American Education Foundation (www.iaefseattle.org
) and a founding member of the Indian American Political Advocacy Council
(IAPAC). BY VEENA RAO
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It Took a Village to Make Me What I am
Today
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Screenwriter, photographer SOONI TARAPOREVALA in conversation with
VASUDHA BADRI-PAUL.
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Dr Narendra Gupta: Conquering Diabetes
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His mission is to change the lifestyle (and life) of each patient with a holistic, comprehensive and ‘customized’ approach to treating the 'terrible quartet'.
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Nivruti Rai: Dual
Citizen
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First Recipient of India’s Dual Citizenship Sees Greater Role for NRIs
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Saraswati Jain: Charity Begins at Home
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She is 77 years old, a heart patient with severe arthritis that would render a lesser spirit immobile, but
Saraswati Jain has single handedly changed the lives of
several lepers...
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Rita and Sunil Kapahi: The Bend in the Road is not the End of the Road
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Human beings cannot be relegated to being mere statistics. The story of a family's struggle against life's curveballs.
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I’d Like to be Remembered as a Good Human Being: Waheeda Rehman
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The Bollywood icon talks to VEENA RAO about her role as goodwill ambassador of Pratham, her priorities in life, and her forthcoming movies.
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Amjad Ali Khan: After
9/11 & Gujarat Riots I Feel Ashamed to Belong to the Human Race
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KAVITA CHHIBBER in conversation with the sarod
maestro.
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Amaan and Ayaan Ali
Bangash:
In the Footsteps of Their Father
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Amjad Ali Khan's sons are more adventurous, willing to explore and to carve their own style and create a persona that is different from that of their parents.....
BY KAVITA CHHIBBER
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Kiran Desai's Purpose Driven Life
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A father’s personal battle against his son’s cancer becomes a crusade
to save lives.
BY VEENA RAO
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Rahim Paracha: A Passion for Music
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The Atlanta based promoter is in the spotlight for bringing the forthcoming Adnan Sami show, his biggest venture to date.
BY KAVITA CHHIBBER
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Rebecca Valencia: Marching for Peace
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The founder of Veg-Ed has a new passion. Promoting local Global Marches to coincide with the Salt March in India.
BY VEENA RAO
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Robert Arnett Unveiled
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The author of the award winning books
'India Unveiled' and 'Finders Keepers?' talks about his fascinating journey.
BY SEEMA HARIHARAN
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What Keeps Mohan Kapur on the Go?
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Meet the coach who has committed his career to delivering extraordinary performance to organizations, communities and people.
BY VEENA RAO
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Kiran Bedi: In the Spirit of Doing
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India’s celebrated top cop speaks about a career that became a cause.
BY SEEMA HARIHARAN
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The Real Swadesis
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ARAVINDA
& RAVI went back from the US to work in the rural
interiors of India, and were the inspiration behind Ashutosh
Gowariker’s ‘Swades’. A chat with the tireless
twosome- the real Mohan Bhargavs.
BY VEENA RAO
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The Professor
who Predicted the Earthquake
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DR. ARUNACHALAM KUMAR had predicted the powerful earthquake that led to the devastating tsunami, after hearing about
the stranding of large numbers of whales and dolphins on an Australian coast. With more than 110 medical research projects to his credit, and a citation in the Limca Book of Indian
Records for maximum range of scientific publications – the professor’s uncanny ability to predict events, based on scientific analysis, is amazingly eerie.
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Dr Farley Richmond: In
the Quest
of Ancient Indian Theatre
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BY SEEMA HARIHARAN
Dr. Farley Richmond, professor of theatre and drama at the University of Georgia, Athens,
talks about ‘kutiyattam’ (the grandparent of ‘kathakali’) and his interest with Indian theatre.
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Robin Raina : I Have Always Wanted to be Different
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BY KAVITA CHHIBBER
He comes from a Kashmiri Hindu family, the youngest of four children and named Robin because he chattered like the bird as a kid! His father, a secular man with communist leanings taught him about honesty and integrity: his mother inspired him by her courage and inner strength.
Robin Raina didn’t have any lofty dreams-all he knew was he wanted to be different...
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Shiv Aggarwal: Transforming The Indian Shopping Experience
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BY VEENA RAO
A family trip to Toronto, Canada six years ago gave him the idea that was soon to develop into a 220,000 sq. ft community hub, the biggest of its kind in all of North America. When Shiv Aggarwal asked the front desk at the hotel he was staying at for directions to Gerrard Street, the Indian market, a man standing nearby said, “Oh that dirty street?”
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I Am An Entertainer: Vasundhara Das
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BY VEENA RAO
Her face completely devoid of make-up, her porcelain skin gleaming, Vasundhara Das extends her hand with an apology. “I don’t usually chew
paan,” she says impishly. Dressed in casual denim, her short brown hair tousled, the ‘Monsoon Wedding’ girl cuts short her window-shopping at Global Mall with local promoters of her show Gauri Melkote and Tanveer Ahmed and their friend Mustafa Ajmeri to chat up with this reporter.
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I Am a Student of Music:
Hariharan
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BY VEENA RAO
The peppered ponytail is pretty much in place. Backstage at the Robert Ferst Center for the Arts at Georgia Tech after his Atlanta concert, he politely shakes hands, smiles and chats up with his crowd of admirers, switching from English to Hindi to Tamil as only a Bombayaite Tamilian can....
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