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Sukhi’s – A Blender And A Bucket And The Start Of An Entrepreneurial Journey

By kamla bhatt • May 6th, 2013 • Category: Diaspora, Featured, Ideas, India, Women Achievers Special

Meet Sukhi Singh. She started with a blender and a bucket in her kitchen and conjured up different curry pastes and thus began her entrepreneurial journey. ”We bring Indian food to the mainstream table,” is how she describes her company. Today, her company – Sukhis- is part of the fastest growing ethnic food market in [...]

Mira Nair On The Reluctant Fundamentalist

By kamla bhatt • May 1st, 2013 • Category: Books and Authors, Diaspora, Entertainment, Featured, Hollywood, India, People, Women Achievers Special

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Mira Nair‘s latest films is The Reluctant Fundamentalist. The picture is based on a novel by the same name by Mohsin Hamid. The Reluctant Fundamentalist is an intimate portrait told with anguish and love about the 2 societies: American and South Asian says Mira, who came to the US as a 19 year old undergraduate to [...]

Playwright Anupama Chandrasekhar Part-2

By kamla bhatt • Apr 22nd, 2013 • Category: Books and Authors, Chennai, Diaspora, Featured, India, People, Women Achievers Special

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Anupama Chandrasekhar’s play Disconnect was staged at San Jose Rep in March 2013. We caught up with the Chennai-based playwright when she was in San Jose to attend the West Coast premier of her play. In Part-2 of our conversation Anupama takes us back to her childhood growing up in Madras, now known as Chennai. [...]

Cisco’s Padmasree Warrior

By kamla bhatt • Apr 15th, 2013 • Category: Diaspora, Featured, Ideas, India, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, Women Achievers Special

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Padmasree Warrior is Cisco’s Chief Technology and Strategy Officer. She joined Cisco in 2007 after having spent many years working at Motorola in Chicago. At Motorola she was an Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO). In this wide ranging interview we talk about role of CTO to Cisco’s strategy in an economic downturn [...]