Dr. D.Balasubramanium is currently working as a director at The L.V.Prasad Eye Hospital, Hyderabad. He has worked as the Director of CCMB, and has been a Professor & Dean at The University of Hyderabad. His research interests include Molecular and Cellular Approaches to Understand and Treat Diseases of the Eye. He has published more than 145 papers and authored three books. He was awarded the “Padma Shri” – a national honor by the President of India in 2002. He was also awarded The “Chevalier de l’Ordre National de Merite” – a national honor by the President of France in 2002 and has received several other awards.
Nadendla Manohar – Improving the interface between Government and Individual
Mr.Nadendla Manohar is the Deputy Speaker of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He has been elected member of Tenali constituency twice, in 2004 and 2009. He is a chairman of Legislative House Committee on Sarva Siksha Abhiyan and District Primay Education Program. He is a member of Legislative Committee on Environment and Wild Life Protection. He has participated in various conferences viz., First India and Asia Regions Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Conference at Hyderabad, 18th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Annual Parliamentary seminar at Grand Turk.
Mr.Nadendla Manohar is the Deputy Speaker of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He has been elected member of Tenali constituency twice, in 2004 and 2009. He is a chairman of Legislative House Committee on Sarva Siksha Abhiyan and District Primay Education Program. He is a member of Legislative Committee on Environment and Wild Life Protection. He has participated in various conferences viz., First India and Asia Regions Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Conference at Hyderabad, 18th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Annual Parliamentary seminar at Grand Turk, British Virgin Islands and International Conference on Universal Digital Library, Egypt, 2006 and at Carnegie Mellon University, USA, 2007. He has been a National ranked Tennis player and participated in several tournaments in India and Abroad. His other interests are conservation of wild life and interaction with and addressing the needs of the rural poor.
Nagesh Kukunoor is a noted actor and a much sought after director in the Bollywood Industry. Nagesh Kukunoor did his Chemical Engineering from Osmania University and his masters from Georgia, Atlanta and worked as an environmental consultant in the U.S. He gave up his lucrative career to purshis dream of making movies. He has redefined Indian cinema by making successful films like ‘Hyderabad Blues’ on a shoestring budget. His attempt in film making has triggered hosts of other filmmaker to attempt making films of that genre. Nagesh has worked on movies like Iqbal, 3 Deewarein and Dor, which have received many awards and critical acclaim.
Dr. Neeraj Raj – Heads – Malaria… Tails – Jaundice
Dr. Neeraj Raj is synonymous with Multimedia and Animation in Hyderabad since the late 1980’s. As a creative Gold-medalist doctor, he has forayed into various fields – medicine, painting, photography, cartooning, multimedia and animation, each of which he pursues with unbound passion. He has combined these areas of expertise to capture and spread knowledge in his medical domain with a vision to “Transform Healthcare Education” and create a new cadre of healthcare professionals who can serve the needs of rural India. He is a gold medalist in Anatomy, Pathology and General Medicine and the Best Outgoing Student from Osmania Medical College.
Dr. Neeraj Raj
Dr. Neeraj Raj is synonymous with Multimedia and Animation in Hyderabad since the late 1980’s. As a creative Gold-medalist doctor, he has forayed into various fields – medicine, painting, photography, cartooning, multimedia and animation, each of which he pursues with unbound passion. He has combined these areas of expertise to capture and spread knowledge in his medical domain with a vision to “Transform Healthcare Education” and create a new cadre of healthcare professionals who can serve the needs of rural India. He is a gold medalist in Anatomy, Pathology and General Medicine and the Best Outgoing Student from Osmania Medical College. He has exhibited Oil and Watercolor creations in single and group shows. He contributes as a Cartoonist for major News Papers like The Sunday Chronicle and Indian Express. His Cartoons were exhibited at the World Humour Conference. His Innovation combines Medicine, New media and I.T. to explore new paradigms in Medical Education to address the pain points in the current healthcare education system. He is the founder of MEdRC EduTech, DNMS, Sriven MultiTech, Webtoons Inc. The MEdRC’s mission was cited as an example of innovation in specialized Upgradation of education in UNESCO’s global report “Developments and Trends in the Application of ICT in Education”. He was a special invitee to address the Steering Council Meeting of the International Virtual Medical School (IVIMEDS) at Amsterdam in 2007. He conducted a workshop on “The Future of Medical Education” in the University of Alexandria, Egypt in 2008. His awards include The Vaidyashree Award for outstanding contributions to medical education. He is a serving member of the Intel World Ahead Consortium for Digital Health and member of the K-Hub Winners’ Club of the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.
Sachin Ralhan – Demo of Android based Tablet PC
Sachin Ralhan. Co-founder and Director Creatives at
Notion Ink. Management Graduate from IIPM, he is the management face of the firm and heads the Sales & Marketing division at Notion Ink. He is also directly involved in the interaction with clients and companies across the globe. Notion Ink is a firm that works on the development of innovative products in the information, communication and entertainment space.
Sachin Ralhan
Sachin Ralhan. Co-founder and Director Creatives at
Notion Ink. Management Graduate from IIPM, he is the management face of the firm and heads the Sales & Marketing division at Notion Ink. He is also directly involved in the interaction with clients and companies across the globe. Notion Ink is a firm that works on the development of innovative products in the information, communication and entertainment space. Notion Ink feels the need of devices which re-defines the concept of mobility and user-experience, and are working towards bringing convergence to the masses at a faster rate. Notion Ink is developing a Tablet that is based on an unnanounced NVIDIA Tegra T20 chipset supporting 1080p Full HD video playback, has integrated WiFi, Bluetooth and UMTS/HSDPA, the first confirmed device to use the Pixel Qi transflective display. Innovators at Notion Ink are going to present their latest innovation in Smart Pads.
Sharat Chandra is the founder of Butterfly Fields, which believes in learning by doing. He is an IIT and IIM graduate, who ventured into entrepreneurship with a new thought of educating kids with a different teaching methodology. He has started of with conducting workshops during holidays and later expanded it to a yearlong curriculum. The programs comprise of various kinds of activities and experiences, which are specifically designed to make the child understand the underlying concepts or principles and at the same time enjoy it.
Sharat Chandra
Sharat Chandra is the founder of Butterfly Fields, which believes in learning by doing. He is an IIT and IIM graduate, who ventured into entrepreneurship with a new thought of educating kids with a different teaching methodology. He has started of with conducting workshops during holidays and later expanded it to a yearlong curriculum. The programs comprise of various kinds of activities and experiences, which are specifically designed to make the child understand the underlying concepts or principles and at the same time enjoy it. At Butterfly Fields, the child is placed in an atmosphere where he is made to work in a team, is challenged to take decisions, asked to gather information, posed with questions and encouraged to think laterally. Butterfly fields was featured in “Beyond Profit” – May/June 2009, Issue: 10 New Ideas that could Change the World. They have established a Mini-Science Museum cum Science Center at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, which was visited, and much appreciated by NASA Scientists. He has published a paper “7 steps towards being an effective science teacher” in the Indian Science Congress, 2005. He has produced and directed a short children’s film on Organic Foods. Currently Butterfly Fields is working with over 25 schools and had reached out to over 15,000 kids and it has operations in Hyderabad, Vishakhapatnam, Chennai, Bangalore, Cupertino (California) and Warangal.
Karuna Gopal – The truth about Indian Cities
Karuna Gopal is the President of Foundation for Futuristic Cities – an urban advisory services organization whose mission is to make Indian Cities Economically Vibrant, Equitable and Responsive. She contributed to the City Development & Renewal Strategies of five JNNURM Mission cities in India. She worked on city reform projects of DFID (UK), USAID and the World Bank. Based on the theme “Globalizing Indian Cities” she developed knowledge products & policy guidance documents to accelerate Urban Transformation. Believing that instruments aimed at cosmetic changes rarely rectify the systemic problems of Indian Cities and questioning the very paradigm on which they rely on.
Karuna Gopal
Karuna Gopal is the President of Foundation for Futuristic Cities – an urban advisory services organization whose mission is to make Indian Cities Economically Vibrant, Equitable and Responsive. She contributed to the City Development & Renewal Strategies of five JNNURM Mission cities in India. She worked on city reform projects of DFID (UK), USAID and the World Bank. Based on the theme “Globalizing Indian Cities” she developed knowledge products & policy guidance documents to accelerate Urban Transformation. Believing that instruments aimed at cosmetic changes rarely rectify the systemic problems of Indian Cities and questioning the very paradigm on which they rely on. she launched the CITIZENS for CITY initiative. Scalable, replicable and an innovation in the Indian Urban landscape, it is meant to usher governance reforms. She was a faculty / mentor for ASCI/WBI (World Bank Institute) Certification program on Urban Management. She gets invited to speak on Governance Reforms and Leadership for programs meant for Policy Makers and Bureaucrats. She addressed and chaired seminars organized by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FICCI), Ministry of Science & Technology (GOI) , Centre for Good Governance ( CGG) , Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Indian Institute of Management (IIM-A), Indian School of Business (ISB), The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and corporate houses like Infosys, ITC etc. Prior to the urban foray, she was the Founder President of Confluence Consulting, a Strategy Consulting firm. She says that her attraction to challenging assignments is because of personal challenges – her cardiac arrest and suspected brain damage at 14, auto immune disease at 19, losing parents to cancer and renal failure while growing up, an autistic and epileptic 17 yr old son who is her best friend and source of inspiration.
Kanthi Kannan – Walking, is it a fundamental right?
Kanthimathi Kannan is the founder of the
Right to Walk Foundation, an NGO based in Hyderabad that is dedicated to making the roads of the city pedestrian friendly. She has been unrelenting in her fight for pedestrian rights and is a well known figure with the local media in Hyderabad and the Municipal Corporation alike. Her work in bringing to the fore the issues relating to the roads in the city of Hyderabad and the positive externalities of having footpaths and pedestrian crossings have been recognized and lauded by international organizations such as the Asian Development Bank and the United Nations Environment Programme.
Kanthi Kannan
Kanthimathi Kannan is the founder of the
Right to Walk Foundation, an NGO based in Hyderabad that is dedicated to making the roads of the city pedestrian friendly. She has been unrelenting in her fight for pedestrian rights and is a well known figure with the local media in Hyderabad and the Municipal Corporation alike. Her work in bringing to the fore the issues relating to the roads in the city of Hyderabad and the positive externalities of having footpaths and pedestrian crossings have been recognized and lauded by international organizations such as the Asian Development Bank and the United Nations Environment Programme.
Simultaneously with spreading awareness about the problems involved and increasing the membership of the Foundation, Mrs Kannan has been using the RTI Act to gather the necessary information on the issue. Till date she has filed more than 50 RTI petitions seeking information from the concerned authorities. The Right to Walk Foundation is also the first organisation to bring up the issue of pedestrian friendly cities as a facet of human rights and it has filed a petition with the State Human Rights Commission seeking redressal.
This erstwhile educational expert and MBA from Osmania University has but a solitary dream – to one day be able to take a tour of the city of Hyderabad, a city she was born and brought up in, on foot, without putting her life and limbs in peril!
Syed Maqbool Ahmed is the Principal Scientific Officer, Central Instruments Laboratory, University of Hyderabad. He is a Ph.D from Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad. He was an associate professor at Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar and a Research Associate at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA. He was a scientist at ISRO Vikram Sarabhai Space Center, Thiruvananthapuram. Mr. Ahmed has headed a team of five, which designed Chandra’s Altitudinal Composition Explorer (CHACE) for Chandrayaan I. He was a visiting scientist at Swiss Federal Institute, Switzerland.
Deepak Menon – How experiences define products
As Group Design Manager at the Microsoft India Development Center, Deepak Menon leads the User Experience team across the 3 different streams – Consumer & Emerging Markets stream, Information Worker stream and Server & Tools stream. In his first stint at Microsoft, Redmond, Deepak drove the conception and implementation of the “Microsoft Center for Information Work”. This project won the IDSA/Businessweek IDEA Gold Award 2003 in the Design Exploration category. Deepak was also a key member of the User Experience team that defined the “Ribbon” user experience paradigm in Microsoft Office 2007.
Deepak Menon
As Group Design Manager at the Microsoft India Development Center, Deepak Menon leads the User Experience team across the 3 different streams – Consumer & Emerging Markets stream, Information Worker stream and Server & Tools stream. In his first stint at Microsoft, Redmond, Deepak drove the conception and implementation of the “Microsoft Center for Information Work”. This project won the IDSA/Businessweek IDEA Gold Award 2003 in the Design Exploration category. Deepak was also a key member of the User Experience team that defined the “Ribbon” user experience paradigm in Microsoft Office 2007. Prior to returning to Microsoft in August 2008, Deepak was at Google from December 2005 and served first as the Site User Experience Head at Google Seattle till June 2007 and subsequently as the Site User Experience Head at Google Bangalore. During his time at Google, Deepak worked on Google Talk and real time communication in Gmail & Google docs, Google Maps, Google Map Maker, Google Video and products showcased in Google India Labs. Deepak earned his B.Arch. from NIT Trichy and his M.Arch. & M.F.A. from The Ohio State University.
Raj is a cement technologist having worked with Big 4 and Global companies in the field of Engineering, IT & Business consulting. He has worked in various industries, travelled widely supporting global customers with business solutions. Raj is one of the founders of Hobby Hub – Heart of Living. Hobby Hub is created to nurture hobbies as “A One stop Destination for Hobbies”, with a vision to connect with nature and
- Go Green
- Care and Share
- Drive your passion & creativity
Raj Shekher
Raj is a cement technologist having worked with Big 4 and Global companies in the field of Engineering, IT & Business consulting. He has worked in various industries, travelled widely supporting global customers with business solutions. Raj is one of the founders of Hobby Hub – Heart of Living. Hobby Hub is created to nurture hobbies as “A One stop Destination for Hobbies”, with a vision to connect with nature and
- Go Green
- Care and Share
- Drive your passion & creativity
Hobby Hub has different hobby themes at one place viz.
- Green Zone: Herbal Garden, Vertical Gardening, Bonsais, Exotic Plants and Orchids
- Pet Zone: Rabbits, Hamsters, Guinea Pigs, Mice, Birds and small pets
- Aqua Zone: Tropical, Marine, Invertebrates, Aquariums and Ponds
- Creative Zone: Pottery, Arts & Crafts, Aero-modelling and more.
The idea is to de-stress from the rat race, enjoy life, pursue what you love, imbibe creativity & develop a well rounded personality and be close to nature.
Vasudeva Varma – Realising HAL (Space Odyssey) SILKy computing
Vasudeva Varma is a faculty member at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad Since 2002. Prior to joining IIIT Hyderabad, he was the president of MediaCognition India Pvt. Ltd and Chief Architect at MediaCognition Inc. (Cupertino, CA). Earlier he was the director of Engineering and research at InfoDream Corporation, Santa Clara, CA. He also worked for Citicorp and Muze Inc. in New York as senior consultant. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad in 1996. He has five patent applications and several publications in journals and conferences.
Vasudeva Varma
Vasudeva Varma is a faculty member at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad Since 2002. Prior to joining IIIT Hyderabad, he was the president of MediaCognition India Pvt. Ltd and Chief Architect at MediaCognition Inc. (Cupertino, CA). Earlier he was the director of Engineering and research at InfoDream Corporation, Santa Clara, CA. He also worked for Citicorp and Muze Inc. in New York as senior consultant. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad in 1996. He has five patent applications and several publications in journals and conferences. In 2004, he obtained young scientist award and grant from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, for his proposal on personalized search engines. In 2007, he was given Research Faculty Award by AOL Labs. His research interests include search (information retrieval), information extraction, information access, knowledge management, cloud computing and software engineering. He is heading the Search and Information Extraction Lab and Software Engineering Research Lab at IIIT Hyderabad.
Dancer, choreographer
Dr. Ananda Shankar Jayant, with an acclaimed and intense body of artistic work, that spans rich mythologies historical chronicles, searing commentary on gender issues, as well as secular & philosophical presentation, continues to stretch the outer realms of artistic endeavor, using the grammar, idiom and space-time construct of Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi making it at once contemporary and communicative.
Dancing with joy, Ananda, one of the renowned dancers of the country; imbues technique and grammar with a sparkling quality, bristling with life. Hailed as an intelligent and thinking dancer with contemporary sensibility, Ananda, with her grace, vivacity and inner luminescence draws the viewer into the inner spaces that she paints, leaving the audience deeply touched.
Ananda Shankar Jayant
Dancer, choreographer
Dr. Ananda Shankar Jayant, with an acclaimed and intense body of artistic work, that spans rich mythologies historical chronicles, searing commentary on gender issues, as well as secular & philosophical presentation, continues to stretch the outer realms of artistic endeavor, using the grammar, idiom and space-time construct of Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi making it at once contemporary and communicative.
Dancing with joy, Ananda, one of the renowned dancers of the country; imbues technique and grammar with a sparkling quality, bristling with life. Hailed as an intelligent and thinking dancer with contemporary sensibility, Ananda, with her grace, vivacity and inner luminescence draws the viewer into the inner spaces that she paints, leaving the audience deeply touched.
A breathtaking performer, brilliant choreographer and erudite scholar, Ananda has polished her art to a fine pitch, where the rigor and intensity of training, deep dedication and commitment meets a finely tuned intellect, that blends with ease traditional structures with contemporary inputs.
Richly honoured and widely travelled, Ananda’s critically acclaimed productions include –
‘Sri Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum’, ‘Buddham Saranam Gachchami’, ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull’, ‘What About Me?,’ ‘Expressions of Truth’ on the ideals of the Mahatma, a mixed media work –
‘An Easel Called Life’ with paintings
‘Navarasa-Expressions of Life’, ‘Darshanam – An Ode to the Eye’, ‘Mohana…Krsna beckons’, ‘Dancing Tales…Panchatantra’, ‘Sacred Number – 108′ and
‘Sri Rama Namam – Entha Ruchi Ra’.
She was conferred with the prestigious
Padmashri,in 2007 by His Excellency the President of India, Shri APJ Abdul Kalam in recognition of her distinguished service in the field of art. She was also conferred with the sought after title of
Nritya – Choodamani by Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, the
Kalaimamani from the Govt of Tamil Nadu and the award of
Kalaratna from the Govt of Andhra Pradesh. She has been hailed as one of the
top ten stars of dance in India by
Attendance, India’s only dance annual.
Ananda holds a Masters Degree in Archaeology (University Topper) and History, a M. Phil in Art History (Development of Bharatanatyam – Role of Kalakshetra), and a PhD in Tourism. She is also a senior officer of the Indian Railways, and belongs to the Indian Railway Traffic Service
She is also a much sought after speaker on dance, art addressing social issues, classical arts in a contemporary society, gender issues, women studies, multi tasking, climate change and breast cancer
She calls herself a Breast cancer conqueror, having battled the disease over the last year, and supports other breast cancer survivors, as the Convenor of
Asha a support and advocacy group for breast cancer
Smitha Madhav is a gifted singer and dancer. She is a fine danseuse with several solo performances and ballets to her credit. She has a melodious voice coupled with tremendous depth and expression.
Smitha has given numerous performances in music and dance recitals in India and abroad. In addition to being trained as a performer by her distinguished Gurus, Smitha has also sought to acquire a strong theoretical foundation in Bharatanatyam dance and Carnatic Music.
Smitha Madhav
Smitha Madhav is a gifted singer and dancer. She is a fine danseuse with several solo performances and ballets to her credit. She has a melodious voice coupled with tremendous depth and expression.
Smitha has given numerous performances in music and dance recitals in India and abroad. In addition to being trained as a performer by her distinguished Gurus, Smitha has also sought to acquire a strong theoretical foundation in Bharatanatyam dance and Carnatic Music.
Smitha has maintained an outstanding academic record throughout school and college. She is a gold medalist in law and has received the Pratibha scholarship from the government of Andhra Pradesh for 5 consecutive years.
Smitha has been awarded the Bala Chaitanya Award for outstanding performance in Bharatanatyam by Aradhana Cultural Association. She was awarded the Ugadi Purashkar Award by the Madras Telugu Academy and the Kala Shravanthi Award by Annamacharya Vignana Peetham in recognition of her excellence in Music and Dance. She also received the Women’s Achievers Award, from the Government of Andhra Pradesh.
Iqbal Patni is a noted poet known for using simple words and pleasing rhythm to communicate his thoughts effectively to the audiences. He developed his own style of recital, which coupled with his sensuous voice brings out positive emotions and euphoria in the audience.
Iqbal Patni has penned numerous songs and scripted and narrated many events. His poetic talent has been appreciated and applied by some renowned names in the entertainment industry like A.R Rahman, Illayaraja, Anaida, Talat Aziz and Raj Kumar Rizvi.
Iqbal Patni
Iqbal Patni is a noted poet known for using simple words and pleasing rhythm to communicate his thoughts effectively to the audiences. He developed his own style of recital, which coupled with his sensuous voice brings out positive emotions and euphoria in the audience.
Iqbal Patni has penned numerous songs and scripted and narrated many events. His poetic talent has been appreciated and applied by some renowned names in the entertainment industry like A.R Rahman, Illayaraja, Anaida, Talat Aziz and Raj Kumar Rizvi.
Iqbal Patni created a Unique Concept “Tasveer Ki Aawaz” (The voice of Images) by fusing the imagery of Artists with his poetic verses. The presentation of Tasveer Ki Aawaz has mesmerized audiences and affectively produced a new dimension where diverse Arts compliment each other. Popular fashion designers like Manish Malhotra, Wendell Rodricks, Gitanjali Kashyap, Krishna Mehta, Satya Paul and Vinita Pittei have showcased their collection using this concept of blending Poetry with Fashion.
Mr. Mujeeb – Learning leadership while uplifting communities
Mujeeb is Founding President of
BHUMI, which is a “Center for Grass Roots Leadership” fuelled by a vision to create an equitable and strife free society by grooming transformational leaders who will bring about large scale, holistic and sustainable transformation.
He has worked in a variety of sectors such as manufacturing, non profits, advertising; with a wide variety of clients including government, industry, the voluntary sector and international development agencies.
Mr. Mujeeb
Mujeeb is Founding President of
BHUMI, which is a “Center for Grass Roots Leadership” fuelled by a vision to create an equitable and strife free society by grooming transformational leaders who will bring about large scale, holistic and sustainable transformation.
He has worked in a variety of sectors such as manufacturing, non profits, advertising; with a wide variety of clients including government, industry, the voluntary sector and international development agencies. He brings in a unique perspective to organizational consulting as a result of his work in establishing BHUMI as a unique social enterprise in the area of leadership building across multiple levels in society apart from the consulting assignments with both non profits and industry. In addition, Mujeeb brings in “people skills” as a result of his direct work in enabling leadership in more than 700 college students and young professionals from Hyderabad as a part of the tutoring mentoring initiative of BHUMI.
PJ is an independent animation designer, screenwriter and media educator. His short films have been screened in film festivals worldwide and won him various international accolades. An alumnus and former member of the faculty of the National Institute of Design, he has been a guest speaker at major National seminars, Film festivals and Animation forums. His articles related to animation content development and media education have been published on various on-line and print platforms. Prior to his independent venture, PJ was associated with Toonz Animation India as Director, Special Projects, working on IP Creation, Script Writing, Voice Acting, Stop Motion, Production Design and Film Workshops for Children.
Jyotirmaya Sharma is professor of political science at the University of Hyderabad, India. His recent publications include, Hindutva: Exploring the Idea of Hindu Nationalism (Penguin/Viking, 2003) and Terrifying Vision: M.S. Golwalkar, the RSS and India (Penguin/Viking, 2007). He is also the co-editor of Grounding Morality: Freedom, Knowledge and the Plurality of Cultures (Routledge, 2010). He is currently working on the thought of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Tagore and Gandhi (to be published by Penguin/Viking in 2009), while simultaneously working on a book exploring the life and ideas of Gandhi.
Jyotirmaya Sharma
Jyotirmaya Sharma is professor of political science at the University of Hyderabad, India. His recent publications include, Hindutva: Exploring the Idea of Hindu Nationalism (Penguin/Viking, 2003) and Terrifying Vision: M.S. Golwalkar, the RSS and India (Penguin/Viking, 2007). He is also the co-editor of Grounding Morality: Freedom, Knowledge and the Plurality of Cultures (Routledge, 2010). He is currently working on the thought of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Tagore and Gandhi (to be published by Penguin/Viking in 2009), while simultaneously working on a book exploring the life and ideas of Gandhi. He has been a fellow of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, and has lectured at the universities of Baroda, Hull, Oxford, and the St. Stephens College, Delhi. He was visiting professor in democratic theory at the South Asia Institute at Ruprecht-Karls University at Heidelberg in 2005. The International House, Japan, awarded him the Asia Leadership Fellow Programme fellowship for 2008. Sharma also held senior editorial positions at the Times of India and The Hindu between 1998-2006. He is a trained Hindustani classical musician.
Kannan Ramasubramanian (Kanna) is a Principal Program Manager at the Emerging Markets Labs (EM Labs) group at the Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC) in Hyderabad. Kanna has been with Microsoft for about seven years. In his current role, Kanna incubates and evangelizes product and solution ideas aimed at consumers in emerging markets (with special emphasis on India) to business leaders and executives within the company. His latest passion is developing user experiences for technology solutions within constrained user environments. Prior to joining Microsoft, Kanna was co-founder and Director of Product Development at eSelf Inc., a software startup based out of Palo Alto, CA.
Kannan Ramasubramanian (Kanna) is a Principal Program Manager at the Emerging Markets Labs (EM Labs) group at the Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC) in Hyderabad. Kanna has been with Microsoft for about seven years. In his current role, Kanna incubates and evangelizes product and solution ideas aimed at consumers in emerging markets (with special emphasis on India) to business leaders and executives within the company. His latest passion is developing user experiences for technology solutions within constrained user environments. Prior to joining Microsoft, Kanna was co-founder and Director of Product Development at
eSelf Inc., a software startup based out of Palo Alto, CA. Kanna established and built out the Indian operations of eSelf in Bangalore and released its two flagship products – the eSelf Intelligence Infrastructure Platform and Mulgrew, a corporate knowledge management portal. Kanna was a founding member of yet another Silicon Valley startup called Aslan Computing, a boutique services firm that provided consulting and implementation services to clients in and around the San Francisco Bay Area on Internet and Intranet applications and infrastructure. Kanna graduated with a B.Sc. in Computer Technology from the Government College of Technology (GCT), Coimbatore in 1990. He is the
co-author of 3 books published by MacMillan Publications’ Que Series on the subject of Internet and Intranet applications and infrastructure, and has multiple patent applications to his credit. Outside of his professional definition, Kanna fancies himself a writer of sorts and hopes to write the great Indian screenplay some day – that is if he can ever drag himself away from geeking out on home electronics every free moment he gets.
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