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Where did India's corporate honchos do their MBA?

They are the best in their business, and feature in the Forbes Richest list year after year. So where do you think India's top CEOs, corporate honchos and business magnates did their business studies? We take a look at seven of the best.

Ratan Tata, Chairman of Tata Sons

 

Tata graduated from Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai, did his Bachelor of Science degree in architecture from Cornell University in 1962. Then he went to the US to do Advanced Management Program by Harvard Business School in 1975. This Management course at HBS is designed for someone already in the field who wants to better their prospects.

Ratan Tata is also the chairman of Tata Steel, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Motors, Tata Power, Tata Tea, The Indian Hotels Company, Tata Chemicals and Tata Teleservices. During his tenure, the group's revenues have grown nearly 13-fold.

Mukesh Ambani

Chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries

 

Mukesh Ambani studied in The Scindia School, Gwalior. He is a chemical engineer from the Institute of Chemical Technology, University of Mumbai. Mukesh pursued his MBA at Stanford University, USA. With a personal wealth valued at $29 billion by Forbes Magazine, Mukesh Ambani is world's fourth richest and Asia's wealthiest person.

KV Kamath, Non-executive Chairman of ICICI Bank

Kamath was ICICI Bank's Managing Director and CEO from May 1996 to his retirement in April 2009. After completing Higher Secondary and Pre-University from St Aloysius School, Kamath joined the Karnataka Regional Engineering College for Mechanical Engineering. Then, in 1969, he joined the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad for his Masters in Business Administration.

Rahul Bajaj, Bajaj Auto

After attending St. Stephen's College Delhi for his BA Economics, and the Government Law College Bombay for LLB, Rahul Bajaj went to the US to do his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1964. Being awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2001, Bajaj was listed twentieth on the Forbes India's Richest in 2010.

Anil Ambani

Chairman of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group

 

  

Anil Ambani completed his Bachelor of Science from Mumbai University. He went to the US to do an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. It is the same university that later honoured Dhirubhai Ambani with the Dean's Medal for setting an outstanding example of leadership. Anil Ambani is the fourth richest man in India, according to Forbes.

Anand Mahindra

Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Mahindra & Mahindra

 

Anand Mahindra graduated from Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts and completed his MBA from Harvard Business School, Boston. He is Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Mahindra & Mahindra. After Anand's entry, Mahindra & Mahindra started the Kotak Mahindra Bank and Tech Mahindra. The IT section acquired Satyam Computer Services Ltd and renamed it Mahindra Satyam following the 2007 scandal.

Adi Godrej, Godrej Group

 

Adi Godrej did his bachelor's degree and master's degree in management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the family business. One of Indian's richest men, with a net worth of $3.3 billion, Adi Godrej is credited with modernising his family's business.

contributed by Mr. Bhaskaran 

"Great women are not considered so because of personal achievements, but for the effect their efforts have had on the lives of countless others. From daring feats of bravery to the understated ways of a compassionate heart, great women possess a common strength of character. Through their passion and persistence, they have advanced womanhood and the world."
~ Peggy Anderson

Concert - Maali ( Flute)

1. http://www.mediafire.com/?13y0xbh7wmycq34 O jagadamba nannu - Aanandhabairavi 
2. http://www.mediafire.com/?wt1n3dyx9dxodlf Sudha maadhurya - Sindhu ramakriya 
3. http://www.mediafire.com/?vu2u752v6v57bnr Toli ninnu jesina - Kokiladhwani 
4. http://www.mediafire.com/?m3mcr4m641l2wlc smara janaka - Behaag 
5. http://www.mediafire.com/?dpk5a0z85layc2r Ika nannu brova - Bhairavi 
6. http://www.mediafire.com/?j59h5dq9ovhdvdc Evari maata vinna - Kaambodhi 
7. http://www.mediafire.com/?dp8w39mx55oflr2 RTP - Sahaana 
8. http://www.mediafire.com/?a4i3f88b03wla6h Apadhoorukulanoiti - Kamaas 
9. http://www.mediafire.com/?yt32jnz7tyulby4 Chinnanchiru kiliye - Kaapi 
10. http://www.mediafire.com/?msugf6g9pw40uub Mangalam

But, it is interesting to read

This discipline among Muslims, while praying, is what I admire
Sanskrit interpretations- VERY INTERESTING. MUST READ

An inscription and a Greek account fix Muhammad's birth in 552, not
570. Muhammad's career took place not in Mecca but hundreds of
kilometers to the north. Yehuda Nevo. The classical Arabic language
was developed not in today's Saudi Arabia but in the Levant.

Long before Islam came in to existence, Kaaba, in Mecca in Saudi
Arabia was a pilgrimage site. The word Kaaba might have come from
the Tamil Language which originated around 1700BC. In Tamil Nadu
Kabaalishwaran temple is Lord Shiva's temple and Kabaali refers to
Lord Shiva. The black stone at Kaaba is held sacred and holy in
Islam and is called "Hajre Aswad" from the Sanskrit word Sanghey
Ashweta or Non-white stone. The Shiva Lingam is also called Sanghey
Ashweta. So what is in Kaaba could be the same what Hindus worship.

The pedestal Maqam-E-Ibrahim at the centre of the Kaaba is octagonal
in shape. In Hinduism, the pedestal of Brahma the creator is also
octagonal in shape. Muslim pilgrims visiting the Kaaba temple go
around it seven times. In no other mosque does the circumambulation
prevail. Hindus invariably circumambulate or Pradakshina, around
their deities. This is yet another proof that the Kaaba shrine is a
pre-Islamic. In Shiva temples Hindus always practice
circumambulation or Pradakshina. Just as in Hinduism, the custom of
circumambulation by muslim pilgrims around the entire Kaaba building
seven times shows that the claim that in Islam they don't worship
stones is not true.

Allah was one of the deities in Kaaba long before Islam was founded.
It might come as a stunning revelation to many that the word `ALLAH'
itself is Sanskrit. In Sanskrit language Allah, Akka and Amba are
synonyms. They signify a goddess or mother. The term `ALLAH' forms
part of Sanskrit chants invoking goddess Durga, also known as
Bhavani, Chandi and Mahishasurmardini. The Islamic word for God is.,
therefore, not an innovation but the ancient Sanskrit appellation
retained and continued by Islam. Allah means mother or goddess and
mother goddess.

The King Vikramaditya inscription was found on a gold dish hung
inside the Kaaba shrine in Mecca, proving beyond doubt that the
Arabian Peninsula formed a part of his Indian Empire. (Ref: page 315
of a volume known as `Sayar-ul-Okul' treasured in the Makhtab-e-
Sultania library in Istanbul, Turkey). King Vikrama's preachers had
succeeded in spreading the Vedic Hindu sacred scriptures in Arabia
and Arabs were once followers of the Indian Vedic way of life. The
annual fair known as OKAJ which used to be held every year around
the Kaaba temple in Mecca and the present annual hajj of the Muslims
to the Kaaba is of earlier pre-Islamic congregation. . Even to this
day ancient Siva emblems can be seen. It is the Shankara (Siva)
stone that Muslim pilgrims reverently touch and kiss in the Kaaba.

Muslims shave their head and beard and don special sacred attire
that consists of two seamless sheets of white cloth. One is to be
worn round the waist and the other over the shoulders. Both these
rites are remnants of the old Vedic practice of entering Hindu
temples clean and with holy seamless white sheets. According to the
Encyclopedia Britannica, the Kaaba has 360 idols. Traditional
accounts mention that one of the deities among the 360 destroyed
when the place was stormed was that of Saturn; another was of the
Moon and yet another was one called Allah. That shows that in the
Kaaba the Arabs worshipped the nine planets in pre-Islamic days. In
India the practice of `Navagraha' puja, that is worship of the nine
planets, is still in vogue. Two of these nine are Saturn and Moon.
In India the crescent moon is always painted across the forehead of
the Siva symbol. Since that symbol was associated with the Siva
emblem in Kaaba it came to be grafted on the flag of Islam.

The Hindu Vedic letter in Sanskrit "OM" if seen in a mirror one can
see the Arabic numbers 786 and this is the most sacred number for
Muslims and copies of the Arabic Koran have the mysterious figure
786 imprinted on them. In their ignorance simply they do not realize
that this special number is nothing more than the holiest of Vedic
symbols misread and none of the Arabic scholar has been able to
determine how they chose 786 as the sacred for them. In short
muslims are also going around Siva Lingam at Kaaba, seven times as
Hindus go around it seven times.

A few miles away from Mecca are a big signboard which bars the entry
of any non-Muslim into the area. This is a reminder of the days when
the Kaaba was stormed and captured solely for the newly established
faith of Islam. The object in barring entry of non-Muslims was
obviously to prevent its recapture. Kaaba is clothed in a black
shroud. This custom also originated from the days when it was
thought necessary to discourage its recapture by camouflaging it.

Another Hindu tradition associated with the Kaaba is that of the
sacred stream Ganga (sacred waters of the Ganges river). According
to the Hindu tradition Ganga is also inseparable from the Shiva
emblem as the crescent moon. Wherever there is a Siva emblem, Ganga
must co-exist. True to that association a sacred fount exists near
the Kaaba. Its water is held sacred because it has been
traditionally regarded as Ganga since pre-Islamic times (Zam-Zam
water).

Mail received from Mr. Yessel Narasimhan 

tramu said...

Hello Sir, Thanks for your wonderful post about islam & religion. All these details are available with Brahma Kumaris Spiritual University which is head quarted in Mount Abu. Just browse some of the video of Brahma Kumaris, you will come to know that "GOD is One" and his name is 'Sadha Shiva'. Sadha means 'Always'. Shiva means who does good to his kids(humans). 'Shiva' doesn't belog to any religion. Muslims call him as 'Allah', Hindus calls him as 'Shiva', Christins calls him as Yohova...and the people who started their religion never claimed that they are GOD. GOD definition: 1.God will not have any body like us. Ex:We cann't claim Sri krishna, Sri Rama as God. They are deities. We have 33 crore deities in Hinduism. 2.God will not take the birth from mother's womb as we/deities take. The interesting kowledge they give you when you go to their institution(free of cost), enlightens a lot. I wish you should visit once to the nearest Brahma Kumaris Institution...... Thanks for reading...... REgards, Thulasi

September 29, 2010 6:48 PM

Harisankar said...

knew about this from the book 'autobiography of a yogi'. interesting of course but, not very useful information to make a change.

September 29, 2010 8:04 PM

Harisankar said...

not very useful as in not very useful in knocking sense into the masses

September 29, 2010 8:05 PM

11 year old's devotion and melody.

A girl of 11 years old, by Name MS. Sharada from USA has rendered the songs rendered originally by Maharajapuram Santhanam.

1. She has handled ragas such as Bageshri, Durga and Yamuna Kalyani with much finesse and polish that you have to listen to it yourself to believe it.

2. The songs rendered has been slightly modified from its original version sung by Late Shri Maharajapuram Santhanam. There is an impressive new added Chitteswaram in Ranjini.

3. In some of the songs she blazes through with double speed that is very clear, accurate and on time.

courtesy: Nagaraja at Rasikapriya-dot-net

I recommend you not to miss this, just for the pleasure of hearing with a feeling that a girl next door is singing. Thinking that you may love it, I am posting them here.

1. http://www.mediafire.com/?ljny2k9inben2ej Mahaganapathi - Thilang 
2. http://www.mediafire.com/?x5afy2bgo7xkale Madhura madhura - Bhageshri 
3. http://www.mediafire.com/?g4rjb1uo27c9uoc Hey govindhaa - Hindholam 
4. http://www.mediafire.com/?tuib6fc6mw2na9a Vandheham sharada - Yamuna kalyaani 
5. http://www.mediafire.com/?3gh8wwwzc1gn3l8 Dhakshinamurthe - Ranjani 
6. http://www.mediafire.com/?34r9s8r6c41agdc Shankaracharyam - Mohanam 
7. http://www.mediafire.com/?yosnjxbecfh6nk9 Raamam bhaje - Dhurga 
8. http://www.mediafire.com/?19t0h3laov7qt49 Bho shambo - Revathi

 

Thanks to Dr. Shasidhar, Sharada's father, for sending this photo.

Anonymous said...

Nice rendition, need to watch for more collections from this young talent. By the way the last file Bho Sambo seems to be corrupted.. can you pls check and correct. Thanks. RK

November 20, 2010 10:44 AM

Concert - Gayathri Girish

Download 01  Saami niine kori.mp3 - Sri
Download 02 Sidhdhi vinaayakam.mp3 - Shanmugapriya
Download 03 Aalaapana.mp3 - Aanandhabairavi
Download 04 Violin.mp3
Download 05 Marivere gadhi.mp3 - Aanandhabairavi
Download 06.Omkarana mp3 - Begadaa
Download 07 Navarathna.mp3 - Navarathna vilasini
Download 08 Idadhu padham.mp3 - Kamaas
Download 09 Aalaapana.mp3 - Kalyaani
Download 10 violin.mp3
Download 11 Kamalaambaam bahare.mp3 - Kalyaani
Download 12 Thani.mp3
Download 13 Irakkam varaamal.mp3 - Behaag
Download 14 Innudhaya.mp3 - Kalyaanavasandham

"There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."
~ Norman Vincent Peale

r b subramanian said...

Dear Sri Hariharan, Item No.5 - Mariveregathi - I am not able to download. Can You please check it up? Thanks and regards RBS

September 28, 2010 6:23 PM

hvaidya said...

Dear Mr. rbs, It is very much opening. Please try again. If the problem persists, Please let me know.

September 30, 2010 8:04 PM

Smile ! It is good for health

After reading my posting "Basic Essentials of Dinner Table Etiquette" one of the readers Mr. saras has made a comment. Since many of you may not read that, I thought  you should not miss that beautiful comment. So I am posting this here.


A friend of mine asked me what does the abbreviation RSVP on the Invitation stand for. While I was explaining to him that it was a French term "Respondez S'il Vous Plait" asking the guest to confirm his attendance, my witty uncle quipped "Romba Seri Varen PO".

Do you know ?

Mercedes:
This was actually financier's daughter's name

Adobe:
This came from the name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock

Apple Computers:
It was the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobbs. He was three months late for filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 o'clock that day

CISCO:
It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco .

Compaq:
This name was formed by using COMp, for computer and PAQ to denote a small integral object

Corel:
The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland Research Laboratory.

Google:
The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol',a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Pagepresented their project to an angel investor; they received a cheque made out to 'Google'.

Hotmail:
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. WhenSabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters"html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing

Hewlett Packard :
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Intel:
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ' Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.

Lotus (Notes) :
Mitch Kapoor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or'Padmasana' . Kapoor used to be a teacher of transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Microsoft:
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.

Motorola:
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.

Sony:
It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

SUN:
Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer;Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.

Apache:
It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon.. The result was 'A PAtCHy' server --thus, the name Apache Jakarta (project from Apache):A project constituted by SUN and Apache to create a web server handling servlets and JSPs. Jakarta was name of the conference room at SUN where most of the meetings between SUN and Apache took place.

C:
Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it 'New B'.He later called it C. Earlier B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bon programming language (named after his wife Bonnie).

C++:
Bjarne Stroustrup called his new language 'C with Classes' and then 'new C'. Because of which the original C began to be called 'old C' which was considered insulting to the C community. At this time Rick Mascitti suggested the name C++ as a successor to C.

Java:
Originally called Oak by creator James Gosling, from the tree that stood outside his window, the programming team had to look for a substitute as there was no other language with the same name. Java was selected from a list of suggestions. It came from the name of the coffee that the programmers drank.

LG:
Combination of two popular Korean brands Lucky and Gold star.

Linux:
Linus Torvalds originally used the Minix OS on his system which here placed by his OS. Hence the working name was Linux (Linus' Minix). He thought the name to be too egotistical and planned to name it Freax(free+ freak + x).His friend Ari Lemmke encouraged Linus to upload it to a network so it could be easily downloaded. Ari gave Linus a directory called linux on his FTP server, as he did not like the name Freax.(Linus' parents named him after two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling) .

Mozilla:
When Marc Andreesen, founder of Netscape, created a browser to replace Mosaic (also developed by him), it was named Mozilla (Mosaic-Killer, Godzilla) .The marketing guys didn't like the name however and it was re-christened Netscape Navigator.

Red Hat:
Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone!

SAP:
"Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by 4 ex-IBM employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/Projects' group of IBM.

SCO (UNIX):
From Santa Cruz Operation. The company's office was in Santa Cruz .

UNIX:
When Bell Labs pulled out of MULTICS (MULTiplexed Information and Computing System), which was originally a joint Bell/GE/MIT project, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs wrote a simpler version of the OS.They needed the OS to run the game Space War which was compiled under MULTICS. It was called UNICS - UNIplexed operating and Computing System by Brian Kernighan. It was later shortened to UNIX.

Xerox:
The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say `dry' (as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying). The Greek root `xer' means dry.

Yahoo!:
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels' . It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.

3M:
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company started off by mining the material corundum used to make sandpaper.

moneycone said...

Awesome list! Sony actually comes from Sound Nippon (Nippon is a synonym for Japan)

September 25, 2010 6:33 AM

Harisankar said...

knew most of it.

September 25, 2010 7:00 PM

Embar on Thiyagaraja

1. http://www.mediafire.com/?n7o8wuyiscj01iw Thiyagaraja - 1 
2. http://www.mediafire.com/?5v5fq18e95ggv82 Thiyagaraja - 2 
3. http://www.mediafire.com/?81wike8oake774l Thiyagaraja - 3 
4. http://www.mediafire.com/?gzpahb96hlz9wz2 Thiyagaraja - 4  
5. http://www.mediafire.com/?bxg2gko6knqnizk Thiyagaraja - 5

VENKATARAMANI said...

Dear Sir, Will you please upload Unnikrishnan's songs. Venkataramani K

November 25, 2010 8:43 PM

hvaidya said...Do you mean P. Unnikrishnan's songs? Please see under the label "Concerts." His songs are available there. Some of his songs available under carnatic music raagas also

November 26, 2010 12:05 AM

Concert - Madurai Mani Iyer

Download 01 - Vatapi.mp3
Download 02- O_Jegadamba.mp3
Download 03 - Brahaspathe.mp3
Download 04 - Ninnunera.mp3
Download 05 - Brocheva - Kamas.mp3
Download 06 - Bhairavi.mp3
Download 07 - Sri Kamalambam.mp3
Download 08 - Sankarabaranam.mp3
Download 09 - Enthuku Pethala.mp3
Download 10 - Thani.mp3
Download 11 - contd..mp3
Download 12 - Ka Va Va.mp3
Download 13 - Saarasamuki.mp3
Download 14 - RTP - Simmendira Madhyamam.mp3
Download 15 - RTP -contd..mp3
Download 16 - Paarukulle.mp3
Download 17 - Virutham ,Mangalam.mp3

callezee said...

He is my legend,,awesome man,..

September 23, 2010 7:16 PM

My diary - 19th Septemeber 2010

Dear Readers,

You may be remembering one label in my blog in the name of "Spiritual discourses" with Tanjore Temple photo, and in that I have provided links of spiritual discourses provided by one Mr. Swaminathan. There were many who were complaining to me that the link is not opening. I also assured that I will look into it, but I completely forgot about it. A reminder from Mr. V. Viswanathan yesterday made me to look into that. I realised I have given the link without making it available through web. Hence, you readers could not open and download them.

Now I have uploaded the link through rapidshare and you can download the big list of discourses and then download them one by one. I am sorry for the delay, and I am confident, once you get the links you will feel happy and excuse me for the delay.

With greetings
Hariharan