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In Lord Rama merges the Mahatma

January 30, 2006 – 8:39 am

Mahatma Gandhiji
Barrister, servant of society, relentless toiler for the freedom of his people, non-violent crusader for amity and peace, and pillar of the Indian National Congress, Gandhiji had been working on a draft revised Constitution for the party almost ceaselessly. The work left the frail man of 107 pounds (with indomitable will and energy of a Titan) severely exhausted. On the January 29, 1948 he had told his associates, I am very tired. Yet I must finish this task.

He dictated, wrote carefully and precisely, and corrected meticulously his ideas on what the Congress should do. The major points he made for the party’’s programme in the post-Independence phase were,The Congress as a propaganda vehicle and parliamentary machine has outlived its use. India has to attain social, economic, and moral independence, in terms of its seven hundred thousand villages. The Congress must keep out of unhealthy competition with political parties and communal bodies. The AICC therefore resolves to disband the existing Congress organisation and to make it flower into a Lok Sevak Sangh with rules, and power to alter them as occasion may demand.
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A Brief Biography of Atanu Dey

September 12, 2005 – 1:15 pm

Atanu Dey is a Senior VP at Netcore Solutions, Mumbai. His primary focus in on the use of information and communications technology tools in secondary and post-secondary education. He has worked in product marketing at Hewlett Packard in California for several years. He received his PhD in economics from University of California at Berkeley. He holds masters degrees in computer science from IIT Kanpur and Rutgers University, and a mechanical engineering degree from Nagpur University. While a Reuters Fellow at Stanford University (2001-02), he coauthored a model for rural development called RISC with Vinod Khosla. In his spare time (about 90% of his total time) he listens to classical music, practices Vipassana meditation, reads physics, gives lectures on Buddhism, maintains a sporadic blog, and occassionally makes sense. He plans to become a philosopher when he grows up. He would also like all to know that he is a published poet.

Check out Atanu’s blog on development issues.

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The First Poster boy of the Net : Rajesh Jain

September 10, 2005 – 2:13 pm

If Sabeer Bhatia hit iconic status among Internet entrepreneurs in the US, Rajesh Jain achieved similar status back home when he sold his IndiaWorld portal to Satyam Infoway(now Sify) in 1999 for Rs 500 crore. That was one of the Asia’s largest Internet deals. This astounding deal, amid the Internet boom, sparked off the dotcom frenzy in India. Everyone wanted to be Rajesh Jain.

Rajesh Jain’s Biography::
A graduate from IIT-Mumbai, Jain completed his masters in electrical engineering (communications) from Columbia University. He worked in the US for two years before coming back to pursue his entrepreneurial ambitions.
Before fame and money embraced Jain he swallowed many failures. His foray into software development failed, forcing him to take a break in the US in 1994. Fascinated by the power of the Internet, he started IndiaWorld, a Web-based news and information service for NRIs, with his savings.
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