Effective April 2012, Mr. Raj Nair will be serving Ford Motor Company as the new Vice President, Global Product Development. Before his new appointment, Raj Nair worked as the Vice President- Engineering of the Global Product Development where he was responsible for all engineering related to Ford and Lincoln cars, trucks, SUVs and crossover vehicles. He also lead the development and implementation of the Ford brand globally.

Nair holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering with an automotive specialty from Kettering University in Flint, Michigan. He was also named the recipient of the 2007 Kettering Alumni Achievement Award in Engineering.

INDIA CALLING- An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking by Anand Giridharadas
Published in the United States by Times Books, an imprint of Henry Holt and Company, in January, 2011. Order today from Amazon, Borders or Barnes & Noble. And available in India from HarperCollins and in Australia from Black Inc.

In India Calling, Anand Giridharadas brings to life the people and the dilemmas of India today, through the prism of his émigré family history and his childhood memories of India. He introduces us to entrepreneurs, radicals, industrialists, and religious seekers, but, most of all, to Indian families. He shows how parents and children, husbands and wives, cousins and siblings are reinventing relationships, bending the meaning of Indianness, and enduring the pangs of the old birthing the new.

Second Childhood - Book from Manish Patel
Open Invitation to the launch of Manish Patel's 'Second Childhood'

DATE: Sunday,December 11th, 2011
TIME: 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
LOCATION:
Troy Community Center
3179 Livernois Road, Suite 304, Troy, MI 48083

Interview with Manish Patel:

Brief introduction of Umesh Rashmi Rohatgi:
Umesh graduated from IIT Kharagpur in ’68. He recieved masters degree from University of Michigan in ’82 and Rashmi is MA in Sanskrit from Gwalior ’70. Umesh and Rashmi Rohatgi are better known as social workers and want to encourage any thing or anybody, that will make a difference in someone’s life. They have raised two sons, Yash and Gaurav, to be decent world citizens.

They have successfully completed two phases of life; Brhamacharya (Student) and Grihastha (House holders) while they were also engaged in various charity works in India and America. Now in the third stage of life, Vanprastha (Philanthropist), they have totally devoted themselves to make some deprived people more informed so they can improve their lives as they dream. During last 5 years they have traveled extensively throughout India, visited 320 villages and about hundred NGO’s.

Congratulations to the longtime Michigan resident Subir Chowdhury for being recognized as one of the top 50 "Most Influential Management Gurus in the World" 2011 by the Thinkers 50 Organization.

Subir Chowdhury is the Chairman and CEO of ASI Consulting Group and a globally respected quality expert and strategist. He advises CEOs and senior leaders of Fortune 100 companies as well as organizations in the public, private and not-for profit sectors all over the world, helping them make quality a part of their business culture.Tagged the “The Quality Prophet,” by Business Week, Chowdhury is the author of the international bestseller The Power of Six Sigma: An Inspiring Tale of How Six Sigma is Transforming the Way We Work (2001), (translated into more than 20 languages), and 12 other business titles.

VOTE TODAY!! Nov 8th Tuesday
Ramesh Verma, a Novi resident for over 32 years and an active community leader announces his candidacy for the Novi City Council. Ramesh Verma was born in Burma and was brought up in India. After his graduation in civil engineering, he joined Indian Army as a commissioned officer. He has worked with a diverse group of people and learned their languages, customs, and religions. He left India as a Captain in the Corps of Engineers when he came to USA in 1972.
I firmly believe in fiscal discipline, smaller government for better governance and freedom of expression. I pledge to work in the areas for enhancement to improve the quality of services to senior citizens, support public safety and further economic development. I humbly request your valued support and vote in my candidacy to the Novi City Council - Ramesh Verma
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The name Chitra Sridhar is not new for many local Detroit music lovers. Chitra has mesmerized her fans with a singing range and talent unprecedented in the Michigan Indian community. A classically trained musician since the age of 4, Chitra has enthralled her audience all across the United States.

With the Carnatic music background, Chitra currently performs live and Karaoke shows.A sought after singer, Chitra has traveled as far as Chicago, St Louis, Cleveland, Indiana, Florida,Iowa, Buffalo, Toronto, and many more places.She sings for a variety of occasions like birthdays , weddings , charity events like for ASHA , CRY and regional associations like Gujarati Samaj, Marathi Mandal and MAIFS ,Detroit Malayalee Association in Detroit.

Sunil Agrawal and other executives from Nova Consultants plan to attend the unveiling Monday of one of the state's largest solar power systems in Michigan at Monroe County Community College. The $3-million, 500-kilowatt system was designed and constructed by Nova as part of DTE Energy's utility-owned SolarCurrents program.

Agrawal, 55, said the project is just one of several major solar-power systems that the firm has completed over the past two years as the company has transformed itself from an environmental engineering company into an installer of solar power systems.

Dr. Niru Prasad is a physician for over 30 years. Dr. Niru Prasad’s efforts have touched the lives of many people and made a positive difference worldwide.Dr. Niru Prasad after receiving her medical degree in Bihar, India, completed her residency at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan. She is certified in Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Prasad is a fellow member of the American College of Emergency Physician and the American Academy of Pediatrics. She is a senior staff physician affiliated with West Bloomfield Center of Henry Ford Hospital, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Pontiac and West Bloomfield Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan.

Ananda Prasad, M.D., Ph.D., distinguished professor of Internal Medicine in the Department of Oncology at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and a member of the Division of Hematology/Oncology at Wayne State University School of Medicine, recently received the 2010 Mahidol Award in the Field of Public Health for his groundbreaking research. Dr. Prasad is a world renowned zinc expert.

The award is presented annually by the Prince Mahidol Award Foundation of Thailand. It recognizes researchers and physicians for outstanding contributions in the field of public health "for the sake of the well-being of the peoples." The honor includes a medal, a certificate and $50,000.

Richa Gangopadhyay recently won the Superhit Most Talented Debutante of the Year-2010 award in a gala event held in Hyderabad which was attended by the ‘Who’s Who’ in Telugu Film Industry! Richa portrays the classic success story of an NRI who won Miss India USA in 2007 as well as Miss Photogenic and Beautiful Eyes in the Miss India Worldwide in 2008, and came down to India to realize her acting dreams. Even though she is based in Mumbai, she is on the roll in Tollywood with a bag full of accomplishments others crave for.

Shikha Raman, a fifth grader at Power Upper Elementary School, 34740 Rhonswood Street, Farmington Hills was declared the winner of the 'I Can Make History' 2011 Poetry Competition. Sponsored by Kroger, CBS Radio and 98.7 AMP radio , 'I Can Make History' is a contest organized in the month of Feburary commemorating the Black History Month in Michigan.

In the recently declared results Shikha Raman was congratulated by the contest organizers for honoring and recognizing the efforts of the Black leaders with beautiful poetic words.Her poem was selected amongst the hundreds of entries accepted by Kroger. As a prize, Shikha recieved a Dell Inspiron 15R-2nd Gen - Intel Core i5 laptop and a certificate recognizing excellence in poetry.

Patna, May 10: Super 30 founder Anand Kumar would be conferred the Excellence in Education Award 2011 in a function at Doha, the capital of Qatar, on May 13.

The city-based mathematician, who has helped over 200 students from underprivileged families to clear the IIT-JEE, has been selected for this award jointly by the Doha chapter of Bihar Foundation and the Indian Association for Bihar and Jharkhand in Doha. These two organisations are organising a special programme to celebrate the 100th year of Bihar.

Shri Abhayanand IPS (1977 batch) currently serving as Additional Director General of Bihar Police joined hands with Centre for Social Responsibility & Leadership to provide free coaching to under previliged students of India for IIT-JEE and AIEEE. Money for the same comes from PSUs. This blog is a portal for coming together of those seeking help in preparing for IIT-JEE and for those willing to help the needy. Abhayanand, the co founder of 'Super 30' , one of the prestigious coaching institutes that grooms poor children for admission to the IITs, gets talking about his success story.

Abhayanand, the co- founder of the pioneering coaching institute, Super 30, that grooms poor children for admission to the prestigious IITs, is the new director- general of police ( DGP) in Bihar. The 1977- batch IPS officer who was holding the post of ADG ( training), took charge from Neelmani, who retired on Wednesday.