Isha Sharvani (born 29 September 1984 in Gujarat, India) is an Indian Contemporary dancer and actress. She is known for her stylistic Indian contemporary and aerial dance performances. She has also starred in some Bollywood and other Indian films.

Isha was born on 29 September 1984 in Gujarat, India. She has lived in Ahmedabad, from where she moved to different places like,Delhi, Orissa, Vrindavan^[1] and Bangalore, before settling down in Trivandrum.

Isha's parents founded an arts school called Academy for Art Research, Training and Innovation (AARTI) in Trivandrum, Kerala^[2]where she lived for 13–14 years. At the age of thirteen, she began formal learning in dance from her mother Daksha Sheth at her dance school and learned Kalaripayattu, Kathak and Chhau dance as well as giving performances in twenty-two countries over last seven years.^[3]

According to an interview with India Daily, Isha stated she "lived a different life poles apart from the film industry. For 11 years I have been training eight to 10 hours a day in a very disciplined atmosphere where there is no distinction between boys and girls. I was not supposed to cry over a clipped nail. Beyond stage even my wardrobe has mostly unisexual dresses, jeans and T-shirts" She is a trained Malkam dancer a part of folk dance.

Ashish Nanda is an Indian educationalist who is Director of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, a position he assumed in September 2013. He was hired for the post by A. M. Naik, chairman of Larsen & Toubro and of the board of the institute.

Nanda graduated from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad before working for Tata Motors. He was then recruited toHarvard Business School's economics PhD program.

He is a coauthor with Tom DeLong of Professional Services: Cases & Text, published in 2003

Education

Nanda has studied at two of India's best known institutions. He joined the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1976 for a four-year degree course in Electrical Engineering, which he successfully completed in 1981. In the same academic year, he joined IIM, Ahmedabad, for a two-year post-graduate diploma in management.^[6]

Professional Life

Nanda taught at Harvard Business School for 13 years before moving to Harvard Law School to design and lead an executive business program for lawyers.

His appointment to Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad was delayed for six months as the overseas background check took more time than expected.^[4]

Personal Life

He is married to Shubha Nanda, a dentist and dental teacher. They have one son who is now attending Columbia medical school in New York, New York. Shubha played a key role in his taking up the assignment as the director of IIM, Ahmedabad, as initially Nanda was unsure of leaving his established career in the US and return to his alma mater.

Sapna Vyas Patel is a doctoral student and a Reebok Certified Fitness Professional. Using her experience and knowledge, so far she has helped over 5000 people through Facebook in reaching their fitness goal without charging a single penny.

Sharing her fitness secret she says that she followed a proper diet routine. According to her dieting is eating right and not starving. She ate everything she wanted to but in the right proportion and at the right time. She never did crash dieting or even excess exercising. Initially she did intense Cardio and then switched to Weight Training.

Nothing worth achieving comes easy. She points out that there are no short cuts to healthy weight loss. Fitness is a way of life and no magic pills are available. Fad diets may give you quick results but it will drain you of energy, put you at health risks and playing tricks with the body is not a wise choice.

“I plan my diet in such a way that I never feel hungry. I eat almost every two hours but in a small quantity. Our body craves certain type of food when it is deprived of it. For example, avoiding sugar completely would make the body crave for it. I keep check on my protein, fat and carbs sources,” says Sapna.

The physical change is visible but the real change happened inside says Sapna. Weight loss can never be seen in isolation one has to modify the lifestyle as well as the thought process. It taught her patience, discipline and dedication. Most importantly the entire process has made her feel more confident.

It’s no secret that many people start with a great plan to achieve their fitness goal. Unfortunately, very few ever accomplish what they set out to do. Sapna advises people to follow a diet and fitness routine which suits their lifestyle. The best plan in the world is the one you can stick to, says Sapna.

Born On: December 19, 1894
Born In: Ahmedabad, Gujarat 
Died On: January 20, 1980
Career: Industrialist
Nationality: Indian

Very few people are able to achieve a meticulous working system and win the appreciation of a very large number of people. Kasturbhai Lalbhai was one such prominent industrialist who was successful in attaining the honor of a nationalist businessman and a renowned magnate, a tribute that is often related with another business tycoon G.D. Birla. Right from stabilizing his father's yet-to-be established business to instituting a vast business empire, Kasturbhai worked throughout his life with immense hard work, dedication, honesty, and determination, thereby keeping his family business ongoing, ever since his ancestor Shantidas Zaveri began in the Mughal Era. Apart from setting up numerous companies in various industries, he was also associated with establishing new institutions to promote education in the country.

Bhadresh Shah – Net worth $390 million

Mr Bhadresh is the founder at AIA Engineering, a company experterise  in grinding components for machinery used in the power, mining and cement industries. It is world’s second largest in its niche after Belgium’s Magotteaux International

  

Pankaj Madhavlal Patel is the current Chairman and Managing Director of Cadila Healthcare. Forbes Magazine’s first annual list of the 40 richest Indians (2004) with an estimated net worth of $510 million.In August 2012, Patel purchased a Challenger-604 jet, which costs between $10 million (Rs50 crore) and $14 million (Rs80 crore)

Gautam Adani – Net worth US$ 3.9 billion

Many of us might be knowing this personality well, A person behind Adani Group. Born in Seth ni Pol (Ahmadabad). His  hometown known as Tharad (even mine) and today he is standing as an great identity of our Gujarat. He is said to be among the 100 most influential businessmen worldwide in shipping trade and developing shipping related infrastructure

Vrushika Mehta was born on 18 February 1994 into a Gujarati family. She originally hails from Ahmedabad but stays in Mumbai where she is pursuing her education from Tolani College of Commerce. Although contemporary is her strength but she has shown her versatility and talent in various dancing styles over the period of time, including Bollywood, contemporary and folk.

Kartikeya V Sarabhai (born November 27, 1947) is the son of the late Vikram Sarabhai, a renowned scientist and the father of India's space programme and Mrinalini Sarabhai. His sister, Mallika Sarabhai, is a noted danseuse.

He was educated in Cambridge, UK (Tripos in Natural Science) and went on to do post graduate work in development communication at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Sarabhai is the founder director of the Centre for Environment Education headquartered in Ahmedabad, with 40 offices across India. He is also the chairman of the Ambalal Sarabhai Enterprises, the pharmaceutical company which was set up by his grandfather Ambalal Sarabhai. He is closely involved in the activities of the Nehru Foundation for Development, of VIKSAT and Ahmedabad's Vikram Sarabhai Community Science Centre. Sarabhai is also a trustee of the Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust, and thePhysical Research Laboratory (PRL).

Sarabhai has served on many committees set up by the Ministry of Environment and Forests and Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Government of India, primarily focusing on the greening of India's formal education system, and initiatives for biodiversity education. He is a member of the Earth Charter International Council. He was also part of the delegations which represented India at the Earth Summit (1992) in Rio and the Earth Summit 2002 in Johannesburg. He was also instrumental in initiating the South and Southeast Asian Network for Environment Education (SASEANEE). He is currently vice chair of the Indian National Commission for the International Union Conservation of Nature (IUCN). He also led the first international conference on the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development in Ahmedabad in 2005, and he is a member of the UNESCO Reference Group for DESD and the International Steering Committee for the end of the Decade Conference.

Mr Kartikeya Sarabhai is the co-chair of the Global Citizenship Working Group of the Learning Metrics Task Force 2.0 convened by the Centre for Universal Education at Brookings Institution to examine how global citizenship education is measured and make recommendations for new ways of assessing learning. He is the chair-holder of the UNESCO Chair on Education for Sustainable Development and the Human Habitat. He is the editor of the Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, published by SAGE, and has written and spoken extensively on environment, education and sustainable development related subjects in national and international fora.

He received the Tree of Learning Award (1998) from the IUCN in appreciation of his contributions to the field of environmental education and communication. The Indian Institute of Human Rights has presented him with the World Human Rights Promotion Award (2005). In 2012 he was conferred the Padma Shri award for his work in Environmental Education by the President of India. • In 2013, he was given the Olive Green Crusader award by IAA (International Advertising Association) for his contribution in the field of environmental education and education for sustainable development.

The Science Aur Kainat Society of India and its National Award Committee honoured him with the Sir C.V. Raman Memorial Award in the field of science and technology popularization & innovation in May 2014.

More recently, Kartikeya Sarabhai has been in the news for restructuring the ailing Ambalal Sarabhai Enterprises.

Pisharoth Rama Pisharoty February 10, 1909 – September 24, 2002) was an Indian physicistand meteorologist, and is considered to be the father of remote sensing in India.

Early life and education

P. R. Pisharoty was born on February 10, 1909 in the town of Kollengode in the Indian state of Kerala.His parents were Sivaramakrishnan alias Gopala Vadhyar and Lakshmi Pisharassiar. He had two brothers: Balakrishnan and Rajagopal, and three half brothers: Vaidyanathan, Rose Vadhyar and Gopalakrishnan. He completed his early education in Kerala. Having done his Physics BA honours from St. Joseph's College, Trichinopoly, Madras state, he went on to do his MA (Physics) from Madras University. He then worked as a college lecturer in Physics at Loyola College at Chennai during 1932-1941. During the summer vacations he used to work under Prof. C. V. Raman at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. On the recommendation of Raman, Pisharoty joined the India Meteorological Department in 1942, where he carried out research on thunderstorms, western disturbances, movement of monsoon depressions, orographic rain, etc. He then joined the University of California for further studies where he worked under meteorologist Jacob Bjerknes. His published two reports titled Some aspects of geostrophic poleward sensible heat and The kinetic energy of the atmosphere. He obtained his MS (in Meteorology) and PhD degrees by 1954.

Work in Indian remote sensing programme

On returning to India, Pisharoty became the Director of Colaba and Alibag Magnetic Observatories in 1959 and Founder Director of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology,Pune in 1962. In 1967 he retired as Director of the Institute of Tropical Meteorology and joined the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad as a senior professor at the invitation of Vikram Sarabhai. At this point he was entrusted with the job of introducing remote sensing technology to India. He accepted the job. His pioneering experiment of detection of coconut wilt-root disease using Soviet aircraft and US equipment was considered to be the first success in remote sensing in India.

Keshavram Kashiram Shastri was born on 28 July 1905 at Mangarol in Junagadh district of Gujarat. He was the founding leader of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad. He was among the dignitaries who attended the first meeting of VHP in 1964 and since then continuously associated with the VHP work and was head of the Gujarat unit also

Biography

K. K. Shastri completed matriculation from Mumbai University in 1922. Later he studied poetry, Sanskrit language and grammar. He did his Diploma in Literature from Saurashtra University. He started his career in teaching as an assistant teacher of Sanskrit atCoronation High School in 1925 in Mangrol (Distt: Junagadh - Gujarat)& Left it because of Muslim Management. Later he joined Sanskrit Pathshala as a part-time teacher. He became assistant editor of Prajabandhu (Gujarati weekly) in Ahmedabad in 1936. He worked with Gujarat Vernacular Society and Gujarat Assembly in 1937. He joined L.D. Institute of Learning and Research in 1958. He also worked as an honorary lecturer of Gujarati at the B.J. Institute of Learning and Research. He was an associate professor of Sanskrit and Gujarati at the B.D. Women's College. He joined the Gujarat Research Society in 1961 as the honorary Regulator.He also was a "KULPATI" of Bharatiya Sanskar Dham.

Jasubhai Motibhai Patel  pronunciation (help·info) (26 November 1924, Ahmedabad, Gujarat – 12 December 1992, Ahmedabad) was an off-spinner who played Test cricket for India. His fame rests entirely on a single match against Australiawhere he took 14 wickets.

Haku Shah (Devanagari:हकु शाह) (born 1934) is a Gandhian, an eminent Indian painter belonging to the Baroda School, he is also a cultural anthropologist, an author of international repute on folk and tribal art and culture. His works are considered in the line of artists who brought themes of folk or tribal art to Indian art.

He has received several awards including the Padma Shri (1989), the Jawarharlal Nehru Fellowship and the Kala Ratna for his contribution to art.

Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi (born 26 August 1927) is an Indian architect,considered an important figure of South Asian architecture and noted for his contributions to the evolution of architectural discourse in India. He is known for his contributions to the architecture of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Early life

B. V. Doshi was born in Pune, India.^[3] He studied at the J. J. School of Architecture, Mumbai.

§Career

Academic Block of IIM-Bangalore

Library Block of IIM-Bangalore

Husain-Doshi Gufa, Ahmedabad

After having worked for four years between 1951-54 with Le Corbusier in Paris, B. V. Doshi returned to Ahmedabad to supervise Le Corbusier's projects. His studio, Vastu-Shilpa (environmental design), was established in 1955. Doshi worked closely with Louis Kahnand Anant Raje, when Kahn designed the campus of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. In 1958 he was a fellow at theGraham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. He then started the School of Architecture (S.A) in 1962.

Doshi is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and has been on the selection committee for the Pritzker Prize, the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. He is also a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Architects.

Apart from his international fame as an architect, Dr. Doshi is equally known as an educator and institution builder. He has been the first founder Director of the School of Architecture, Ahmedabad (1962–72), first founder Director of the School of Planning (1972–79), first founder Dean of the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (1972–81), founder member of the Visual Arts Centre, Ahmedabad and first founder Director of the Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad. Dr. Doshi has been instrumental in establishing the nationally and internationally known research institute Vastu-Shilpa Foundation for Studies and Research in Environmental Design. The institute has done pioneering work in low cost housing and city planning.

As an academician, Dr. Doshi has been visiting the USA and Europe since 1958 and has held important chairs in American Universities.

§Awards

In recognition of his distinguished contribution as a professional and as an academician, Dr. Doshi has received several international and national awards and honours.

Mallika Sarabhai (born 9 May 1954) is an activist and Indian classical dancer from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Daughter of a classical dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai and renowned space scientist Vikram Sarabhai, Mallika is an accomplished Kuchipudi andBharatanatyam dancer.

Early life

Mallika Sarabhai was born in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India to Vikram Sarabhai and Mrinalini Sarabhai. She completed her MBA from IIM Ahmedabad in 1974 and Doctorate in Organisational Behaviour from the Gujarat University in 1976.^[2] She is a noted choreographer and dancer and has also acted in a few Hindi and Gujarati films.^[3]

§Career

She started to learn dancing when she was young, and started her film career in parallel cinema, when she was 15. Mallika played the role of Draupadi in the Peter Brook's playThe Mahabharata. Mallika has won many accolades during her long career, the Golden Star Award being one of them, which she won for the Best Dance Soloist, Theatre De Champs Elysees, Paris 1977. As well as a dancer, Sarabhai is a social activist. She, along with her mother, manages the Darpana Academy of Performing Arts located at Ahmedabad.

Ela Ramesh Bhatt (born 7 September 1933) is an Indian cooperative organiser, activist and Gandhian, who founded the Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA) in 1972, and served as its general secretary from 1972 to 1996. A lawyer by training, Bhatt is a part of the international labour, cooperative, women, and micro-finance movements and has won several national and international awards, including the Ramon Magsaysay Award (1977), Right Livelihood Award (1984) and the Padma Bhushan(1986).

Early life and background

Ela Bhatt was born in Ahmedabad in India. Her father, Sumantrai Bhatt, was a successful lawyer, while her mother, Vanalila Vyas, was active in the women's movement and also remained secretary of All India Women's Conference, which in turn was founded byKamaladevi Chattopadhyay. Second of three daughters, her childhood was spent in the city of Surat, where she attended the Sarvajanik Girls High School from 1940 to 1948. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the M.T.B. College (Gujarat University) in Surat in 1952. Following graduation Ela entered the Sir L. A. Shah Law College in Ahmedabad. In 1954 she received her degree in law and a Gold Medal for her work on Hindu law.

§Career

Bhatt started her career teaching English for a short time at SNDT Women's University, better known as SNDT, in Mumbai. But in 1955 she joined the legal department of the Textile Labour Association (TLA) in Ahmedabad.