Mood IndicoDECEMBER 2005 | www.MoodIndico.com The Young Turk What is he upto? Making The Difference One genius kid and one confident woman at a time Interview with director, radio host Harish Saluja MOOD INDICO Mood Indico Publisher & Editor-in-Chief: Sunil Sharma HOW TO REACH US Editors & Contributors: Nishkam Agarwal, Naish . Our website is www.moodindico.com ONTENTS Vashisht, Neema Nene C VP, Sales & Advertising: Atul Gupta LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ADVERTISING Board of Advisors: Erin DeCaprio, Devasish Ray, . Our e-mail address is . For advertising rates and our editorial SOM SHARMA - DIGITALVISION Chidu Rajghatta, Shirish Nene, Kokila Agarwal, [email protected] calendar call 1-70-880-4854 or Vivek Hajela, Sanjay Bhandari COVER STORY Please do not send attachments send e-mail to [email protected] 8 Making the Difference . Our fax number is 1-646-607-7999 CUSTOMER SERVICE AND . 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Printed in the U.S.A. 9 Miss NRI Global 9 Mrs. NRI Global Pakistan born Mehru Khan won Software engineer Mikki Singhal the pageant and wants to change SOM SHARMA tries to do something different, like SOM SHARMA the image of Pakistani women winning Mrs. NRI crown INTERVIEW TOPIC A: 4 Harish Saluja Director and radio host Young Turks 10 Bubbling With Creativity talks about his movies, his Anand Chhatpar was named as one paintings, Saeed Jaffery and of five most innovative entrepreneurs Roshan Seth COURTSEY NEW RAY FILMS in the US and for good reasons, he is a fountain of youthful creativity. FRONT ROW COURTSEY BRAINREACTIONS LLC 5 Milestones, In the Numbers 11 Rhodes Scholar They Said It Rahul Satija of Duke is one of three South Asians named Cover: in the Rhodes Scholars list of 32 RENNU DHILLON: Som Sharma, 7 From the History Digitalvision Portguese in Ceylon; Partition of Bengal; HARISH SALUJA: New Ray Films Akbar’s Death BILL GATES: Microsoft BUSINESS ANAND CHAATPAR: 12 Essay 11 Investment Rush to India BrainReactions, LLC Is high school graduation only India is moving up the food-chain as Bill Gates, John related to what seniors do in their Chambers and Craig Barrett go to New Delhi to announce young lives? billion dollars expansion plans 2 MOOD INDICO, DECEMBER 2005 www.MoodIndico.com MOOD INDICO, DECEMBER 2005 www.MoodIndico.com FACE TIME a better place. When I first came here, there were no radio stations playing Indian music. FRONT ROW So I developed huge collection HARISH SALUJA just to share it with fellow MILESTONES Indians who had been here for Inside the Numbers regarious and charismatic Harish Saluja is a multi-faceted man who has blended 10-20 years and had not heard DIED. BRIJ LAL, 81, jour- DIED. GOPAL VINAYAK Sehgal or Lataji or Mukesh for art and science, East and West. A graduate of IIT Kharagpur, Harish found his nalist, radio and TV host, was GODSE, 86, brother of Na- a longtime. calling as a movie director, producer, painter and radio-host. Not only that he is born in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, thuram Godse, who shot Ma- 2 Times approximately the 80,466 Students entered area of Pakistan compared to U.S. from India in 2004/05, also a publisher of magazines. We recently spoke to him. You are also involved with India and moved to US in 1951 hatma Gandhi, the Father of that of California most from any nation TiE. What initiatives are you to work for Voice of America. the Nation of India in 1948. GYou are an engineer so how Later, he worked for ABC Ra- A Hindu Mahasabha leader working on? TiE’s main aim 4.5 Times approximately the 62,523 Students from come you became a produc- dio News and hosted “Bharat and author of “Gandhi Hatya is to promote entrepreneur- population of Pakistan to that China, the second leading er, director, radio-host and Vani”, a Aani Me”, Godse served a 16 ship. Although we welcome of California nation painter? I wanted to make FILMS COURTSEY NEW RAY radio and years jail sentence for his part everybody, we are particularly movies, write and paint since TV pro- in the assassination of Gandhi. happy when a person of Indus childhood. But in my genera- gram. In He remained unrepentant for origin comes to us. We are tion to get into IIT or medical 199, he the killing that shook the na- also working on a project million approximate Foreign students college was considered such a r e c e i v e d tion and called Gandhi a “very 25 565,039 called I-Port. We want it to worldwide population of entered U.S. in 2004/05 wonderful opportunity that Ellis Island cruel person for the Hindus”, be the first place people go to nobody would allow you to go Sikhs JAY MANDAL - ON ASSIGNMENT JAY Medal of in a 200 AP interview. if they want to do business in 191,321 U.S. students, to Bombay and make movies. Honor for India. 15 million approximate who went abroad in 2004/05 It took me a while to get to exception- AWARDED. Dr. SHASHI worldwide population of Jews decrease in foreign stu- this point. You are from Punjab known al humanitarian efforts and PHOHA, by IEEE-Computer 1% million approximate dents enrollment in U.S. than for agriculture and settled in outstanding contributions to Society with its 2004 Techni- 4.5 How did you prepare for worldwide population of Jains previous year Pittsburgh known for steel. America. cal Achievement Award in movie-making? I took a proj- Is there any connection? November 2005. The award ect implementation approach 2.6 million approximate 8.5% increase in number [Laughs] We lived in cities in REELECTED. UPENDRA recognizes as I would do for an engineer- worldwide population of of American students going Punjab and in Delhi, so you CHIVUKULA, 55, for the individu- ing project – do due diligence, Zoroastrians abroad during the same period more savvy and sophisticated. you guys are doing and have know, I have exposure to both third term to the New Jersey als with research, assemble team and I was trying to explain that some fun. It was absolutely city and rural life and then State Assembly. He beat GOP outstand- raise money. I prepared by I know people who know wonderful to work with him. in Nainital, which is in the challenger Salim Nathoo, an- ing and reading books, magazines and five languages [but] are not mountains. I spent five years other Indian American and SASHICOURTSEY PHOHA innovative attending seminars. Even after Many of your paintings are 2.4% World’s Land area 225 Members of Parliament savvy with technical things. It in Kharagpur doing engineer- dental surgeon, for the 17th work in that I could not get practical based upon ragas. Why? I supported by India in Sri Lanka doesn’t make them idiots. He ing and four in Dhanbad in district. First Asian Indian fields of experience so I bought my have been listening to ragas was not revolting in any way. coal mines. So the only con- elected to the New Jersey As- computer, 15% World’s population 435 Members in U.S. House way into an associate produc- for 40 years and have a strong We would have a discussion nection is that Pittsburgh is a sembly, Chivukula gradu- informa- supported by India of Representatives er’s job with a friend. emotional connection with and in the end he would say steel city with coal mines. ated from tion science and engineering fine we would do it your way. them. I actually visualize Chennai’s with in the past fifteen years. How did you get the idea for Source: Background notes US State Dept.; Encyclopedia Britannica 2005 Year abstract things. When I listen What is your next project? G u i n d y book; Institute of International Education; U.S. House of Respresentatives your first film, “The Jour- I How was it to work with to ragas, I actually see images, am working on a film festival Engineer- CROWNED. NATASHA ney”? I have had ideas since Saeed Jaffrey? He is unbe- colors, patterns and things.