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Tete a tete with KK

Tete a tete with KK

Feb 22, 2009

Krishna Kumar Kunnath grew up listening to Pink Floyd, Guns ‘N’ Roses, Deep Purple and Billy Joel. Spring Fest 2009 saw the DU Commerce graduate and a play-back genius, performing to a packed house, in the Tagore Open Air Theatre. The Scholars’ Avenue caught up with KK for a rendezvous, backstage. TSA: As a singer you had a modest...

Lead India – An Interview with RK Misra

Lead India – An Interview with RK Misra

Apr 15, 2008

R.K. Misra is a B.Tech graduate of IIT Kanpur. He has an M.S. from Tokyo University. He has been an entrepreneur for most of his professional life, and has founded and acquired three technology businesses. More recently, he was declared the winner of TOI’s ‘Lead India’ campaign. In an interview with The Scholars’ Avenue, R.K. Misra...

Guest Article by Sramana Mitra

Sramana Mitra has been an entrepreneur and a strategy consultant in Silicon Valley since 1994. Her fields of experience span from hard core technology disciplines like semiconductors to sophisticated consumer marketing industries including fashion and education. Her current focus, however, is primarily in the realms of Web 3.0 and Enterprise 3.0, and related...

Interview with Ranbir Gupta

Ranbir (Ron) Singh Gupta, B.Arch 1970 IIT-Kharagpur and a top-notch architect in the US with his own company based in New York has given his alma-mater “Ranbir and Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Design and Management“, first such school of its kind in the world. His donation of $1 million is the second-highest endowment received by the...

Blast off for the October Sky – An interview with Homer Hickam

Blast off for the October Sky – An interview with Homer Hickam

Mar 19, 2008

Profile: October 1957. The first artificial satellite, Sputnik -1, a Russian Scientific marvel sprang into orbit. With it, rocketed the aspirations of a small boy in a Mine Town of West Virginia. Defying destiny which was bound to shackle him to the mines of Appalachians, Homer Hickam went on to become one of the greatest engineers America has ever produced. We at The Scholars' Avenue owe Mr Homer Hickam a million thanks for interacting with us over e-mail despite his busy writing schedule. We present to you the Interview here.

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