ALL ABOUT THE COMMUNITY NEWSMAKERS
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August 2012 -
Dhruti Contractor of Stone Mountain, Georgia, has been named one of UGA’s top “40 under forty” alumni for 2012. She has been active in politics and public health, and is now a surgeon in the U.S. Army.
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July 2012 -
Three Indian-Americans, Ani Agnihotri, Ritesh (Rick) Desai, and Shyam Reddy, have been included on Georgia Asian Times' list of 25 Most Influential Asian Americans in Georgia.
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July 2012 -
Arvind Krishnaswami has received the Metro Atlanta Chamber's Business Person of the Year Award in the Emerging Entrepreneur Category. His company, Medlytix, helps hospitals and patients with billing.
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July 2012 -
Jag Sheth of Emory's Goizueta Business School is again among the top 10 "Global Indian Thought Leaders," as determined by The Economic Times in partnership with IMRB International.
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July 2012 -
Narender G. Reddy has been reappointed by Governor Nathan Deal to the Board of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA) for a five-year term ending in June 2017.
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July 2012 -
Samantha Varghese, a Georgia eighth-grader, is among the 100 semifinalists in Rand McNally’s America the Beautiful Essay Contest for grades 7-12. Her most beautiful and inspiring place in America is a beach.
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June 2012 -
Harini Indrakrishnan, a 15-year-old disciple of Subathra Sudarshan, won second place in her age group at the Bharathanatyam Dance Competition at the Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival, Cleveland, Ohio, April 2012.
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June 2012 -
Anoushka Misra, age 9, is the Georgia state winner in the 2012 Doodle4Google competition. She was invited to go to New York City for the finals, as one of the top 50 artists of the over 114,000 entries in the country.
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June 2012 -
Surya Carpets, Suniva, and St. Joseph’s Translational Research Institute have been honored as winners or finalists for international business in the Global Impact Awards by the Metro Atlanta Chamber.
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May 2012 -
Sahr Singh at four years old identified countries of the world on the Letterman Show. Eight years later, she won National Geographic state level geography bee in Georgia, answering questions on politics, culture, and environment.
