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...Rakesh Dubey did what many young Indians have done to get a future: he went abroad. In this case, it was to the U.S. for a master's degree in genetics. Then Dubey made a major mistake. He went home to find a job. "I would have taken anything, anywhere in India," he says--but 80 job applications, many to multinational seed companies needing geneticists, landed him nowhere. Many firms shunned him precisely because he had gone abroad and returned to India. "They were suspicious," Dubey says. "They wondered, 'Unless there was something wrong with the guy, why would...
...Rakesh Dubey did what many young Indians have done to get a future: he went abroad. In this case, it was to the U.S. for a master's degree in genetics. Then Dubey made a major mistake. He went home to find a job. "I would have taken anything, anywhere in India," he says--but 80 job applications, many to multinational seed companies needing geneticists, landed him nowhere. Many firms shunned him precisely because he had gone abroad and returned to India. "They were suspicious," Dubey says. "They wondered, 'Unless there was something wrong with the guy, why would...
Indians are running FORTUNE 500 companies (Rono Dutta is president of United Airlines, and Rakesh Gangwal is president and CEO of U.S. Airways) or, as consultants and securities analysts, telling others how to do so. (Calcutta-born Rajat Gupta, managing director of consulting giant McKinsey & Co., does both.) But above all, they are bringing their own entrepreneurial stamp to America's high-tech frontiers. Venture-capital fund Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley's biggest VC firms, says 40% of its portfolio consists of companies founded or managed by people of Indian origin. Indians have...
Also named as fellows were Ragip Duran from Turkey; Aytul Gurtas, also from Turkey; Andreas Harsono from Indonesia; Tatsuya Inose from Japan; Rakesh Kalshian from India; and Lee Kwangchool from South Korea
During the mission, Salyut linked twice with Soyuz "ferries" that carried two visiting crews up and then back down again. The visitors chalked up a few firsts of their own. One craft, launched in April, carried the first Indian space traveler, Rakesh Sharma, who performed yoga exercises on board. A July ship brought Svetlana Savitskaya, who had been aloft in 1982 and this time became the first woman to walk in space: she spent three hours outside her Soyuz capsule testing a welding device. Two of the Salyut 7 crew did a five-hour space walk to replace a faulty...