Spotlight  
This section highlights the achievements of Daivajna people around the world which makes us all feel proud of being a Daivajna!
 
 
Dr. Shripad Revankar - Professor of Nuclear Engineering, Purdue Universisty
 

Dr. Revankar is a Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Director of Multiphase and Fuel Cell Research Laboratory in the School of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He received his BS (1975), MS (1977) and Ph.D. (1983) in Physics from Karnatak University, India and M.Eng. (1982) in Nuclear Engineering from McMaster University, Canada. He has worked as a post doctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and at the Nuclear Engineering Department of University of California, Berkeley from 1984 to 1987.

His current research interests are in multiphase flow and heat transfer, microgravity multiphase flow in packed beds, fuel cell design, simulation and power systems, thermochemical water splitting hydrogen production, reactor thermalhydraulics and safety. He has published over 200 peer reviewed papers in archival journals and conference proceedings. He has received undergraduate teaching award in 2004 and research awards in 2004 and 2005 from Purdue University.

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Mrs. Neeta Revankar - Chief Financial Officer
 

Neeta heads the Finance, Legal and Secretarial department at Sasken. She has been heading the Finance function at Sasken since April 1995. Her mandate includes driving the organization to match world standards in accounting processes and disclosures.

A Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary by qualification, she worked with Microland before joining Sasken.

She also participated in a Leadership Development Program at Harvard University. She has been instrumental in bringing processes and discipline into Financial Disclosures and it is because of her that Sasken is one of the few companies whose accounts are reported in compliance with US GAAP for the last 5 years. Indeed, the highly successful IPO, a watershed moment in Sasken's history, has been the result of Neeta and her team's focused and tireless efforts in this regard.

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Mr. Mohan Vernekar
 

With immense pleasure, I would like to Introduce Mr. Mohan Vernekar to our community people. Mr. Vernekar is a multi talented person with remarkable achievements in many creativity based fields. He has been considered as a prominent writer in kannada literature, more than 35 published books are at his credit. Theses books are well appreciated by the people as well as critics. Among them 4 novels, 4 Short stories collections and more than 10 books are pertaining to children literature and remaining are based on Personality development and psychology. His efforts in psychology field is also delightful and some of them are well received by the readers. The book - “Aatankankadinda Horabanni” is about Anxiety problems and their treatment which has been considered as a wide informative book in kannada. Among the novels one titled-“Swarna Mandara” is based on a daivajna family background and which is under reprint. Articles about his talent and achievements are appeared in leading periodicals like Times of India, Deccan Herald, Taranga, Sudha, Karmaveera, Daivajna Sourabha etc.

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Pandit Prabhakar Janardan Karekar
Pt. PRABHAKAR KAREKAR is a very familiar figure on the concert scenes of CLASSICAL MUSIC throughout India.

Born in Goa, PRABHAKAR KAREKAR left his native place at the tender age of fourteen in quest of music. Initiated into the fundamentals of classical music by ‘Late Pandit SURESH HALDANKAR’, he was later awarded National Scholarship by Government of India. Then followed his stint of discipleship under the very able guidance of the maestro ‘late Pandit JITENDRA ABHISHEKI’. He also received extensive training from the famous exponent of the Gwalior and Agra gharanas ‘Late Pandit C.R. Vyas’. With his eclectic approach ‘Pt. KAREKAR’ has imbibed the essence of the various schools of music, formed a style all his own and left its indelible imprints on the minds of his listeners.
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Anjali Ved Pathak
Anjali Ved Pathak Bhagwat (maiden name Anjali Ved Pathak) is a rifle shooter from India. In 2002 Commonwealth Games at Manchester, she won four golds in the individual and pairs events of Air rifle and Smallbore Rifle (Three positions). She was awarded the Arjuna award in 2000 and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna jointly with Beenamol for 2002–2003.
Awards
2003: Rajeev Gandhi Khel Ratna Award
2000: Arjuna Award
Chhatrapati Award
Maharashtra Gaurav
Maharashtra Pratishtha
 
     
 
Pandit Suresh Haldankar
Maharashtra Gandharva : Pandit Suresh Haldankar : Born in goa, Suresh haldankar learnt classical music from Pt. Jagannathbuwa Purohit alis Gunidas and later from Ganpatrao Dewaskar. He was a hero of Marathi Sangeet Natak even acted with Bal Gandharva as Hero. He had a very good base of classical music. His memorable act was in Honaji Bala Natak and after listening to his natya sangeet "SHRI RANGA KAMALA KANTA" Acharya Atre conferred upon him the title of Maharashtra Gandharva. He used to run classes of Indian Classical Music at Dadar. He died just an year ago.His other famous songs are "Vithu maza lekur wala", "govinda re gopala"
 
     
 
Pandit Babanrao Haldankar
Pandit Babanrao Haldankar is a stalwart of both Agra and Jaipur-Atrauli gharanas, having being trained by Ustad Khadim Hussein and Anwar Hussein (Agra Gharana) and Smt Mogubai Kurdikar (Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana). Pt. Haldankar is today well known as a guru, composer, scholar-thinker and performer. He has composed more than 200 Raga texts in vilambit (slow composition), drut (fast composition) and Taranas. He has published several books in Hindi, Marathi and English. These are valuable treatises covering the expanse of Hindustani Classical Music and unique explanations of the theory and performance of Ragas. He has several CD's and cassettes to his credit.
 
     

 

 
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