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NORTH AMERICAN SPECIAL:
VARIETY
India
All About India
Want to know about
India? Click on gautamindia.com,
recommends the MD of Jamshedpur-based Fusion Engg Products, Gautam
Mukherjee. Launching the website recently in Delhi, Mukherjee, who is
also a visiting faculty to prestigious academic institutions like XLRI,
described his site as "a vibrant, monthly changing" one covering
India under 12 subject heads. But if you want to know more about India,
Mukherjee recommends his five-day residential programmes to be held in
cities across the globe-at a "modest" $3,001. And no, he demurs,
there is no vanity in the naming of the dotcom-Gautam stands for the Buddha
and enlightenment!
— Nasima H. Khan
Florida
Better Than A Cure
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| PROMOTING REVENTION: Sekharam |
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A Largo-based pharmaceutical
firm called WGo2 Pharmacy Inc, has come out with Thraxide, a nutritional
supplement to protect against bacterial toxins such as anthrax. Go2's
president, Kotha Sekharam, developed Thraxide, which costs $39.99 for
a month's supply. It helps boost the body's immune system using herbs
and vitamins, says Sekharam. And best of all, it doesn't need approval
from the federal Government. "We combined the best of both worlds:
east and West," says Sekharam. "We are in the business of creating
and manufacturing health products using cutting-edge knowledge."
The anthrax scare is incidental.
—Nitish S. Rele
New York
Hear The Throb
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TABLA OR NOT: Sugandh is a complete performer
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When eight-year
old Tina Sugandh discovered that her father was exhausted and could not
continue playing the dholak at a concert near New York, she offered to
fill in for him. "I played the dholak while my father sang Rang barse,"
she recalls of the performance that won her a standing ovation. That was
Tina Sugandh's first extempore show many years ago. Now a medical student,
Tina plays not only the tabla but also drums and guitar, and is shaping
up as a singer, too. A few weeks ago she signed with the former manager
of Mariah Carey and Jessica Simpson for a solo career as a pop artist.
And adding to her credentials, Tina won the first spot in the Song Writers
Association of Washington DC for the first song she ever wrote, Seema.
"The possibilities are endless," says Tina, who thanks her family
for encouraging her. Her mother plays the harmonium and her sister is
also a singer and percussionist. "Folks started comparing us with
the family in the movie, The Sound of Music, and began referring to us
as 'The Sugandh Family'," she says. "We have now performed in
over 500 concerts in the US and overseas."
—Mabel Pais
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