Monthly Archives: August 2011

Shivani Gopalkrishna

Mentor’s Name: Gopal Krishna Relation: Father After school I dabbled in a few courses, and felt frustrated that I was not sure what I wanted to study. When I changed my mind for the third time, my father suggested that … Continue reading

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MDS Shiva

Mentor’s Name: Shankar Narayan, Suresh Dharma, my mother As a young boy growing up in Chinnamugiyarchavadi, a tiny village in Pondicherry, my mother was my earliest mentor. Married at a young age of thirteen, (she had my brother when she … Continue reading

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Usha B.N.

Mentor’s Name: Koundinya Koorapati Relation: Colleague When Koundinya K joined my SCSI team at EMC in 2009, I thought it was my duty to ‘initiate’ and introduce him. Instead, this gentle teacher with more than a decade’s experience in the … Continue reading

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