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Raghunathan
Raghunathan is a South Asian surname and patronymic. It is also variously spelled as Ragunathan. People with the name include: * K. Raghunathan (born 1957), journalist and writer from India * Madabusi Santanam Raghunathan FRS (born 1941), mathematician from India * Mahaveer Raghunathan (born 1998), racecar driver from India * Medha Raghunathan (born 1981), model and VJ from India * Sudha Ragunathan (born 1957; née Venkatraman), Carnatic musician from India * T. M. Chidambara Ragunathan (1923–2001), journalist and writer from India * Viswanathan Raghunathan (born 1954), businessman, writer, academic, from India See also * Appiah Balakrishnan, alias Ragunathan (died 1993), Sri Lankan assassin of Lalith Athulathmudali * Ragunathan Rajkumar (born 1963), American computer engineering academic from India * Raghunathan Srianand Raghunathan Srianand (born February 1, 1969) is an Indian Cosmology, cosmologist, Astrophysics, astrophysicist and a scientist at the Inter-Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahaveer Raghunathan
Mahaveer Raghunathan (born 17 November 1998) is an Indian racing driver. He is currently competing in the Italian GT Championship with Lazarus Corse and is also an AMR Junior Team driver. Career Junior series Raghunathan started his racing career in karting in 2012, where he remained active until 2013. He also made his formula racing debut in 2012 in four races of the JK Racing Asia Series for the Meco Racing team. In 2013, Raghunathan competed in the MRF Challenge Formula 1600, finishing sixth. He also took part in the final race weekend of the Formula Masters China series at the Shanghai International Circuit for the Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG team In 2014, Raghunathan moved to the new Italian F4 Championship, debuting on the second race weekend for the F&M team. He finished 12th in the championship Formula 3 At the beginning of 2015, Raghunathan took part in the final race weekend of the MRF Challenge Formula 2000 series at the Madras Motor Race Track. He then r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madabusi Santanam Raghunathan
Madabusi Santanam Raghunathan FRS is an Indian mathematician. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences (CEBS) in Mumbai, India. Previously, he was the Head of the National Centre for Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. Formerly Professor of eminence at TIFR in Homi Bhabha Chair. Raghunathan received his PhD in Mathematics from (TIFR), University of Mumbai; his advisor was M. S. Narasimhan. Raghunathan is a Fellow of the Royal Society, of the Third World Academy of Sciences, and of the American Mathematical Society and a recipient of the civilian honour of Padma Bhushan. He has also been on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize from 2016. Early life and education Madabusi Santanam Raghunathan was born on 11 August 1941 at Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, his maternal grandparents' place. The family lived in Chennai. His father Santanam continued the family's timber business and expanded i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viswanathan Raghunathan
Viswanathan Raghunathan (born 1954) is an academic, businessman, author, and columnist. He is currently director of the Schulich School of Business (York University, Toronto), India (Hyderabad Campus). Since 2013, for three consecutive years, Raghunathan has been featured in the list of top 50 thinkers in management across India and the Indian diaspora. Since 2005, he is also the CEO of GMR Varalakshmi Foundation. Earlier he was president, ING Vysya Bank (2001–2004) and managing director, GMR Industries Ltd (2007–2008), GMR Group. He has been an adjunct professor at the Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, since 1990, and Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada. He taught finance and accounting at IIM, Ahmedabad from 1982 to 2001, where he held various positions, including chair, of the postgraduate program. He is the author oIrrationally Rational(Penguin Viking, 2022)Games Indians Play(Revised Edition, Penguin, 2019)Return to Jammu(HarperCollins, 2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raghunathan Srianand
Raghunathan Srianand (born February 1, 1969) is an Indian Cosmology, cosmologist, Astrophysics, astrophysicist and a scientist at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA). Known for his research on Redshift-space distortions, redshift evolution on the cosmic microwave background radiation, Srianand is a member of the International Astronomical Union and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Focusing his work on observational and theoretical astrophysics, he is known to have assisted in widening the understanding of the ''bounds on the variation of fundamental constants using the absorption line spectra of quasars''. High-z Protogalaxy, proto-galaxies, time and space variation of fundamental constants, redshift evolution of the CMB temperature and formation and evolution of IGM have been some of the areas of his research. His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and Google Scholar, an online article repository of scientifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sudha Ragunathan
Sudha Ragunathan is an Indian Carnatic vocalist, singer and composer. She was conferred the Kalaimamani award by the Government of Tamil Nadu in 1994, Padma Shri (2004) and Padma Bhushan (2015) by the Government of India, and Sangeetha Kalanidhi by Madras Music Academy in 2013. Early life and education Sudha Ragunathan (née Sudha Venkatraman) was born in Chennai on 30 April 1957 and later shifted to Bangalore. She did her schooling in Good Shepherd Convent, Chennai. She studied at Ethiraj College, and obtained a postgraduate degree in economics. Musical career Training Sudha Ragunathan received her initial training in Carnatic music from her mother V. Choodamani. From the age of three, she began to learn bhajans, Hindu devotional songs. Her tutelage continued under B. V. Lakshman. In 1977, she received an Indian government scholarship to study music under a doyenne of Carnatic music, Dr. M.L Vasantha Kumari, whose student she remained for thirteen years. Trained und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medha Raghunathan
Medha Raghunath is a former Indian model, video jockey and socialite from Chennai. She began her career by hosting Tamil television shows before competing in beauty pageants and working as a model. Career Medha began her career in the entertainment industry as a video jockey through Sun TV's dance show ''Thillana Thillana'' and also hosted ''Ilayaganam'' on the Sri Lankan channel, Shakthi TV. Her appearance on the show led her to being cast in Mani Ratnam's romantic drama ''Alaipayuthey'' (2000), where she featured as a software engineer and friend of the character portrayed by Madhavan. In 2000, Medha participated and finished second in the Miss Chennai beauty pageant, finishing behind winner Pooja Nair. As a 20-year-old, Medha took part in the Miss India 2002 contest and ended up in top 13, and was notably featured as one of the lead interviewees in the British documentary ''Bitches & Beauty Queens: The Making of Miss India'' (2002). Medha then participated as India's re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raghunatha
Raghunatha is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Raghunatha Bhatta Goswami (1505–1579), disciple of the Vaishnava saint Chaitanya Mahaprabhu * Raghunatha dasa Goswami, one of the principal disciples of the Vaishnava saint, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu * Raghunatha Kilavan, the Setupati (commander) of Ramnad district in southern Tamil Nadu, India between 1673 and 1708 * Raghunatha Tirtha (died. 1502), Hindu philosopher and scholar; pontiff of Uttaradi Math of Dvaita Vedanta Dvaita Vedanta (); (originally known as Tattvavada; IAST: ''Tattvavāda''), is a sub-school in the Vedanta tradition of Hindu philosophy. The term Tattvavada literally means "arguments from a realist viewpoint". The Tattvavada (Dvaita) Vedant .... * Raghunatha Siromani (1477–1547), Indian philosopher and logician * Raghunatha Tondaiman (1799–1839), the ruler of the princely state of Pudukkottai from 1825 to 1829 * Rajakumar Vijaya Raghunatha Thondaiman, Indian politician and former Member o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assassination Of Lalith Athulathmudali
Lalith Athulathmudali, the former Cabinet Minister of Trade, National Security, Agriculture, Education and Deputy Minister of Defence of Sri Lanka was killed at 8:10 p.m. Sri Lanka Time (2.10 p.m. UTC) on 23 April 1993 in Kirulapana. Athulathmudali was fatally shot while addressing a gathering, approximately 4 weeks ahead of the May 1993 Provincial Council elections for the Western Province. The investigation by Sri Lanka Police and Scotland Yard separately concluded that the assassination was carried out by a Tamil youth named Appiah Balakrishnan ''alias'' Ragunathan, who was affiliated to the LTTE. However these findings were widely disputed by people due to the political context of that time. In 1995, President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga appointed a presidential commission to probe Athulathmudali's assassination, which had been an election promise of her 1994 presidential election campaign. The final commission report, submitted on October 7, 1997, pointed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ragunathan Rajkumar
Ragunathan "Raj" Rajkumar (born 1963) is the George Westinghouse Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also affiliated with the Robotics Institute and the Heinz School of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He also serves as the director of the Metro21 Smart Cities Institute and as the director of the Mobility21 USDOT National University Transportation Center at Carnegie Mellon University. He also leads the General Motors-CMU Connected and Autonomous Driving Collaborative Research Laboratory (CAD-CRL), and the Real-Time and Multimedia Systems Lab (RTML) there. Rajkumar is considered to be a pioneer of the domain of connected and autonomous vehicles. He led the Systems Engineering group within CMU's Tartan Racing team, which won the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. He was also a member of the team's 3-member executive committee which oversaw and facilitated the successful parti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |