September 2nd 2007,

Oriya Music Promotion under supervision and guidance of AP Arts International LLC, NJ USA

Devotional songs have always been an important part of the heritage of oDiA music. Whether it is the bylanes of villages or towns, temples or in houses, people communicate with the Supreme Being through these Bhakti rasa songs.

The Lord is worshipped at the commencement of every venture a devoted Hindu undertakes, whether it is a household duty, a religious worship, an academic pursuit, or a business adventure.

At such a juncture, AP Arts International LLC, true to its goal of preserving the dignity of odia music comes forth with its new gift for you, ARADHANA. We have for you eight melodious bhajans composed by a distinguished personality of the world of odia music, Shri Basudeb Rath. The right balance between the lyrics and melody has made this collection a must-have for all music lovers. Harmonizing all subtleties and nuances of the Bhakti rasa, the songs are sprinkled with spiritual insight and inspiring. Whether it is an imploring “Chaka Akhi Tume Eka Mora Sakhi”, or “Niti Kaha Pain Karuacha Sain”, tugging at the heartstrings, the songs speak about fundamental spiritual truths in simple terms.

These songs are recorded in high quality Multi-track digital technology with voices lent by outstanding Oriya singers of present time and yester years both , Adyasha Das, Anusuya Nath, Swagatika Rath, Geeta Patnaik and child artists Bidisha Das and Monalisha Mohapatra . It has been a sincere attempt to bring together singers of yester-years and recent times

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 Microsoft felicitates 33 Indians with Most Valuable Professional Awards

Microsoft Corporation felicitated 33 Indians with its Global Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award. The MVP Award was established by Microsoft almost a decade ago to recognise individuals for their outstanding contributions in a wide range of community activities. From newsgroup to top user group, websites and message boards worldwide, MVP status is awarded to the most active online community “gurus” for their technical expertise, voluntary willingness to share their experience and commitment to helping others realise their potential within Microsoft technical communities.

This year, the MVP Programme has doubled in size, with nearly 1,300 MVPs from more than 55 countries representing more than 70 Microsoft technologies. The growth of the programme, according to Lori Moore, corporate vice president of product support services and executive sponsor of the MVP Programme-Microsoft, is a testament to Microsoft’s worldwide customer connection. “Although the programme has always been globally focused, the tremendous increase in efforts and support for technical communities outside of the US, especially in countries like India, Japan, China, Germany, France and Latin America reflects the increasing needs of some of our best customers,” she says.

Today, online technical communities devoted to one or more Microsoft products are used by millions of customers worldwide. Each year, Microsoft looks to these communities—message boards, websites, newsgroups, and other technical peer to peer communities—for the most outstanding, active participants providing credible and noteworthy contributions to a technical community, including their valuable inputs on how Microsoft’s products could be improved. Much of this feedback comes during the annual summit Microsoft holds each year on its Redmond campus for the MVPs and top Microsoft executives, slated for early next year.

By far, Microsoft’s largest online community is the Microsoft public newsgroups with over 11 percent growth in membership and nearly 1.5 million active community members annually participating at Microsoft.com or news://ms-news.microsoft.com. There are thousands of freely available newsgroups covering a wide variety of Microsoft products and technologies, including more than 250 devoted to developer topics.

“MVPs make a significant contribution to our customer and overall community satisfaction, and we sincerely appreciate their efforts,” said Dilip Mistry, director-.NET and developer evangelism, Microsoft Corporation India.

Following are a few of the Indian Microsoft MVPs for 2003:

http://www.expressitpeople.com/20021125/careers3.shtml

Mumbai:

Akila Manian, Synergetics
Bipin Joshi, Mastek
Kunal Cheda, Syntel India
Manish Mehta, Syntel India
Mark D’Souza, Sagacious Infotech
Narayana Rao Surapaneni, Patni Computer Systems
Nauzad Kapadia, Quartz Systems
Saurabh Nandu, YesSoftware
Shyam Pillai
Sushila Bowalekar, PCS
New Delhi:

Suresh Behera, Cyberica Net Technologies

http://www.itpeopleindia.com/20021125/careers3.shtml

 Microsoft terms 33 Indians as Most Valuable Professionalsnews
07 November 2002
Mumbai: Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd today felicitated 33 Indians with its Global Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award. The MVP Award was established by Microsoft almost a decade ago to recognise individuals for their outstanding contributions in a wide range of community activities.

From newsgroup to top-user group, websites and message boards worldwide, MVP status is awarded to the most active online community ‘gurus’ for their technical expertise, voluntary willingness to share their experience and commitment to helping others realise their potential within Microsoft technical communities.

This year, the MVP Programme has doubled in size, with nearly 1,300 MVPs from more than 55 countries representing more than 70 Microsoft technologies. The growth of the programme according to Lori Moore, corporate vice president of product support services and executive sponsor of the MVP Programme, Microsoft Corp, is a testament to Microsoft’s worldwide customer connection.

“Although the programme has always been globally focused, the tremendous increase in efforts and support for technical communities outside of the US, especially in countries like India, Japan, China, Germany, France and Latin America, reflects the increasing needs of some of our best customers,” she says.

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33 Indians among Microsoft's MVPs
Thursday, Nov 07, 2002
NEW DELHI NOV. 6. Microsoft India today felicitated 33 Indians with its global Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award established almost a decade ago to recognise individuals for their contributions in within Microsoft technical communities. This year the programme has doubled in size and reached out to people outside the U.S. especially in countries such as India, Japan, China, Germany, France and Latin America.

From Chennai, the Indian Microsoft MVPs for 2003 are: Aravind Corera (independent software developer), Anand M. and Arun Prakash G. (both Polaris Software Lab), M. Rajesh (ICICI Infotech Services), Rajender Mahato (iNautix Technologies), Sandra Gopikrishna (Infosys Technologies) and Vinod Kumar (Emerald Software).

Hyderabad's professionals are: Gurneet Singh (Infosys) and Pratyusa Manadhata (E. Shaw India Software) while from Bangalore the four MVPs are: Benny Mathew (Thomson Financial), Kashinath (Texas Networks), Shivani Maheshwari (Satyam Computer) and Shivashanmugam M. (Trigent Software). The Mumbai MVPs are: Akila Manian (Synergetics), Bipin Joshi (Mastek), Kunal Cheda and Manish Mehta (both Syntel), Mark D'Souza, (Sagacious Infotech), Narayana Rao Surapaneni and Sushila Bowalekar (both Patni Computer), Nauzad Kapadia (Quartz Systems), Saurabh Nandu (YesSoftware), Shyam Pillai and Sudhakar Sadasivuni (NetDecisions). The New Delhi MVPs are: Suresh Behera (Cyberica Net) and Ajay Varghese (Jarvis Infotech). Anand Narayanaswamy (Freelance) is the MVP from Trivandrum while D. V. Ravikanth (Essemm Information) and Geetesh Bajaj have been nominated from Vizag and Secunderabad, respectively.

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http://www.hinduonnet.com/2002/11/07/stories/2002110703071800.htm