Famous People with Name Joshi

Joshi Helgesson            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Joshi Helgesson: is a Swedish figure skater. She is coached by her mother. Her older sister Viktoria is also a competitive skater.

Aravind Krishana Joshi            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Aravind Krishana Joshi: the Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science in the computer science department of the University of Pennsylvania. Joshi defined the tree-adjoining grammar formalism which is often used in computational linguistics and natural language processing.Joshi studied at Pune University and the Indian Institute of Science, where he was awarded a BE in electrical engineering and a DIISc in communication engineering respectively. Joshi's graduate work was done in the electrical engineering department at the University of Pennsylvania, and he was awarded his PhD in 1960. He became a professor at Penn and is the co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science.

Suresh Joshi            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Suresh Joshi: an Indian novelist, short-story writer, critic, poet, translator, writer and academic in the Gujarati language.A strong opponent of romantic tendencies in literature, Joshi influenced many up-and-coming writers in the 1960s and 1970s. His personal essays

Nirmala Joshi            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Nirmala Joshi: succeeded Mother Teresa as Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity in March 1997.She was educated by Christian missionaries in Patna (capital of Bihar state) but remained a Hindu until she was 24 and learned of Mother Teresa's work and converted to Roman Catholicism.Sister Nirmala has a master's degree in political science from an Indian university and additional training as a lawyer. She was one of the first nuns to head a foreign mission when she went to Panama.She later headed missions in Europe and in Washington D.C. in the United States, before being chosen to succeed Mother Teresa. She was based in Calcutta as head of the order's Contemplative Wing, in which nuns devote their lives to meditation. Sister Nirmala was awarded with Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India on the Republic Day January 26, 2009. [3] She retired on March 25, 2009 and was replaced by German-born Sister Mary Prema.

Hemant Joshi            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Hemant Joshi: a Professor of Mass Communication and Journalism. He has taught Communication, Radio, TV and Hindi journalism for two decades at Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi (1989- ) and Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (2006-2008).He knows Hindi, English, French, Italian and Russian in order of competence. He has worked as Interpreter in various International Conferences and translates from French and Hindi and English and vice versa.

Manohar Shyam Joshi            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Manohar Shyam Joshi: was a Hindi writer, journalist and scriptwriter, most well known as the writer of Indian television's first soap opera [1], Hum Log (1982) and its early hits Buniyaad (1987), Kakaji Kahin, a political satire [2] and Kyap, novel which won him the Sahitya Akademi Award.He is often called "the Father of Indian Soap Operas" being the writer of India's first Television soap opera, Hum Log. Made in 1982, when television was still a luxury item for majority of Indians, the serial dealt with the everyday struggles of the middle-class India,, making it an instant hit, especial because every Indian could identify with it [4][5]. His another popular creation was Buniyaad (1987-1988), directed by Ramesh Sippy, a serial based around the life a family displaced by the Partition of India in 1947; both went on to deeply influence an entire generation of Indians as well as the Indian television industry [6].