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Baisiwala among “100 Most Two Bengali Atlantans

Influential Georgians” shine in pageants

Ambrish Baisiwala, Chairman and
CEO, Portman Holdings (for Commercial
Real Estate) is on Georgia Trend’s 22nd an-
nual listing of the 100 Most Influential
Georgians, individuals who represent
the best qualities of leadership, power,
character, and influence the state has to
offer. Last year, Baisiwala oversaw the
development of Coda in Georgia Tech’s
Tech Square. The $375-million mixed-use center with
special elevators and murals in a meandering space
of computing, office, retail, and food areas facilitates
collaborations between researchers and industry. Next,
Baisiwala will be working on a boutique hotel that is Anusmita Sur, 1st runner-up Suporna (Trisha) Choudhuri,
planned for the Atlanta BeltLine. for Mrs. Bharat USA 2019. Miss India GA 2019.

After winning the Mrs Bharat GA 2019 title and
Dawood appointed to Mrs Congeniality in September at Mountain View High
School, Stone Mountain (metro Atlanta), Anusmita
Georgia’s Conviction Bardhan Sur became the first runner-up at the
Mrs. Bharat USA 2019 pageant in New Jersey. She is
Integrity Unit an assistant director of a school, and is involved in
dancing, acting, working on a short film, and choreo-
Across the world, thousands of graphing, besides being a mom with two kids.
people have spent time in prison for Suporna (Trisha) Choudhuri (23) won Miss India
crimes they did not commit. On January 8, 2020, the GA 2019 in IACA’s state-level pageant and, over the
Fulton County District Attorney’s Office and District course of a night marked by sisterhood and soli-
Attorney Paul L. Howard, Jr. officially announced the darity, received four other titles (Best Personality,
commencement of a Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU), Most Talented, Miss Photogenic, and Best Smile). Her
the first in the Southeastern United States in a DA’s goals include becoming a neurologist, working in con-
Office. This new unit will re-examine questionable junction with the United Nations using her Bachelor’s
convictions and help guard against future conviction degree in International Relations, and improving
error. Nazeera Dawood is one of the five appointed literacy for disenfranchised women and children in
members on the review board. As Martin Luther King, developing nations (particularly in South Asia). She
Jr. said, “Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, was unable to attend the Miss India USA nationals due
especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at to a scheduling conflict. The pageants inspire women
stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to and men to compete to “Wear a crown in the heart
the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the and on the head, but not in the head.”
other way.”

Razdan honored with King Center’s “Dream Forward” award

On January 14, 2020, at the opening event for the 2020 King Holiday Observance at the
King Center in Atlanta, the Dream Forward Community Service Awards were presented in the
following categories: Faith-Based Leadership, Environmental Responsibility, Elected Officials,
Media, International Affairs, and Social Justice. Subash Razdan, Chairman of The Gandhi
Foundation USA, was selected to receive the award for International Affairs. Razdan is an
IIT–Delhi engineering graduate with an MBA from Georgia State University. A recipient of
numerous awards, he dedicated this award to the Gandhi Foundation, King Center, National
Park Service, Indian Embassy/Consulate, and the diverse community team and partnership.

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