Ashutosh believes that once it gets off the runway, Boston is the best place for a start-up.

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Ashutosh Varshney offers to explain why some places in India are peaceful, others nearby prone to ethnic violence.

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One young devotee, Ashutosh Pandey, a pharmacy student, said the holy dip was a form of prayer for him.

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So in July 2009, Ashutosh opened up Actifio in the space abandoned by a failed Greylock portfolio company in Waltham.

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The director Ashutosh Gowariker crosses a lavish romantic epic with a muscular adventure tale and comes up with an outrageously buoyant hybrid.

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Ashutosh sees Boston enjoying an advantage over Silicon Valley when it comes to building start-ups that sell technology to business and government.

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Ashutosh saw clearly that several recent trends could make it possible for companies to obtain the perceived benefits of all those copies at a much lower cost.

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Ashutosh Varshney, a professor at the University of Michigan, points out in a new book that levels of communal violence vary widely among Indian states (see chart).

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And Ashutosh believes that this gives Actifio a competitive advantage.

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Earlier this year the police shot dead a number of men said to be plotting the murder of film star Amir Khan and director Ashutosh Gowarikar, the team behind the Oscar-nominated "Lagaan".

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