Arvind Vegda is a Gujarati folk singer from Gujarat, India.
He is born on 5 October 1974 in Ahmedabad. He completed his school education from Vidhyanagar High School. He joined a diploma in drama but dropped to pursue commerce. He graduated from Navgujarat College. He started his career as a marketing agent of air conditioned firm. After working for twelve years in marketing, he was appointed the president of Indian Society of Heating and Refrigerating Air-Conditioning Engineers.
Arvind Vegda has no formal training in music. He started learning the harmonium under Narendra Rao and later formed an orchestra in 2002. They started performing at Navratri venues. In 2006, following sudden death of Maniraj Barot, he was invited to perform at Navratri Garba in Ahmedabad where he first time performed his track Bhai Bhai.
His popularity emerged with his most popular tracks Bhai Bhai which got 2 lakh hits of YouTube. His music albums including Bhala Mori Rama (2011) are sold over half million copies. He was also roped in by the Bharatiya Janata Party for its 2012 Gujarat election campaign. In 2015, he participated as a contestant in reality show, Bigg Boss 9.
Arvind, a common male name of Indian origin, means "lotus" in the Sanskrit language. Its variants include Aravinda, Aravind, Arvin, Aravindan, Arahvinth, Aravindh (in South India), and Aurobindo (in Bengali). It is used by the followers of many religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Christianity, Sikhism, and Islam.
Arvind means lotus in the Sanskrit language. In particular, the word may refer to the white lotus, on which the Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity - Lakshmi - sits. It could also refer to the Sanskrit term Aravindakshah (meaning the "lotus eyed one"), the 347th name used to describe the Hindu god Vishnu in the Vishnu Sahasranama.
Arvind is also a name of the Hindu god Shiva, who is depicted as bearing a crescent moon on his head. (Araav means top of something e.g. The Aravalli Range literally meaning line of peaks, a range of mountains. + Indu means moon.)
Aravinth is also believed to be the name for a minor god, Aravinth, one of a number of gods who lived in the court of Indra the ancient Indian god of thunder who was said to be the King of the gods. Other gods of Indra's court include Vayu - the god of wind and Agni - the god of fire. It is believed that Aravinth was the god of wit, intelligence and shrewd scholarship, before the arrival of the trinity - Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma in Hindu religion. Some stories say Aravinth often visited earth in his avatar form, testing and rewarding men for their wit.
Arvind Mithal (usually referred to as just Arvind) is the Johnson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM, and he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008.
Arvind's research interests include verification of large-scale digital systems using Guarded Atomic Actions, Memory Models and Cache Coherence Protocols for parallel architectures and languages.
Past work was instrumental in the development of dynamic dataflow architectures, the parallel programming languages, Id and pH; and the compilation of these types of languages on parallel machines.
Arvind earned his Bachelor's degree in technology (with an emphasis in Electrical Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, in 1969. He discovered in the process of earning his degree that he was keenly interested in computers. Subsequently, Arvind earned his Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota in 1972, and he earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota in 1973.
Arvind Limited (formerly Arvind Mills) is a textile manufacturer and the flagship company of the Arvind Group. Its headquarters is in Naroda, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. It has units at Santej (near Kalol). It manufactures cotton shirting, denim, knits and bottomweights (Khakis) fabrics. It has also recently ventured into technical textiles when it started Advanced Materials Division in 2011. It is India's largest denim manufacturer apart from being world’s fourth-largest producer and exporter of denim.
Sanjaybhai Lalbhai is the Chairman & Managing Director of Arvind & Lalbhai Group. In the early 1980s, Sanjay Lalbhai led the 'Reno-vision' whereby the company brought denim into the domestic market, thus starting the jeans revolution in India. Today it retails its own brands like Flying Machine, Newport and Excalibur and licensed international brands like Arrow, Lee, Wrangler and Tommy Hilfiger, through its nationwide retail network. Arvind also runs a value retail chain, Megamart, which stocks company brands.