Meanwhile, Dham learnt from dealing with several customers that there was an emerging need for developing chips that could effectively transfer voice over the Internet.

Accessible until recent times only by arduous and lengthy walking trails that repeatedly exceeded 4000 meters, the Chota Char Dham was long dominated by wandering ascetics and other religious professionals, along with a handful of devoted retirees and wealthy patrons who could afford a traveling entourage.

Prof. Sunil Handa, Padma Shri Prof. Anil K. Gupta, Sanjeev Bhikchandani, Vinod Dham, Arjun Malhotra, and Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw are some of the speakers who have delivered lectures within and outside IIT-Kgp.

Dham also donated to and is involved with TeachAIDS where an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the fields of education, public health, communications and medicine have been working together to develop pedagogically grounded, research-based, rich-media applications to promote HIV / AIDS prevention despite numerous social and cultural barriers.

Dham and his wife Sadhana, who is also on the Board of Advisors, have also been long-time supporters of Home of Hope, a charity with a mission to provide the basic necessities of life to orphans and underprivileged children in India.

* The Shree Raseshwari Radha Rani Temple at Radha Madhav Dham in Austin, Texas, USA, established by Jagadguru Shree Kripaluji Maharaj, is one of the largest Hindu Temple complexes in the Western Hemisphere, and the largest in North America.

He entered the Dham without Lord Vishnu's permission and saw that the Lord was resting at that time.

According to Hindu mythology, goddess of prosperity and wife of Lord Vishnu, Maha Laxmi also witnessed the whole incident, as she was also present in the Dham at that time.

Important express trains which has stoppage at Nabadwip Dham are15643 UP / 15644 DN Puri-Kamakhya Express15959 UP / 15960 DN Howrah-Tinsukia-Dibrugarh Kamrup Express13141 UP / 13142 DN Sealdah-New Alipurduar / Haldibari Teesta Torsha Express13164 UP / 13165 DN Sealdah-Barauni-Katihar-Saharsha Hatey Bazare Express13145 UP / 13146 DN Sealdah-Radhikapur Radhikapur Express13011 UP / 13012 DN Howrah Maldah Intercity Express13421 UP / 13422 DN Nabadwip Dham-New Frakka Express15721 UP / 15722 DN New Jalpaiguri-Digha Paharia Express12517 UP / 12518 DN Kolkata Guwahati Garib Rath Express.

The Dham has stay facility for the devotees at “ Yatri Niwas ” which can accommodate more than 90 people at a time.

Dham completed his graduation in Electrical Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering in 1971 at the age of 21.

Dham played an instrumental role in the launch of K6 – the " Pentium killer " processor at rival AMD.

As a young graduate in 1971 Dham worked for Continental Devices India Limited, Delhi, one of India ’ s only private silicon semiconductor start-ups at the time which collaborated with Teledyne Semiconductor in California.

Doing this at front end, Dham said, more than paid for itself by avoiding most revisions in later stages.

( Ref: Business India 5 – 18 June 1995 ) In 1995, at the age of 45, after spending 16 years at Intel and reaching the top management of the company, Dham had a “ mid -­ life crisis ” and was itching to do something different.

Even at Intel, Dham took chances, such as his prescient decision to work on processors when he was done with being in R & D. By the time Dham quit Intel, he had already built a tremendous brand for himself.

After spending a year at AMD post-acquisition, Dham joined another startup in April 1998 – Silicon Spice as its President and CEO.

With demand for communications-related chips then growing at 20 % per annum, Dham and Silicon Spice's three MIT grad co-founders wanted a piece of the pie.

Dham explains, “ The Internet protocol was being used mainly for data and delivering voice over the Internet, which was designed primarily for data transfer and was a tricky problem in terms of technology .” Dham redirected the company to build this new chip to support VoIP ( Voice over Internet Protocol ), among the first in the world at the time.

Dham was profiled at the Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas in 2007, organised by the Ministry of Overseas Affairs of the government of India ; a high recognition for Global Indian Luminaries including Amar Bose, Indra Nooyi, Vinod Khosla, Arun Sarin, Lakshmi Mittal.

Dham was awarded the NRI Achievement Award at the NRI Global Summit in Oct 2009 by the NRI institute, a New Delhi-based nonprofit.

Originally, the appellation Char Dham referred to a pilgrimage circuit encompassing four important temples — Puri, Rameshwaram, Dwarka, and Badrinath — located roughly at the four cardinal points of the subcontinent.

After the 1962 war between India and China, however, accessibility to the Chota Char Dham improved, as India's short-lived efforts at Himalayan expansionism required massive road building and other infrastructure investments.

The idol was sent to Salasar and was consecrated at the place presently known as Salasar Dham.

Hundreds of Bhils were shot dead at the Mangarh hillock where they were holding a peaceful meeting by the Mewar and Sirohi forces. The place has become sacred and is better known as the Mangarh Dham.

Dham believes that Intel ’ s ability to “ focus and execute ” while maintaining full compatibility of application software with its previous generation microprocessors was the key reason for its success over dozens of these big competitors.

In a Business Week cover story on Intel ’ s new processors, Dham was quoted as the general manager of 586 processor group.

Dham says he was a keen observer of how Andy Grove built the strategy and the organisation for Intel ’ s success in the microprocessor business.

Dham, with his wide -­ ranging Intel experience, turned around NexGen ’ s strategy.

*" The best thing that happened to me was joining Intel and the best thing that happened to me was leaving Intel ," says Dham in one of his vapid sound bites that make him so popular with journalists.

Around 1680, a prominent family member Hiroo Dham Singh went to Kailas Mansarovar for pilgrimage.

These two along with Badrinath and Kedarnath form the Chota Char Dham, a holy pilgrimage for the Hindus.

Having Dham on the board was coup for the small chip maker which has been looking to make a mark in the microprocessor world.

Dham convinced the NexGen management to explore what appeared to be a perfect synergy for merging the two companies -­ NexGen had a product but no factories and process technology, AMD had a factory and advanced technology but no product.

In a little over two years ( in August, 2000 ), Dham sold Silicon Spice to Broadcom for a whopping U. S. $ 1. 2 billion in an all stock deal.

Having learnt that the opportunities for venture backed startups in India will likely revolve more around services required to meet the needs of India ’ s growing consumer class, Dham subsequently co-founded NEA-IndoUS Ventures a cross border India ­ focused fund in 2006 with New Enterprise Associates ( NEA ).

Buoyed by " religious tourism " and by the rise of a conservative Hindu population compelled by sites that speak to the existence of an all-India Hindu culture, the Chota Char Dham has become an important destination for pilgrims from throughout South Asia and the diaspora, particularly Bengalis, Marwaris, Oriyas, Marathis, Gujaratis, Delhites and people from Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand.

Lakhisarai is a small town and it is famous for its ancient lord Shiva temple ( Ashok Dham ) and Vermilion ( Sindur ) factory.

The town has blessings of many religious mentors, it includes Dargah of Hazrat Nazmudin, Temple of Do-Janti Balaji Dham ( which is famous for its exterior hand made stone bricks construction and in-side Lord Sun painting ), etc.

Salasar Balaji or Salasar Dham in India is a place of religious importance for the devotees of Hanuman.

Dham, who had made a career out of microprocessors, was no longer interested in just chips, which form the guts and brains of personal computers.