Shri Thanedar

What grabs me about Shri Thanedar is the sheer span of his reinventions. A chemist from small-town Chikodi who built a business empire, wrote books, and then landed in the U.S. Congress representing Michigan is not a tidy career arc, it is three or four lives stacked on top of each other. I read his trajectory as proof that the immigrant story still has room for genuine risk-takers who refuse to settle into one identity. Plenty of people pivot once and call it bold. Thanedar kept pivoting well past the age most folks coast, and I find that restlessness genuinely admirable rather than merely scattershot.

Name (English)

Shri Thanedar

Name (Japanese)

シュリー・サネダー

Reading

しゅりー・さねだー

Born

February 22, 1955 (age 71)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Goat

Origin

Chikodi, Belagavi district, India

Occupation

author / businessperson / politician

University

University of Mumbai

• Official sitehttps://www.shri2018.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shri%20Thanedar
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7503912

Tags

• Belagavi district
• author
• businessperson
• politician

Last updated

2026-06-17

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