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Couldn’t resist posting this ......
Read the personal experience of Dean of IIT Chennai !!!!
Here is a personal experience, as well as a moment of national pride,which I want to share with you. Hope you find it worth the time you putin reading it :
"In the middle of 1965 India-Pakistan war, US govt - then a close friendof Pakistan - threatened India with stopping food-aid (remember"PL-480"?).
For a food deficient India this threat was serious and humiliating. Somuch so that in the middle of war, Prime Minister (Late) Lal BahadurShastri went to Ram Leela Grounds in Delhi and appealed to each Indianto observe one-meal-fast every week to answer the American threat. As aschool boy, I joined those millions who responded to Shastri ji's call.I continued the fast even when the war was over and India became selfsufficient in food.
Hurt deep by the national humiliation suffered at the hands of the USgovt, I had vowed to stop my weekly fast only when India starts givingaid to USA.
It took just 40 years. Last week THE day arrived. When Indian ambassadorin Washington DC handed over a cheque of US$ 50 million to the US govt,two plane loads of food, medical aid and other relief materials werewaiting to fly to the USA.
Time to break the fast? With no bad feelingabout the USA, and good wishes for the Katrina victims, this humbleIndian feels proud of the distance India has covered in 40 years. Let'scelebrate a New India!"
- Vijay Kranti.
Dean - IIT Madras
Read the personal experience of Dean of IIT Chennai !!!!
Here is a personal experience, as well as a moment of national pride,which I want to share with you. Hope you find it worth the time you putin reading it :
"In the middle of 1965 India-Pakistan war, US govt - then a close friendof Pakistan - threatened India with stopping food-aid (remember"PL-480"?).
For a food deficient India this threat was serious and humiliating. Somuch so that in the middle of war, Prime Minister (Late) Lal BahadurShastri went to Ram Leela Grounds in Delhi and appealed to each Indianto observe one-meal-fast every week to answer the American threat. As aschool boy, I joined those millions who responded to Shastri ji's call.I continued the fast even when the war was over and India became selfsufficient in food.
Hurt deep by the national humiliation suffered at the hands of the USgovt, I had vowed to stop my weekly fast only when India starts givingaid to USA.
It took just 40 years. Last week THE day arrived. When Indian ambassadorin Washington DC handed over a cheque of US$ 50 million to the US govt,two plane loads of food, medical aid and other relief materials werewaiting to fly to the USA.
Time to break the fast? With no bad feelingabout the USA, and good wishes for the Katrina victims, this humbleIndian feels proud of the distance India has covered in 40 years. Let'scelebrate a New India!"
- Vijay Kranti.
Dean - IIT Madras
posted by Nostalgia at 7:22 AM
2 Comments:
wish u a very safe and a happy Diwali
hummm great
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