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(Continued) For the past two years I have been chronicling in The Bright Face of India events in our country and achievements of our countrymen and countrywomen in several fields which bring cheer to patriotic citizens.I have now opened this new page for convenience in continuing the chronicle. 1.GE's Faith in Indian capabilities (posted on Oct 6,2000) Impressed by the excellence of work done by Insitutions like The National Chemical Laboratory,Pune and The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and the capability of Indian Engineers and scientists,GE of USA has established at Bangalore The John F Welch Technology Centre,which will be as big as the one at Schenectady in USA. Source The Business World,Oct 2,2000. 2.Indian Scientist wins Food Prize (posted on Oct 13,2000) An Indian Plant Scientist Dr Surinder K Vasal and a Mexican scientist Dr Evangelina Vilegas,were awarded the millenium food prize of $250,000 for developing a high-yielding protein rich corn, a result of 30 years' research. Source:The Hindu, Oct 13,2000. 3.Ford's Rs200- crore IT hub in Chennai (posted on Nov 3,2000) Ford India will occupy 90,000 sq ft at the TIDEL PARK, Chennai to set up its information Technology Centre for the entire Asia-Pacific region, eventually employing 2500 software personnel.The allotment letter for the space was handed over by Chief Minister Karunanidhi to Philip Spender,Mg Director of Ford India Ltd. Source:The Hindu,Nov 2,2000. 4.Gender Justice With A Vengeance! (posted on November27,2000) Asha Devi alias Amarnath Yadav, a eunuch,has been elected Mayor of Gorakhpur City, UP.Contesting as an independent she/he defeated the candidates of all organided political parties all of whom forfeited their security deposits.The citizens are disgusted with the organised political parties.This is indeed gender justice with a vengeance.Gorakhpur is known as a seat of orthodoxy. I have included this item on this page to illustrate what peoples' anger can achieve. Source:The Hindu,Nov 27,2000. 5.A heart-warming story of compassion (posted on Dec 15.2000) Here is a heart-warming story of compassion from Chennai. 6-year old Akshaya Somasundaram died in an accident.The parents,inspite of their grief, took care to donate the child's kidney to Appolo Hospital and eyes to Sankar Netralaya. Let us salute these ordinary human beings for their extra-ordinary act of compasion! Source:The New Indian Express dated Dec 15. 6.Electoral System in USA & India (posted on Dec 15,2000) The recently concluded Presidential election in USA has shown up the many flaws in the county's electoral system.These are:
Against the above,India has a uniform electoral law applicable to the whole country, a statutory Election Commission supervising the elections and simple tried and tested Electronic voting machines, being progressively used for fool-proof registration of voter intent. USA can adopt some of the above with advantage rather than attempting to re-invent the wheel!At least in future elections confusion as in the recent one can be avoided. 7.Anand Brings Glory To India (posted on Dec 25,00) Viswanathan Anand has created history by becoming the first Asian to become World chess champion, when he defeated Spain's Shirov by a 3.5 to 0.5 margin in the FIDE championship at Teheran on Dec.24.
(photo courtesy The Hindu) For me and my family it is a matter of special pride since we had known Anand as a toddler in the Railway colony at Perambur.His father was a senior colleague of mine. 8.India's Own Fighter Aircraft (Posted on Jan 5,2001)
Thursday,January 4,2001 was a Red Letter Day for India.On that day India's own Light Combat Fighter Aircraft was successfully test- flown.Though the project had suffered enormous delays,the successful test flying and plans for production have brought cheer to the country. 9.Indian receives US Patent for Flash memory chips. Manu Agarwal, a Mumbayi-based technocrat who is a product of IIT,Kanpur and University of Minnesota has received a US patent for breakthrough technology in flash memory chips, developed by him jointly with Manek Advani and Dr K Reza, when he was working with Wafer Scale Integration in USA. Source:The New Indian Express,6/12/01 10.Sucessful Testing of Agni II Missile. (posted on Jan 18,2001) On January 17, the Agni II missile with a range of 2000 kilometres was successfully test fired ' to bridge a key gap in India's evolving nuclear forces'. I have recorded this here even though I do not support development of nuclear weapons by any country. . 11.World's Best Railway Time-table. India can take legitimate pride in the development of the current Railway Time-tables, said to be the world's best.Original design was by Southern Railway jointly with a private company.The same user-friendly format has been adopted for the all-India Time table. 12.Indian Scientist Gets U S Patent For Virtual Smells etc. Stiff competition from multi-nationals notwithstanding, an Indian scientist,Sandeep Jaidka, has received a US patent for the world's first multi-media invention for virtual reality device for producing relevant smells and sensations that would enhance the viewing pleasure of a scene being shown on TV, cinema or the Internet. Source:The Hindu Business Line dated 15/2/2001 13 A Day Of Triumph for Indian Sports (posted on March 12,2001) March 11,2001 was a Day of Triumph for Indian sports.An Indian won the All-England Badminton championship,considered equivalent to World Championship) after 20 years. Another Indian created history by becoming the first Indian bowler to perform a hat-trick in a Test Match, that too against mighty Australia.Chetan Sharma and Kapil Dev had hat-tricks to their credit in 1-day matches.
P Gopichand won the final in straight games against Chen Hong of China.He did not lose a single game in the championship matches. He is the second Indian to win the championship, the first being Prakash Padukone in 1980.
Harbhajan Singh achieved the coveted sucess in the second Test at Kolkata.He took 5 wickets for 66 on the first day of the match, when Australia appeared set for a huge total. Source:The Hindu, dated 12/3/01. Pictures courtesy The Times of India. You too can contribute to this page.Please send the items by e-mail to me indicating the source and brief particulars about yourself. About myself & This site The Bright Face of India The Bright Face of India-II For A Clean Face Of India Preventable Train Accidents Consumer Problems Suggestions!Suggestions! A Citizen's Anguish Bharat Mail World Media Carnatic Music Site My Other Site
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