Pitroda, Bhagwati, Shyamalan among awardees by Eugene Correia
Mumbai: Fifteen people of Indian origin were honoured with the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards on the concluding day of the third Pravasi Divas in Mumbai on Jan. 9. Three of them are based in the United States -- Dr. Sam Pitroda, the man who pioneered the telecommunications era in modern India as Technology Advisor to the late Indian Prime Minister Sanjay Gandhi, Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati, of Columbia University, who is engaged in writing about developmental economics and has authored many papers on India's economy, Prof. Sunil Khilani, who teaches political science at John Hopkins University, Washington, DC, author Vikram Seth, who divides his time between India and USA, often in San Francisco, California. and filmmaker Manoj Night Shyamalan. Former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago and now the Opposition leader, Basdeo Panday, Lord Bhiku Chhotalal Parekh, a political scientist who has contributed tremendously to socio-political studies in both UK and India, Amina Cachalia, a social activist who founded the Women's Progressive Union in South Africa, Ahmed Kathrada, also from South Africa and a social activist who served in Nelson Mandela's cabinet, Alokeranjan Dasgupta, a noted translator of Bengali poetry and former teacher at the South Asian Institute, University of Heidelberg, Vijay Singh, one of the world's leading golfer, from Fiji, J.K. Chande, a community leader in Tanzania, M. Arunachalam, Hong Kong businessmen and cultural activist, M.A. Yussuffali, who runs a big grocery business in the United Arab Emirates and also engaged in many charitable organizations, and Sant Singh Virmani, of the Phillipines, renowned for his research work in hybrid rice. Shymalan, Seth, Prof. Bhagwati and Vijay Singh were absent. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail