Tue Dec 5 17:02:43 2000
Name:Sushil
Email:urs_frd@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Karnam Malleshwari
Reason:the first female to get a medal that to in weightlifting. This huge continent could not win a single medal for its country.
she deserves it. she bought India's name on the medal tally list.
Tue Dec 5 17:02:48 2000
Name:Ashwin
Email:ashukijuban@rediffmail.com
Nomination:A B Vajpayee
Reason:The way Mr.PM is trying to solve the kashmir problem, the way he is trying to take India closer to the other nations of the world and ofcourse the way he is taking the chariot of NDA government with so many horses pulling it and he successfully making them to run in one direction.
Tue Dec 5 17:02:48 2000
Name:Ajay Luthraq
Email:ajay_luthra@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Karnam Malleshwari
Reason:She has brought the one and only good & great news for India during the entire 2000.
Tue Dec 5 17:03:28 2000
Name:Suranga Date
Email:suranga@cse.iitb.ernet.in
Nomination:Sachin Tendulkar
Reason:Not because of all his centuries etc.
Its because, in this age of cheating, selling
your country's games for personal monetary gain,
and everybody out to make a fast buck,
here's a chap, whose hard work, work ethics,
behaviour in public , I can still hold up as
an "ideal" for my children to look up to.
Tue Dec 5 17:03:31 2000
Name:ajay
Email:nairajay@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Hritik Roshan
Reason:well 4 his fantastic perfomance in his movies.He is wooed even by NRIs .
Tue Dec 5 17:03:31 2000
Name:ashwin sunderkumar
Email:skashwin@rediffmail.com
Nomination:atal bihari vajpayee
Reason:despite all his health problems he managed to keep india afloat on the worldwide
scenario
Tue Dec 5 17:03:40 2000
Name:Jacob Thomas v
Email:jacobmec@hotmail.com
Nomination:S Ganguly
Reason:Made a respectable come back for India to International Cricket
Tue Dec 5 17:03:56 2000
Name:K.C.Bachhawat
Email:kcbachhawat@rediffmail.com
Nomination:A.B.Vajpayee
Reason:He has been a successful Prime Minister. He is honest and has brought political stability. It will improve our economy.
Tue Dec 5 17:04:26 2000
Name:Ameet Prabhu Salgaonker
Email:ameet99@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Reason:He has led India for a period of 2 yrs. in which his govt. has taken many harsh steps for improving the economy.
Tue Dec 5 17:04:35 2000
Name:Akhilesh
Email:akhil25@hotmail.com
Nomination:A B Vajpayee
Reason:Best PM India has ever had
Tue Dec 5 17:04:36 2000
Name:Anup
Email:anup_j@hotmail.com
Nomination:Amitabh Bachchan
Reason:He has made a come back in the most popular & viewed by every one KBC
Tue Dec 5 17:05:05 2000
Name:Ragha Medha
Email:imok@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Amitabh Bachchan
Reason:For reviving ABCL and starting a second innings
Tue Dec 5 17:05:15 2000
Name:Ramesh
Email:tvnramesh@yahoo.com
Nomination:Karnam Malleshwari
Reason:Yes! Malleshwari.K should be the Rediff Indian of Year.
Even under huge pressure, not sure whether she will be in the squad for the olympics. She was ready and well determined to win a Medal for the country. If in the final stages of the lift if she was not given wrong advice with wrong weights, she might have won the GOLD for India. She has the spirit in her and made India proud. Remember that the sole bronze medal she brought it for one Billion people of INDIA.
I Love INDIA.
JAI HIND
Tue Dec 5 17:05:20 2000
Name:Girish
Email:girish.satar1@usa.net
Nomination:Karnam Malleshwari
Reason:She's the only one sportswoman who brought the medal for India and not letting Indians their name down.
Tue Dec 5 17:05:27 2000
Name:Jacob Joseph P
Email:jacobdirect@yahoo.co.uk
Nomination:The Indian Jawan
Reason:For remaining apolitcal and protecting the nation against all types of threats.
Tue Dec 5 17:05:38 2000
Name:amansingh
Email:aman_chadha@yahoo.co.uk
Nomination:atal bihari vajpayee
Reason:We have a prime minister, who may not be a saint, or a charmer, but is personally honest, and good for the country.
We need not worry about him being corrupt, for he has no family to earn for. He is wise and if given a freer hand may be able to get our economy on to the fast track, with the help of his finance minister, who seems to want to carry on from where Manmohan singh left off.
Tue Dec 5 17:05:53 2000
Name:Ankit Sharma
Email:ankit_prince@usa.net
Nomination:Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Reason:He is a real leader ....he has the potential to lead the country towards development and already has contributed a lot in year 2000. After many years India can look towards a leader...who is accepted and respected by all.
Tue Dec 5 17:05:55 2000
Name:Sunil
Email:sunil76@yahoo.com
Nomination:Dhanraj Pillay (Actually the whole Indian hockey team)
Reason:For reviving our interest in our national sport thru his(their) tremedous play in the Olympics
Tue Dec 5 17:06:14 2000
Name:Kumar
Email:kumar898@yahoo.com
Nomination:Saurav ganguly
Reason:Best for indian cricket
Tue Dec 5 17:06:15 2000
Name:Deepak Dudhane
Email:dudhanedl@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Reason:He has shown remarkable success, patience and statesmanship in the face of problems created by obdurate and incompetent people around him.
Tue Dec 5 17:06:29 2000
Name:Nikhil Sharma
Email:sharma_nikhil@hotmail.com
Nomination:Sachin Tendulkar
Reason:Just keeps going regardless of who or what he's facing !
Tue Dec 5 17:06:46 2000
Name:Kerul Patel
Email:kerulpatel@hotmail.com
Nomination:Prime Minister A B Vajpayee
Reason:He's considered the most influential man in the world. He's initiated and laid the foundation for a India's key problems e.g. Kashmir. You'll see the results in the years to come.
Tue Dec 5 17:07:15 2000
Name:Deepak D'Cunha
Email:dpks@usa.net
Nomination:Mr. Atal Bihari Vajapeyi
Reason:For giving India a stable Govt. and also for his efforts in making India a strong country.
Tue Dec 5 17:08:22 2000
Name:John Rodrigues
Email:rodrigues_john@hotmail.com
Nomination:Vajpayee
Reason:He held together a fragile coalition
Tue Dec 5 17:08:31 2000
Name:seetharaman
Email:a_seetharaman@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Vajpayee
Reason:for leading the country in difficult time(made difficult by his allies) and doing reasonably good when the opposition is in disarray
Tue Dec 5 17:08:55 2000
Name:B S Gandhi
Email:gandhibs@yahoo.com
Nomination:Chandra Babu Naidu
Reason:Hyderabad has started attracting lot of attention, from MNCs, NRIs and several foreign investors in the field of IT. Economic reforms slowed down all around the country, but methods to propel the growth rate in to the next orbit are clearly visible in AP.
This is only because of Naidu and his untiring efforts to convert his vision into reality.
Tue Dec 5 17:09:34 2000
Name:murali shankar
Email:murali.shankar@wipro.com
Nomination:NARAYANA MURTHY OF INFOSYS
Reason:HE HAS DONE INDIA PROUD BY MAKING
AN INDIAN COMPANY AS ONE OF THE MOST
ADMIRED ONE IN INDIA. HE HAS PUT INDIA
ON THE WORLD MAP THROUGH HIS
VISION, SIMPLICITY AND NOBLE
HUMANISM.
Tue Dec 5 17:09:54 2000
Name:srikanth rao
Email:m_srikanthrao@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Karnam Malleshwari
Reason:she made all the indians feel proud by winning a madel in the olympics she not only proved that indians can do anything but also will be a sure hope for rest of the indians who will to go and make it big. thus i vote for her to be the rediff indian of the year. there are lot of people other then her but she is the right person to be it
Tue Dec 5 17:09:58 2000
Name:subhashkc
Email:subhashkc@rediffmail.com
Nomination:rediff
Reason:fastest mail service i ever worked!
Tue Dec 5 17:10:20 2000
Name:Seraj
Email:seraj_r@usa.net
Nomination:Mr. Veerappan
Reason:He was in the limeilght for more than 100 days and he was resposible for paralysing life in Bangalore after 30 years. He's the nightmare of most of the politicians in south india. He's worshipped by the people near satyamangalam forest and what else a man can achieve in his life.
He's the man of the millenium.
Tue Dec 5 17:10:33 2000
Name:Arun Kumar Bhol
Email:arun_chetna@rediffmail.com
Nomination:A.B.Vajpayee
Reason:For his dynamic role in indian politics as well in foreign affairs especially for ceasefire.
Tue Dec 5 17:10:35 2000
Name:shiva srinivas
Email:shivaksrinivas@yahoo.com
Nomination:A.B. Vajpayee
Reason:Because of his sincere efforts for the natinal priorities.
Because of raising the voice of our nation in UN.
Because of his prudence in international affairs.
Because he is the only politician with no corrupt background.
Because of his daring step to cieze the voilence in Kashmir through cease-fire.
Because of his patient approch towards national integrity.
Tue Dec 5 17:10:42 2000
Name:Rajesh Agrawal
Email:rajesh_agrawal@rocketmail.com
Nomination:Delhi Police
Reason:When Delhi Police released the by now infamous Cronje tapes, everyone (including Mr. Cronje) questioned the crdibility of an "Indian" govt. organisation. Later, all were proved wrong. My vote goes for Delhi Police (and not for Ms. Duttas, Ms. Chopras and Ms. Mirzas) in restoring the honour of India, albeit a wee bit.
Tue Dec 5 17:10:51 2000
Name:Narayan Rao
Email:nrao@vsnl.com
Nomination:Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Reason:Finally, our country has a decent human being and a competent, committed prime minister!
Tue Dec 5 17:11:11 2000
Name:R.Ramesh
Email:ramsravla@rediffmail.com
Nomination:veerappan
Reason:he became most talked about in
anybody's conversation.
May be he did a wrong thing.
The people behind him are more dangerous than him.
I admire his braveness
Tue Dec 5 17:11:19 2000
Name:Alok
Email:garg_alok@hotmail.com
Nomination:Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Reason:Due to his peace initiatives taken for resolving the Kashmir Problem.
Tue Dec 5 17:11:58 2000
Name:ALOKE DASGUPTA
Email:aloke_dg@satyam.net.in
Nomination:Md. Azzaruddin
Reason:For me, he tops the list on the "debit" side. And I see on one as good on the "credit" side. He, in his own way, has helped initiation of a process to clean up the mess.... hopefully !
Tue Dec 5 17:12:05 2000
Name:Sameer Chhabra
Email:chhabra_sameer@rediffmail.com
Nomination:NR Narayana Murthy
Reason:He remains the ideal business leader who has not only set an example in corporate governance, but also has been instrumental in making millionaires out of his employees, something our lala businessmen would never have done.
Also he is the spearhead of India's surge into the global business scenario thereby earning a lot of glory and changing the image of India
Tue Dec 5 17:12:11 2000
Name:veeresh
Email:veeresht@rediff.com
Nomination:soldiers
Reason:they fight for our sake.
Tue Dec 5 17:12:12 2000
Name:saurav
Email:sauravsanyal@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Jagmohan
Reason:The only one not weak Knee'd
Tue Dec 5 17:12:16 2000
Name:Padmakar Ojale
Email:ojalep@kpgraphics.com
Nomination:Karnam malleshwari
Reason:The only world class sports personality
Tue Dec 5 17:12:22 2000
Name:Krishna murthy P
Email:pkmurthy@saglobal.com
Nomination:Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Reason:For his tackling of various issues and bringing along the coalition without giving into undue demands
Tue Dec 5 17:12:38 2000
Name:vashishth maniar
Email:vashishth18@rediffmail.com
Nomination:atal bihari vajpayee
Reason:b'coz i feel the way he has handled the country in the time of crisis...its tremendous..!!a country with childish neighbours,poor economy& bad infrastructure is definitely a task to hold together..he held together the different fractions of NDA with panache & diplomacy..
...so hes my indian of the year..
Tue Dec 5 17:12:39 2000
Name:Avinash Puranik
Email:a1avi@yahoo.com
Nomination:Mr. Narayan Murty
Reason:Though he was in the news as
usual, but he who inspired the
worlds richest man Mr. Bill Gates
to invest in the Infosys( much
smaller orgnisation as compared with
Microsoft). This will help INDIA
for a bright future
Tue Dec 5 17:13:05 2000
Name:Dinakar
Email:dndinakar@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Reason:Not one,But Many.Worked on reforms.created good relationship with US and Russia.Now trying same thing with Pakistan.Able leader for india
Tue Dec 5 17:13:32 2000
Name:V Suresh
Email:v.suresh@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Veerappan
Reason:Proved that it does not take much to hold the Indian government to ransom - and get away with it!
Tue Dec 5 17:13:42 2000
Name:Venkata Krishnayya Kommu
Email:krishna_14770@rediffmail.com
Nomination:S.M krishna, chief minister of Karnataka
Reason:He is running his state well and could bring his state upward in rankings in most favoured states for FDI. He is more of action than propaganda. He is just opposite to N. Chandrababu Naidu
Tue Dec 5 17:14:36 2000
Name:VIKAS KASHYAP
Email:VIKASKASH@YAHOO.COM
Nomination:SHRI ATAL BIHARI VAJAPAYEE
Reason:For diplaying steward leadership in the wake of several national crisis. He can take India to its highest ladder of glory and soon India will emerge as a strong superpower in the galaxy of nations.
Tue Dec 5 17:14:42 2000
Name:Ravi P
Email:pravi1000@yahoo.com
Nomination:A B Vajpayee
Reason:Is ruling our country efficiently even through tied by co-alition partners and has established good relations with US and is very bold in initiating a unilateral ceasefire in J&K.
Tue Dec 5 17:15:30 2000
Name:Ashwin N
Email:n_ashwin@yahoo.com
Nomination:Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Reason: Finding an honest and able administrator among the Indian politicians
these days is a tough task.The one and the only man who stands out in both these qualities is our PM. A.B.Vajpayee.
He has been sincere in all his efforts and has also proved to many that he can be tough when situation demands (unlike the popular perception that he cannot be tough)
Tue Dec 5 17:15:59 2000
Name:Vishal Purohit
Email:vishalp2000@yahoo.com
Nomination:Hrithik Roshan
Reason:He really created a place in the hearts of people throughout india with his performance and dashing presence.
Tue Dec 5 17:16:19 2000
Name:Kumar
Email:seshakumar@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Karnam Malleswari
Reason:It required an Indian Woman to make her fellow countrymen hang their heads in shame, when men fight each other against women's reservation in Parlianment.
Tue Dec 5 17:16:24 2000
Name:Raghuraj Tipre
Email:raghu_tipre@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Mr. Jaywant Lele
Reason:For being the personification of incompetence and nepotism that plagues our public life.
Tue Dec 5 17:16:35 2000
Name:Rupali.S
Email:s_rupali@yahoo.com
Nomination:Mr. Atal Bihari Vaijpayee
Reason:Mr. AB.Vaijpayee has brought up the brightness towards the looked and stilled life of Jammu and Kasmiris by taking the fearless decision of Ceasefire. can anybody do it other than him.
The decsion above his seat, his policies, his mates and even his Govermennt.
He is the true person to give the Rediff indian of the year.
Tue Dec 5 17:16:43 2000
Name:Ravi
Email:ravi.shankar.s@in.pwcglobal.com
Nomination:Karnam Malleswari
Reason:One of the most important events that
has made Indians proud this year.
Tue Dec 5 17:16:54 2000
Name:Girish Khare
Email:gkhare@rediffmail.com
Nomination:N.R.Naraya Murthy
Reason:Mr. N.R. Narayana Murthy,has created history as the chairman of Infosys. He has not only taken Indian IT skills to a new level but also made strong and influential people like Bill Gates and Yoshiro Mori to take note of him and his company.Mr. Narayana Murthy has made himself nothing short of a legend in the modern India of 21st Century,which is on the path towards a superpower through IT.
In the year 2000,his company Infosys has been virtually controlling the BSE.The share of Infosys costs maximum at BSE these days.The rising velue of its share saw the record value of BSE Sensex in February when it crossed 6000+. All this is attributed to the skills of Mr.Narayana Murthy.
Therefore I think he deserves to be a man of Year more than anybody else.
Tue Dec 5 17:17:19 2000
Name:dhruv
Email:monster2u@rediffmail.com
Nomination:K.malleshwari
Reason:she was the only 1 who raised India's hopes. All others failed but she was the one which can make people say that India too won a medal. pity more of them are gobbled by the system.
Tue Dec 5 17:17:36 2000
Name:M.Suku
Email:msuku@vsnl.com
Nomination:Prime Minister Vajpayee
Reason:He has re-instilled in us a sense of pride and self esteem.
Today as an Indian, I am proud and confident inspite of so many problems which persist. Vajpayee is our great hope.
Tue Dec 5 17:17:40 2000
Name:S.Raju
Email:sampathraju@rediffmail.com
Nomination:A.B.VAJPAYEE
Reason:Inspite of all odds he was keeping cool and help
the country in progress.
He was responsible for
good relationship between
India and US also expose
Pakistan 's intentions to others.
Tue Dec 5 17:17:46 2000
Name:karikalan
Email:skarikalan@usa.net
Nomination:pazha.nedumaran
Reason:because of his sucess in Rajkumar's kidnap.
Tue Dec 5 17:18:08 2000
Name:Sudheer Narra
Email:sudheernarra@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Reason:he is a lot bette rthan many prime ministers India has ever had
inspite of burdens of a coalition government thinks are looking up
so i think vajpayeeji is my man of the year
best of luck for him and his good health
Tue Dec 5 17:18:13 2000
Name:vasanthi
Email:vasrajkr@satyam.net,in
Nomination:jaswant singh
Reason:he has been largely responsible for shaping our foreign policy,making India an important member of the global team
Tue Dec 5 17:19:46 2000
Name:sreenivas
Email:sreenivas_sri2k@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Karanam malleswari
Reason:Because, she only brought the pride to our country in olympics.Where everything counts for national interests and respects in world level compititions.
Naturally she will be my first and last choice.
Tue Dec 5 17:19:48 2000
Name:Harsha K
Email:harsha@pobox.com
Nomination:Abdul Kareem
Reason:He represented the courage that is lacking in most indians in taking on the establishment, which was hell bent on releasing TADA prisoners in exchange for Rajkumar. He had to endure the derision and threats to his life from the lobbies, but that didn't deter him from his course.
Tue Dec 5 17:19:54 2000
Name:shailesh dobhal
Email:shaileshdobhal@yahoo.com
Nomination:Vajpayee
Reason:Survival!
Tue Dec 5 17:20:18 2000
Name:Sharana Gouda
Email:sharana_gouda@rediffmail.com
Nomination:A.B.Vajpayee
Reason:He is the person who stood like a rock in all odds,from personal to political problems.
Tue Dec 5 17:20:20 2000
Name:rajender kothari
Email:rkkothari@123india.com
Nomination:JYOTI BASU
Reason:he is a living legend who had parted away from his CHAIR.
it is very much un-common now a days where people who try to stick on the chair even if they fail to recognise themselves!
beside that Mr.Jyoti Babu had given a true and a mature colour of India
Tue Dec 5 17:20:41 2000
Name:yogesh g bhobe
Email:yogesh_gb@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Reason:has been the most positive leader of the country for decades. leading a scam-free government which is against the norms of scam governments
Tue Dec 5 17:21:03 2000
Name:Jaya Sur
Email:jayasur@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Mr. Jyoti Basu
Reason:For the qualities of honesty and integrity in his dealings. For being a politician who did not ever seek cheap popularity by inflating communal feelings and for his unbigoted attitude. He is the only politician who has the courage of his convictions.
Tue Dec 5 17:21:15 2000
Name:sachin s bhatt
Email:sachinbhatt99@usa.net
Nomination:a b vajpayee
Reason:'cause i strongly believe that
he has given a platform to stand on for all indians at international level.
he did so many things which made every indian proud.
i salute him.
Tue Dec 5 17:21:25 2000
Name:Kanchan
Email:K_auris@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Indian Soldiers at Kashmir.
Reason:The Courage they have shown
to fight unto death for our country is the reason for them being the Rediff Indian of the year!!!!!!!!!!!!
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