The Nominations...
Name: Vivek Thomas
Email: baaz29@hotmail.com
Nomination: The Indian Scientist
Reason why: He/She has triumphed over all odds and has made the whole world recognise India as a force to be reckoned with.
Name: S D Malik
Email: maliksd@hotmail.com
Nomination: Amratya Sen
Reason why: For winning the Nobel Prize in Economics
Name: K Ram
Email: 7ramk@pgplan.iimahd.ernet.in
Nomination: Sachin Tendulkar
Reason why: He is one Indian who has saved India's face repeatedly this year. He went on to prove that he is a class apart.
Name: K S Sreenivas
Email: sreeniks@wipsys.soft.net
Nomination: A P J Abdul Kalam
Reason why: A simple person with a great vision for India's future.
Name: Gaurav Garg
Email: gaurav-g@mailcity.com
Nomination: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Reason why: For carrying out the much-awaited nuclear tests and
exercising the option that most of the previous governments dared not. It still remains to be seen how he handles the post-Pokhran situation and emerges as a winner.
Name: Anand R
Email: Anand_R@rediffmail.com
Nomination: Sachin Tendulkar
Reason why: Because he has made India proud by being the number one batsman in the world.
Name: Sameer Desai
Email: desai_sam@yahoo.com
Nomination: Sachin Tendulkar
Reason why: Need I mention anything?
Name: Vilas Kanyal
Email: vilas@tspl.com
Nomination: Amartya Sen
Reason why: Winning a Nobel Prize is a great
achievement which does the country proud. Also, he is very sensitive of
being an Indian.
Name: Sajith Sankar
Email: sajith@dilbert.iiml.ac.in
Nomination: Chandrababu Naidu
Reason why: He is the only Leader in India who has the vision and commitment to uplift the masses and take the country to the 21st century. We should try and see to it that he does to the country what he is doing for AP.
Name: Tanmay Modi
Email: tanmay@bigfoot.com
Nomination: Sachin Tendulkar
Reason why: For gifting India many international cricket matches - single-handedly
Name: Pranav Kabra
Email: pkingk@rediffmail.com
Nomination: Sachin Tendulkar
Reason why: Everyday, we see so much bad around us. Poverty, corruption, bad driving etc. And then you see this poster of Sachin, you feel, THERE's HOPE.
Name: Rahul Desai
Email: rahuldesai@hotmail.com
Nomination: Dr A P J Abdul Kalam
Reason why: Single-handedly has put India on the world map of technology. He is Modern India's answer to Ancient India's greatness
Name: Harshad Rao
Email: harshad.rao@mcdermott.com
Nomination: Sachin Tendulkar
Reason why: For displaying the endless
hunger to achieve greater heights in a country which loves to rest on past laurels.
For showing the kind of discipline, dedication, determination & quest
for quality in work in a country where these are impossible to find. For
displaying the kind of modesty &humility in spite of achieving a demi god status in a country
where the comman man is ridiculed by the very person he adulates & follows. For giving his best no matter what. For being the hero to a country of 1 billion desperately starved of one!
Name: Shoubhik Gupta
Email: shoubhik81@hotmail.com
Nomination: Amartya Sen
Reason why: Because of his single-handed victory in putting India on the world map.
Name: Simarprit Singh
Email: compare@vsnl.com
Nomination: Dhanraj Pillai
Reason why: After 32 years he brought "Our Cup" back home, and that also without the crores, and lopsided policies, and majority support for a minority sport (Only 7% of the countries of the world play cricket against 72% which play hockey)
Name: Dixit
Email: iafd@vsnl.com
Nomination: Chandrababu Naidu
Reason why: He has done for Andhra Pradesh what no Indian politician has done since Independence. It is remarkable how he has developed
the state with single-minded purpose. We need more such result-oriented politicians in our country.
Name: Tom
Email: dominic1@MINDSPRING.COM
Nomination: George Fernandes
Reason why: Indians now can have a good night's sleep without fear of a nuclear attack from China and Pak.
Name: Gaurav Sojatia
Email: gsojatia@hotmail.com
Nomination: Shri Amritya Sen
Reason why: Only he has done SOMETHING to glad be about.
Name: VIREN S GUPTE
Email: vireng11@hotmail.com
Nomination: Sachin Tendulkar
Reason why: A true silver lining in the otherwise gloomy Indian landscape. He is the only guy who by his attitude has elevated cricket to a high plain. His explosive batting has set the cricketing world on fire. Including the great Don. A perfect sportsman and a great Indian to watch for another decade.
Name: SUNIL JAIN
Email: sunilindore@hotmail.com
Nomination: Sachin Tendulkar
Reason why: He is one of the finest cricketer of the present generation. His dominance in the cricketing world was evident this year when he single-handedly destroyed the Austrailian bowling (including the legendary Shan Warne) at home ground as well as at Dhaka and Sharjah.
Name: Zahid Shaikh
Email: zshaikh@ubmail.com
Nomination: Ratan Tata
Reason why: For having proved to the world that we Indians can also make a world class CAR -- The Indica! It's better than being proud about a stupid bomb yaar! What say?
Name: Sai Kumar R
Email: saiku@yahoo.com
Nomination: Sachin Tendulkar
Reason why: No man in India carries an entire country's hopes on his shoulders every time he walks out to the middle. And no man delivers so unfailingly. Tendulkar is a man who gives the man on the street something to be proud of. Amartya Sen has achieved glory but not in the lap of the country but on foreign shores where his origins count little. He is not India's torch of joy. Sachin is!!
Name: Avinash Kodwaney
Email: akodwaney@hotmail.com
Nomination: Sachin Tendulkar
Reason why: He is the only one in the world of cricket of whom any country is afraid of.
Name: Amit maheshwari
Email: MAMIT@EMAIL.COM
Nomination: Chandrababu Naidu
Reason why: Will surely lead India to greatness. Started the information revolution in India.
Name: Deepak Jain
Email: deepakj@usa.net
Nomination: Chandrababu Naidu
Reason why: He has shown that a single man can bring lot of changes. He has proved to be a model politician by not resorting to populist measures. He has shown guts by taking decisions that might reduce his votes. Many other CMs are now trying to emulate him. Sachin might have made dozens of centuries, Dr A P J Abdul Kalam might have helped India's defences, but the only Indian who worked to bring prosperity for everyone is Chandrababu Naidu.
Name: Manas Das
Email: dasmanas@hotmail.com
Nomination: Dingko Singh
Reason why: He faced insurmountable odds & came out tops. The true winner. The grit & determination he has shown in punching his way to the Asiad Gold is exemplary. This Manipuri lad gets my vote.
Name: J.M.Jayaprakash
Email: pjmj@hotmail.com
Nomination: Amartya Sen and Sachin Tendulkar
Reason why: Amartya Sen cos' he made us feel real proud after so many years. Sachin cos' being a young lad he's achieved more than most of us in the world.
Name: R.Balachander
Email: Bhibhu74@hotmail.com
Nomination: Chandrababu Naidu
Reason why: For his efforts in promoting Andhra Pradesh for investment (especially in Computer Industry) by removing redtapism
Name: Nikhil Bhingarde
Email: nbhingarde@hotmail.com
Nomination: Dingko Singh
Reason why: Beacause he's won an individual gold at the Asian games when the entire system was against him. It takes great courage to do this at such a young age and that too when hailing from a region which has been grossly neglected by the administrators.
Name: Jayant Durgad
Email: jayant_durgad@hotmail.com
Nomination: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Reason why: I feel he is the best prime minister India has had in recent times. He is capable of doing what is needed to be done to make India a better nation but is not able to do so because of the power hungry Congress and Jayalalitha. He should rightly be selected as Rediff Indian of the Year.
Name: Ramesh Babu R M
Email: rmrameshbabu@hotmail.com
Nomination: Indian Nuclear Scientists
Reason why: In spite of all odds loaded heavily against them they have done a tremendous job in taming nuclear energy. They have made India proud in spite of the indecisive & spineless politicians India has had all these years.
Name: Veeraraghavan T E
Email: vraghavan_te@hotmail.com
Nomination: Leander Paes
Reason why: Never has Paes given anyone a doubt about his commitment to tennis, and particularly, the country. This is obvious from his phenomenal exploits in the Davis Cup. (He has beaten people as highly ranked as Goran Ivanisevic). Surely, the other much talked-about Indians have a lot to learn from Leander's commitment, be it in sports or anything concerned with the country.
Name: Manoj Nair
Email: manoj.comports.com
Nomination: Chandrababu Naidu
Reason why: Leader with a vision -- the need of the hour!
Name: Dr Milind S Wagh
Email: wagh@bom5.vsnl.net.in
Nomination: Sachin Tendulkar
Reason why: Superlative. Awesome. Commanding. Heroic. Incredible. Nonpareil. Tremendous. Exciting. Never-say-die. Dazzling. Ultimate. Laudable.
Killer-instinct. Arresting. Record-breaking.
Name: Venkat Kumar
Email: vkp@unlinfo.unl.edu
Nomination: Dr Amartya Sen!
Reason why: There is nothing to my belief that is greater than winning the Nobel Prize and bringing pride to India.
Name: Sriram Narayanan
Email: sriramna@md3.vsnl.net.in
Nomination: Mr Chandrababu Naidu
Reason why: He is now India's CEO
Name: Tushar Belwal
Email: tbelwal@hotmail.com
Nomination: Sachin Tendulkar
Reason why: He provides us with moments of national pride. He is someone whom every one can look up to as a HERO
Name: Meenakshi Dass
Email: meenakshidass@yahoo.com
Nomination: The common person
Reason why: 'The great onion crisis' has not held back the commoner in India from surviving the toughest of times. All the other nominees are earning a lot of money to spend on the most expensive items/commodities. In INDIA it is only survival of the fittest. The common person is the fittest.
Name: Rahul Shenoy
Email: rahul_shenoy@hotmail.com
Nomination: Abdul Kalam
Reason why: This man has dedicated his life for the country's defence purposes. He also lives a life which is what a true patriot should live. We haven't heard
of a single blemish in his distinguished career. The other person who comes close to him is A B Vajpayee. However, he is yet to perform to the people's expectations. Chandrababu Naidu is also a person who has shown that one can be in politics and perform too!!!
Name: anant baliga
Email: anantbaliga@hotmail.com
Nomination: Amartya Sen
Reason why: Not because he is Indian in the narrow sense, and not because he won the Nobel Prize. There is so much to learn from both his teachings and also from his life. He has a global vision and his views are refreshingly open .We Indians who are so obsessed with our closed views & false sense of pride turning us virtually blind to other cultures need to listen to Sen to be able to appreciate the universality of culture, knowledge, and human achievements. He truly transcends national borders and his achievements should not only make us all proud, but we should attempt to read a little more of his writings in detail to be able to cast aside our narrow views.
Name: Sateesh Punnam
Email: sateesh@priestersupply.com
Nomination: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Reason why: With the decision to go for Nuclear tests he set the agenda for an assertive foreign policy.
Name: Ritesh Hirawat
Email: Ritesh78@hotmail.com
Nomination: Sachin Tendulkar
Reason why: In 1998, he has led India to many major victories single-handed.
Name: Keeron Modi
Email: keeron@iname.com
Nomination: Sachin Tendulkar
Reason why: Because he is the only person
who has throughout the year did some thing that has pleased all the Indians and all cricket lovers all over the world. No player is like him. He is simply the best.
Name: Naveen Seshadri
Email: naveens@vsnl.com
Nomination: Every Indian Jawan
Reason why: I have nominated the Indian Jawan because he is the one who keeps our country safe from each and every hostile neighbour that we have in the whole region, we don't have a clue about what the jawan faces in his quest to keep the country free of constant predators. I feel that without these jawans we wouldn't be alive.
Name: Milind Bhagavat
Email: bhagavat@mal.eng.sunysb.edu
Nomination: Laloo Prasad Yadav
Reason why: Greatest symbol of corruption. A true picture of the Bihari/Indian political spectrum.
Name: Gopi
Email: gmanne@netscape.net
Nomination: Chandrababu Naidu
Reason why: The only person who has plans and is determined to bring up technological changes in the country. The man, who I believe, is honest enough to do what he promised.
Name: Dr Subir Bandyopadhyay
Email: bandyopa@admin.uottawa.ca
Nomination: Professor Amartya Sen
Reason why: For winning the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics
Name: Keyurpatel
Email: keyur1234@aol.com
Nomination: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Reason why: Because he is true Hndustani. Long live Atalji!
Name: Gagandeep Singh
Email: gaganyo@yahoo.com
Nomination: Shekar Suman
Reason why: In the programme Movers and Shakers, he has been
constantly bringing out the evils facts of our today's world in a very hilarious way. He is giving us something to think about.
Name: Neeraj Verma
Email: Neeraj_Verma1@hotmail.com
Nomination: Abdul Kalam
Reason why: For his sheer dedication and improvement in technology!
Name: Anil Atri
Email: atrianil@del3.vsnl.net.im
Nomination: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Reason why: In this era when the presidents have lost their morality in public, state-backed terrorism is on the high, the young generation is lost, in this time of hatred, high tempers, back-stabbing, selfishness, I think Atal Bihari is one gentleman who is like a gentle balm on festering wounds.
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