Celebrate it
Ponneri is a small town near Madras. Half a century ago, Ranga Iyengar was the principal of the Government Board High School there. There is nothing different about this except that his son, Srinivasa Varadan, has risen to be one of the greatest mathematicians India has ever produced, winning the Abel Prize for Mathematics this year...
There is not much jubilation in India - media or among politicians - over this great feat. My opinion is that Amartya Sen's Nobel Prize announcement a few years ago received much more publicity and coverage in India.
Anyway, metaphorically, the achievers themselves are beyond these ephemeral ripples of public attention...
There is not much jubilation in India - media or among politicians - over this great feat. My opinion is that Amartya Sen's Nobel Prize announcement a few years ago received much more publicity and coverage in India.
Anyway, metaphorically, the achievers themselves are beyond these ephemeral ripples of public attention...