Krishna Kumar Rangachari with his customer Dwight Hanshew at the 9/11 Heroes Run in Philadelphia.
While 15,000 people ran, 35,000 people cheered and some 1500 people volunteered at the 5K race in Philadelphia to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of September 11 attack on the World Trade Center, Sanmarite Dr Krishna Kumar Rangachari took part in the 9/11 Heroes Run in Philadelphia, in the company of client Dwight Hanshew, teaming up under the name “XX CASH” with one singular purpose – not to let go of the client, even if it means chasing him in foreign shores.
And after completing the running in the US, Krishna seemed to have sailed into the Marg half Marathon in Chennai, India on 6 November 2011, in the company of able team members from Sanmar Cat rd Cats.
The running event was conducted in the sprawling and beautiful campus of IIT Madras, and Krishna clocked a 6 km run in 31 minutes and 17 seconds, a personal best for him.
So much for client interfacing and team spirit!!
Sanmar’s Cat rd Cats team (l to r): N Prema Chandran, J Gnanam, R Stalin, K Sagar, Krishna Kumar Rangachari and S Venkatraghavan.
The Durban Conference of the Parties (COP) held in Durban, South Africa, in November assumes prominence in the context of climate change being an increasingly important issue across the world.
Sanmar daughter Sruti Neelakantan had the opportunity to take part in the Conference of Parties (COP) 17 held in Durban, South Africa between 3 – 9 December 2011.
An excerpt from Sruti’s fi rst hand observation of the conference:
“The Conference had 16,000 people representing different countries and cultures with a common agenda. It was great to be around a well-spirited environment with a sense of unity and passion to achieve climate justice.
I made it just in time to attend the launch of ‘Momentum for Change’. It provided me the opportunity to carefully listen and gain perspective from the plenary chaired by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, President of South Africa Jacob Zuma and UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres marking the initiative of the United Nations system. This conference as a whole was a great platform to meet leaders and negotiators from all over the world sometimes playing a huge role in the decisions you make. I also had the opportunity to meet and interact with Mrs Jayanthi Natrajan, Environment Minister of India.
COP 17 was a great learning experience. Real leadership is about creating more leaders, not followers. This saying was proved at Durban with youth from all over the world striving to initiate actions towards progressive development.”
Sruti, daughter of KV Neelakantan, is a fi nal year student of Journalism in MOP Vaishnav College for Women.
S Janaki of Sruti magazine recalls
In the late 1950s, ONGC (then a government department) launched its second deep drilling venture in the Cambay area in Gujarat. The drilling rig came from Rumania and was deployed in Cambay in 1958. By the end of the year, hydrocarbon presence was confi rmed in Cambay. S Srinivasan (my father who was among the fi rst 25 petroleum engineers in the world at that time and who later became well known as Prof S Srini-Vasan, Head, Dept of Petroleum Engineering, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad) was then working in ONGC and was among the fi rst qualifi ed drilling engineers in India at that time, having studied and worked in the USA before returning to India on Nehruji’s advice to serve the country.
On 4 April 1960, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru visited Cambay. While he was watching the crude fl ow out, some drops of the black gold spilled on to Nehru’s immaculate white sherwani. The people around him were shell shocked. But a visibly impressed Nehru proudly declared that the spots on his sherwani symbolised the aspirations of a nation. He carried that “souvenir” back to Delhi. Years later when I visited Teen Murti House in Delhi (which houses Nehruji’s artefacts) with my parents, the guide pointed this out, among other things, and my father recalled this incident with pride – for he was the drilling engineer when they struck oil there.
S Srinivasan presenting a memento to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.