Dr. S. Jaishankar married to a Japanese woman Kyoko, has two sons Dhruva, Arjun and a daughter, Medha. He speaks Tamil, Hindi, English, Russian, Japanese, Chinese and some Hungarian. After joining the Indian Foreign Service in 1977, Jaishankar served as third secretary and
second secretary in the Indian mission to the Soviet Union in Moscow from 1979 to 1981, where he studied Russian. He returned to New Delhi, where he worked as a special assistant to the diplomat Gopalaswami Parthasarathy and as undersecretary in the Americas
division of India's Min. of External Affairs, dealing with USA. He was part of team that resolved dispute over supply of US nuclear fuel to Tarapur Power Stations in India. From 1985 to 1988 he was first secretary at Indian embassy in Washington, D.C.
#honesty
Remember this Kenyan runner Abel Mutai who was just a few feet from the finish line, but became confused with the signage and stopped, thinking he had completed the race. A Spanish runner, Ivan Fernandez, was right behind him and, realizing what was happening,
started shouting at the Kenyan to continue running. Mutai didn't know Spanish and didn't understand. Realizing what was taking place, Fernandez pushed Mutai to victory.
A journalist asked Ivan, "Why did you do that?"
Ivan replied, "My dream is that someday we can have a kind of community life where we push and help each other to win."
The journalist insisted "But why did you let the Kenyan win?" Ivan replied, "I didn't let him win, he was going to win. The race was his."
This is Matrix movie star Keanu Reeves. He was abandoned by his father at 3 years old and grew up with 3 different stepfathers. He is dyslexic. His dream of becoming a hockey player was shattered by a serious accident. His daughter died at birth. His wife died in a car accident.
His best friend, River Phoenix, died of an overdose. His sister battled leukemia.
No bodyguards, no luxury houses. Keanu lives in an ordinary apartment and likes wandering around town and often seen riding a subway in NYC.
When he was filming the movie "The Lake House," he overheard the conversation of two costume assistants, one crying as he would lose his house if he did not pay $20,000 - On the same day, Keanu deposited the necessary amount in his bank account.
In Kadali-vana, grove of plantains, he found Ramayana inscribed on seven broad leaves of a banana tree.
He read it and found it to be perfect. The most exquisite choice of grammar and vocabulary, metre and melody. He couldn't help himself. He started to cry.
A recipient of Best Librarian in India Award, Cambridge honored him as one of the ‘noblest men of the world’ and the UN recognised him as one of the most outstanding people of 20th century.
A lot of us may not be aware of existence of this noble man: Shri Palam Kalyanasundaram
Every month in his 30 year experience (service as a Librarian), he donated his entire salary to help the needy. He worked as a waiter in a hotel to meet his needs. He even donated his entire pension amount of over ₹ 10 lakhs to the needy.
He is the first person in the world to spend the entire earnings for a social cause. In recognition to his service, the American Govt honoured him with the ‘Man of the Millennium’ award. He received a sum of Rs 30 Crs as part of this award which he distributed entirely too.
By-poll for Maharashtra assembly seat Pandharpur was held recently.
The region has been NCP stronghold & even the massive Modi wave had zero impact here.
For the bypoll, BJP fielded its candidate while from Maha Vikas Aghadi, a NCP candidate was fielded.
This means it was BJP vs NCP+SS+INC in a seat which is NCP stronghold.
So it was obvious that MVA wud hv won easily. Popular NCP leaders like Ajit Pawar campaigned here in full swing. Fadnavis meanwhile campaigned for BJP candidate.
Now, unexpected happened. BJP won the seat.
3 out of the 4 main parties of a state fight in a seat together, that too a seat that is stronghold of one of those parties. They cud hv easily polled 60% votes, but they end up losing to 4th party (BJP), which had negligible presence here.