The Nominations...

Mon Dec 18 18:31:39 2000
Name:Nikhil Shah
Email:nikhil_shah@india.com
Nomination:Amitabh Bachchan
Reason:Made TV watchin' at prime time a must for everyone across the country irrespective of cast, class and creed. Brought lot of dignity to what is otherwise a cheap money making greedy opportunistic show.

Mon Dec 18 18:35:28 2000
Name:G. SATHYANARAYANAN
Email:GSATHYA_2001@yahoo.com
Nomination:N.R.Narayanamurthy
Reason:He is the person who practises what he preaches. He is the inventor of "ethics in Business" and following value systems in all walks of life. I am really proud of him

Mon Dec 18 18:38:15 2000
Name:Srinivas Gudipati
Email:gsthanks@yahoo.com
Nomination:Chandra Babu Naidu
Reason:He has developed AP a lot and working hard to make things better.

Mon Dec 18 18:38:52 2000
Name:Milind Chutke
Email:msumil@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Atal Bihari
Reason:Buland Bharat Ki Buland Aawaz | Atal Vishwas Kuchh Alag Hi Baat || Kashmir Ho Ya Kargil Ya Phir Ho Rammandir | Atal Atal Hi Atal Hai Unaka Phir Kyu Ho Doosari Baat ||1|| Nirdhar Ho Apana Atal To | Kuchh Kar to Dhikhaya Hai || Is Sadi Ka hi nahi | Pure Itihas Ki Kahani Hai ||2|| Na tha Kabhi Bharat Itana Balwan | Na tha Kabhi Itana Himmatwn || Par Aapake ATAL baatone Kar dhikhaya woh sab Aasan ||3|| Atal raho apane bal par | Atal raho apane karma par || Atal raho Nirdharo par | Phir kaho Mera Desh Mahan ||Last|| Na

Mon Dec 18 18:41:38 2000
Name:sridhar pashya
Email:river_54@rediffmail.com
Nomination:KARNAM MALLESHWARI
Reason:She is the only person who provided some cover for a billion strong nation.

Mon Dec 18 18:41:59 2000
Name:Vineet
Email:vineetverma@sify.com
Nomination:Chandrababu Naidu
Reason:unemployed, educated uth will always pray him for the initiatives he has taken to make his state a dreamy destination for the IT industry.

Mon Dec 18 18:44:23 2000
Name:Viswanadh Kasinadhuni
Email:viswanadhk@yahoo.com
Nomination:Sachin Tendulkar
Reason:The Golden Man every Indian think about.

Mon Dec 18 18:47:24 2000
Name:Sanavulla
Email:sana_online@yahoo.com
Nomination:Sachin Tendulkar
Reason:he is only man in india..where we can tell to others about indians..

Mon Dec 18 18:51:07 2000
Name:Chakravarthy
Email:chakra_perumal@hotmail.com
Nomination:Dr.Abdul kalam
Reason:Father of 'Indian Nuclear Science". with his immense efforts in the area of Defence research and Nuclear programme.

Mon Dec 18 18:53:21 2000
Name:V. Yedhugirinath
Email:vygiri@rediffmail.com
Nomination:A.B. Vajpayee
Reason:The Iron Man of India after Sardar Patel, to lead India to the future with astute leadership, accomodating leader of NDA and a Stern Leader as far our so-called neighbours are concerned. The man with a vision, mission and illumination.

Mon Dec 18 18:54:30 2000
Name:Rose Paulose
Email:jmj_rose@yahoo.com
Nomination:Azim Premji
Reason:I have nominated him because he had the vision to single-handedly make Wipro not only one of the great Indian organisations but even to get it registered on Nasdaq.

Mon Dec 18 18:56:34 2000
Name:Abraham A
Email:a.abraham@mailcity.com
Nomination:Dev Anand
Reason:He is the greatest star, who completed 50 years as the Boss of Film production company. First in World.

Mon Dec 18 18:57:26 2000
Name:siddharth
Email:siddharth1981@usa.net
Nomination:MOHAMMED AZHARUDDIN
Reason:HAS RENDERED YEOMAN SERVICE TO INDIAN CRICKET.HAS BEEN WRONGLY IMPLICATED IN MATCH FIXING.

Mon Dec 18 19:01:26 2000
Name:prakashpm
Email:prakashpm@rediffmail.com
Nomination:a.b.vajpayee
Reason: though old his foresight and vision leads the country into a new millenium

Mon Dec 18 19:06:58 2000
Name:KUMAR.S
Email:kumar_sundareshan@rediffmail.com
Nomination:ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE
Reason:HE IS SEASONED,EXPERIENCED, COOLHEADED, APART FROM A POET.TILTED USA TOWARDS INDIA WITH CONSTANT HIGHLEVEL MEETINGS,MADE USA REALISE THE REALITY IN THE KASHMIR PROBLEM CONVINCINGLY WITH AMPLE PROOF.A VERY WARM AND ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME WAS ACCORDED THIS YEAR TO AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT AFTER A LAPSE OF ABOUT 20 YEARS.THUS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE 2 BIG DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES IMPROVED VASTLY.ALSO ATALJI TOOK paiNS TO MAKE USA UNDERSTAND PAKISTANS DUAL ROLES PLAYED IN KASHMIR AFFAIR.UNMINDFUL OF HIS KNEE PROBLEMS HE TRAVELLED A LOT TO ADDRESS THE UN MEMBERS.HE HAS A ABILITY TO HANDLE THE ALLIES WITH DIFFERENT IDEALS IN AN EFFICIENT MANNER AND WITHOUT ANY CONFRONTATION WITH THEM.:ESPECIALLY CUNNING AND CANTANKEROUS JAYALALITHA AND SHORT TEMPERED MAMATHAJI.IN SHORT HE IS A SELFLESS PERSONALITY,CLEANHANDS AND SOFT SPOKEN MAN.

Mon Dec 18 19:07:59 2000
Name:Venky Nalluri
Email:venky_nalluri@yahoo.com
Nomination:Karanam Malleswari
Reason:Olympic medal

/ Mon Dec 18 19:08:29 2000
Name:Sriram V Iyer
Email:sriramv_iyer@yahoo.com
Nomination:A.R.Rahman
Reason:Music director who made India visible and appreciated on the global music map.

Mon Dec 18 19:16:18 2000
Name:Sanjay Kothari
Email:sanju_kot@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Karnam Malleshwari
Reason:She is the only who had put her sincere efforts and won the most unbelievable medal for our country (though coming from a middle class family!)

Mon Dec 18 19:17:56 2000
Name:Manish Goyal
Email:mitumanish@yahoo.com
Nomination:Aishwarya Rai
Reason:Because she is the princess of millions.

Mon Dec 18 19:18:17 2000
Name:satya
Email:sranumanchi@rediffmail.com
Nomination:chandrababunaidu
Reason:he has developed the Information Technology and he is the good administrator and he is the best leader.

Mon Dec 18 19:20:31 2000
Name:LAKSHMINARASIMHAN KRISHNASWAMY
Email:narasimhanl@yahoo.com
Nomination:Atal Bihari Vajpayeeji
Reason:This is because he leads India with so many coalitions parties successfully.And also development and economy is at the best during this tenure of this PM rather than other PM's.

Mon Dec 18 19:21:49 2000
Name:G.A.Chandrasekaran
Email:gacsekar@yahoo.com
Nomination:Vishwanathan Anand
Reason:For putting India in the world of sports Map

Mon Dec 18 19:22:24 2000
Name:RAVI.C.PANDITH
Email:PANDITHRAVI@REDIFF.COM
Nomination:A.B.VAJPAYEE
Reason:I am confident that he is not only the man who will not only make every citizen of this country proud of our mother land but also ensure proper governance and ensure the country progrecess not only economical but also heritage of our nation would be never compromised upon and more over he is the most efficient and able leader of our times, who hopefully has brought end to a family rule to this country of ours, god bless him with better health and life, god bless my country. Ravi

Mon Dec 18 19:22:33 2000
Name:R.Balasundaram
Email:balasundaram@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Atal Bihari Vajpaye
Reason:But for him we will not be stable and moving economically and socially forward

Mon Dec 18 19:23:08 2000
Name:Somesh Yadav
Email:somesh@hlinkers.com
Nomination:Atal bihari Vajpayee
Reason:He has managed all allies and the sangh parivar very well providing stability to the country which was desperately required. Within the given limitations, he has performed extrememly well. Kudos to Mr. Prime Minister and great thanks to him for serving the nation and showing a new path

Mon Dec 18 19:25:10 2000
Name:anilpasra
Email:anilpasra@rediffmail.com
Nomination:sachin tendulkar
Reason:time and again he has proved that skill and hard work together do not need any substitute for recognition. It is for the persons without them, to try for useless things.

Mon Dec 18 19:25:44 2000
Name:javid
Email:rahaman_ma@hotmail.com
Nomination:AMITABH BACHCHAN
Reason:HE PROVES HOW TO FIGHT WITH FAILURES

Mon Dec 18 19:29:32 2000
Name:Nirmal
Email:nirmalkannan@hotmail.com
Nomination:Medha Patkar
Reason:She is the only person in India who for millions who lost their home I Vote for her because She is simply great

Mon Dec 18 19:30:59 2000
Name:Satish K
Email:satishkmys@rediffmail.com
Nomination:N R Narayana Murty and A P J Abdul Kalam
Reason:It is not the political how implemented the Technologies, It was seeded into this country by these two guy in there respectives.

Mon Dec 18 19:34:14 2000
Name:K.Srinivas Prasad
Email:ksprasad1712@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Amitabh Bachchan
Reason:For that Terrific 'In the Trenches Resolve',for a fighting comeback ,sweeping aside fake T.V Superstars,shutting the mouths of B grade Talk Show Hosts and showing that Indians too can fightback. 'lessons for the Cricket Team'

Mon Dec 18 19:37:51 2000
Name:K V Shetty
Email:kvshetty@usa.net
Nomination:Karnam Malleshwari
Reason:After all she sprayed some deoderant for the stink raised by our pampered cricketers.

Mon Dec 18 19:39:45 2000
Name:ritesh
Email:ritesh_248@rediff.com
Nomination:atal bihari vajpayee
Reason:he seems to be the only accceptable face in the indian political scenario. though his recent remarks on the ayodhya issue show that he is under pressure from the extremist from the party. but every human has some limitations. it is important that one should make the most of his resources. and atal bihari vajpayee has surely done that. bharat mata ki jai

Mon Dec 18 19:40:29 2000
Name:P.BALA HUSSAIN REDDY
Email:PBHREDDY@REDIFFMAIL.COM
Nomination:P.V NARASIMHA RAO
Reason:THE ONLY SUCCESFUL PM WHO WITHSTOOD IMMENSE PRESSURE BOTH FROM INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE PATRY, AND RULED 5 YEARS, DURING WHICH MOST OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL REFORMS WEREDONE SUCCESFULLY.

Mon Dec 18 19:42:26 2000
Name:umaettigi
Email:umaettigi@home.com
Nomination:Sri.Sri.Ravi Shanker
Reason:He is helping millions of people get better

Mon Dec 18 19:43:45 2000
Name:Saleem
Email:saleems123@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Amithabh Bachchan
Reason:He had a great deal of old fans but after KBC he has won a lot of younger fans and will last now in the heart of the future generations.keep up the good work

Mon Dec 18 19:43:52 2000
Name:subhashishdas
Email:archskdas@usa.net,getskdas@yahoo.com
Nomination:ab vajpayee
Reason: he has kept his postion even in trials and turbulations. he has taken right decesions in war and in peace. his statesmanship and answers to questions of oppositions were sensible

Mon Dec 18 19:45:56 2000
Name:Chellappan
Email:chellappank@yahoo.com
Nomination:Mr. L.K.Advani
Reason:He is a man of conviction.

Mon Dec 18 19:46:29 2000
Name:charlie
Email:charlie_n@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Reason:the only choice as of now. the best indian in a hundred years to come and gone.

Mon Dec 18 19:49:34 2000
Name:Vishal Gadani
Email:bond_jamesbond@hotmail.com
Nomination:S. Ganguly
Reason:He has worked very hard this year to come up, and as everybody knows "HARD WORK ALWAYS WORKS HARD"... now he is captain of the indian cricket team. He scored a hell lot of runs this year including appro. 11-12 centuries. In the world of corruption and match fixing, he managed to concentrate very well on his duty. In his captaincy, India is doing pretty good currently.

Mon Dec 18 19:50:37 2000
Name:bharath
Email:bharath3@yahoo.com
Nomination:Prime Minister A B Vajpayee
Reason:His forward vision for the country and successfully running his government despite heavy odds.

Mon Dec 18 19:52:15 2000
Name:Kannan Rangan
Email:KannanRangan@Hotmail.Com
Nomination:Vajpayee
Reason:If their happen to be one or two reasons i could mension it here.Overall he is present India's 'DESTINY'

Mon Dec 18 19:52:15 2000
Name:SHAMSHEER COTTAR
Email:sam_cottar@yahoo.com
Nomination:AMITABH BACHCHAN
Reason:HIS POPULARITY AND CHARISMA WILL NEVER EVER CEASE.

Mon Dec 18 19:53:08 2000
Name:Srinivas
Email:venky4u@hotmail.com
Nomination:ChandraBabu Naidu
Reason:For his able administration and for his zeal to bring a radical change in the socio-economic situation of India in general and AP in particular.

Mon Dec 18 19:54:59 2000
Name:avinash agrawal
Email:aviagrawal@usa.net
Nomination:A B Vajpyee
Reason:He allowed to conduct the nuclear test which proved the power of india in front of the world. He is a person who has great balance in all situation. He is the only person who can take india to a new heights.

Mon Dec 18 19:56:34 2000
Name:Anil Kumar Pagadala
Email:anilkp@mailcity.com
Nomination:Chandra Babu Naidu
Reason:Lots of achievements, more to come...

Mon Dec 18 19:56:48 2000
Name:nivedita
Email:nivedita_raghavan@rediffmail.com
Nomination:AB_VAJPAYEE
Reason:1- His orientation towards the country(kashmir) 2- His forward look in many aspects like ceasefire 3- not many reasons ofcourse but better among others.

Mon Dec 18 19:57:27 2000
Name:satish
Email:satishkm@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Reason:HE IS THE MAN WHO GAVE STABILITY TO INDIAN POLITY AND SENSE OF DIRECTION TO INDIAN ECONOMY INSPITE OF HIS UNSTABLE LEGS AND POLITICAL FLUIDITY

Mon Dec 18 19:59:47 2000
Name:mohi sarawgee
Email:mohisarawgee@rediffmail.com
Nomination:amitabh bachchan
Reason:even after such a big downslide that he suffered through ABCL he still managed to rise up and maintain his position with his great anchory in kbc. he has the will power to maintain his standard and would certainly be successful in his life. he is certainly to be chosen as the REDIFF INDIAN OF THE YEAR

Mon Dec 18 20:00:26 2000
Name:Abdul Hafeez
Email:findhafeez@yahoo.com
Nomination:Chandra Babu Naidu
Reason:He is the reason behind the fame of HYDERABAD(Cyberabad). IIIT, ISB, Hi Tech city, Fortune 500 companies have found hyderabad as their destination. ALL CMs follow him for his vision.

Mon Dec 18 20:00:47 2000
Name:Chandrakant
Email:bhatara5@hotmail.com
Nomination:Sri Sri Ravishankar
Reason:for his pioneering concept of Art of Living

Mon Dec 18 20:00:52 2000
Name:Kalyan Kothapalli
Email:kalyan.kothapalli@gs.com
Nomination:Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Reason:No doubt its ABVP (Atal Beehari VajPayee)... Malliswari is great, she brought us fame in sports and atletics but, on the whole, its vajpayee who brought India a face lift during the past two/three years...

Mon Dec 18 20:02:11 2000
Name:Anil Nair
Email:None@None.com
Nomination:Atal bihari Vajpayee
Reason:Looking at the other votes, It seems that people do not realize that Rediff Man of India is not a person who has done something only for a particular state but for the whole of India from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. Malleswari did a good job and so did Tendulkar but only in sports. While Chandrababu has been my favourite in Andhra But someone who has changed the meaning of being an Indian. I think the only person for this post is Atal bihari Vajpayee. God Bless India.

Mon Dec 18 20:07:12 2000
Name:Kamal Kant Sharma
Email:kamalkantsharma@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Karnam Malleswari
Reason:For a civilised society wars between states are fought on the sports field. She was the only Indian who won a medal at the Sydney Olympiad.

Mon Dec 18 20:12:20 2000
Name:Satish Parab.
Email:satish.parab@prudential.com
Nomination:Karnam Malleshwari
Reason:It's important to do something in life, which probably no other individual can do or will try to do. Because What She has achived probably no INDIAN will ever know or care about. And thats why she is best among the INDIANS all over the world.

Mon Dec 18 20:17:14 2000
Name:Ramesh SG
Email:ramesh_s_g@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Karnam Malleshwari
Reason:Given a choice of choosing a career in a country like India , one first think of a career where he/she can make his/her livelihood and by which he/she can make a luxurious / comfortable life. Given all these comforts and then asked to choose a career , one may think of * Becoming a politician to make more money in the name of serving people , * Becoming a film star with the help of god fathers and become a hearthrob with very little effort. * Trying becoming beauty queens ,and where they claim that they want to help the society and rather end up in becoming film stars ( and no need to say that make lot of money infact).. * Given the choice of becoming a sports person , most of us wants to become cricketers where they can get a lot(lots of popularity , lots of endorsements , lots of money of course ) witrh very little effort. * But very few people choose a career of a sportperson (we can count if they are females) even without the basic comforts when they start , and that too of beng a weight lifter which is very little known in India ( Forget about popularity and endorsements). Karnam Malleshwari is among one few athlete and a rare personality , who has made India to be figured in the list of Olympic medals. So undoubtedly she is the rediff indian of the year.

Mon Dec 18 20:18:21 2000
Name:Sathya
Email:cssathya@hotmail.com
Nomination:Karnam Malleshwari
Reason:As many before me have summarized, she is the only one who has made India proud in the Olympics. It is sad to see that a country with a billion people looks like it has only one person with tenacity and resolution.

Mon Dec 18 20:22:03 2000
Name:Arthi Krishnamoorthy
Email:arthimd@hotmail.com
Nomination:Narayan Murthy
Reason:He has shown that one can be successful and popular inspite of being straight, refreshingly honest and with simple tastes.

Mon Dec 18 20:22:33 2000
Name:machismo
Email:rakesh_monnappa@rediffmail.com
Nomination:sachin tendulkar
Reason:he is the best,and eligible

Mon Dec 18 20:27:03 2000
Name:kalam basha
Email:kalamind@rediff.com
Nomination:chandra babu
Reason:he is our cm ilike him very becuse he inspect unexpectdely to the office that's why i like him yery much.

Mon Dec 18 20:29:49 2000
Name:l melwyn
Email:lmelwyn@rediff.com
Nomination:medha patkar
Reason:lone lady fighting for a environmental cause.With a bureacracy & governmental set acting against her and the tribal populace

Mon Dec 18 20:33:18 2000
Name:Pushpa Srinivasan
Email:pushpa_s@yahoo.com
Nomination:Varsha Bhosle
Reason:Writes articles with hard-hitting facts.

Mon Dec 18 20:33:45 2000
Name:Mahesh Bhanot
Email:mbhanot@vsnl.com
Nomination:Shri. Atal bihari Vajpayee
Reason:A proud of India. Successfully keeping the flock together in a berserk zoo with his balanced approach and showering the best humour in and out of parliament.He broght India to limelite with his thunderous roaring. He is able to tame the most furious animal of the world.

Mon Dec 18 20:34:16 2000
Name:Suresh.R.V.
Email:ind_suri@yahoo.com
Nomination:Atal bihari Vajpayee
Reason:he has been the force to rekon with and has guided India to a new high in the eyes of other countries..

Mon Dec 18 20:37:00 2000
Name:shyam
Email:shyamkashyap01@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Atalji
Reason:GReat Indian with High sprits in Indianization

Mon Dec 18 20:41:19 2000
Name:Jignesh Shah
Email:jigu_2000@usa.net
Nomination:Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Reason:He is the real leader that the nation currently has. He took some good and bold decision, but due to the indian politics some of the decision he had to roll back. Not to forget his efforts to improve the relationship with India. That was the event of the year.

Mon Dec 18 20:46:34 2000
Name:lakshmi prabha
Email:lp_g@hotmail.com
Nomination:Karnam Malleshwari
Reason:Woman of substance, who showed to India that they are capable of winning medals at the olympics. A bronze although .. is as good as gold. Deserve to be rediff indian of the year

Mon Dec 18 20:50:44 2000
Name:karthikraj
Email:amma_adimai@rediffmail.com
Nomination:karnam malleshwari
Reason:for her that made india to hold a place in the medal of olympics at sydney.

Mon Dec 18 20:51:30 2000
Name:vijay c.konduru
Email:vij_cyberabad@rediffmail.com
Nomination:sourav ganguly
Reason:the elegant southpaw handles the beleaguered team so well which even the little master and sunny couln`t do.isn`t that great??

Mon Dec 18 20:51:39 2000
Name:tarun
Email:tarunmahajan@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Amitabh Bachan
Reason:He is the one who has overcome all odds and shown what super stardom means.

Mon Dec 18 20:55:13 2000
Name:vijay
Email:vijayakumar_sr@rediffmail.com
Nomination:Rajinikanth
Reason:Super star of India

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