KLN Award and Google: A BIG THANK YOU to ALL my Friends

KLN Award and Google:  A BIG THANK YOU to ALL my Friends

Upon receipt of information about my getting the KLN Award for the services to the elderly, I got drenched fully in a rain of congratulatory messages from various quarters – sss-global, ex-idl, Bhavana-lucknow, aisccon, ISU3A, Lis-Forum and other groups; from my friends in FaceBook, Twitter, GPlus, LinkedIn etc. A very large number of my friends have been very generous in inflating my Ego. Frankly, much against my nature, I was in Cloud Nine, hesitating to climb down! As it is difficult, if not impossible, for me to individually acknowledge each well wisher, I am choosing to send a million thanks via this missive. I have made a table of all those to whom thanks are due. If I have missed some, it is just a slip, pardon me.

Sri Kanuri Manohar	Sri G Srinivasan CBE	Sri SV Chalapathy
Sri RV Rao IOCL	Sri Subramananian Srinivasan	Prof V Ramamurti
Sri Kalluri Subba Rao	Sri M Puparelia	Sr gyanendra Khare
Sri Y Markandeyulu	Sri DN Chapke	Sri P Ramachandran
Sri M Hanumantha Rao	Sri Raghavan Poova	Sri Govinfdarajan
Smt Gowri Jayaram	Sri Prabhakar Chhatre	Sri VRV Rao
Sri A Suryanarayana	Sri Khanapur Krishna Rao	Justice TNC Rangarajan
Sri Venkatramani Ramana	Sri T Koteswar Rao	Sri KV Shastry
Sri Vijaya Anand	Sri IM Bhalla	Smt Parveen Ansar
Smt Susheela	Sri RN Mital	Sri M Ruparelia
Sri Nityanandam	Sri VK Shukla	Sri Sailesh Mishra
Smt Jayanti	Sri Pattabhraman	Dr T Thomas
Sri Lohitakshan	Sri Vitthal Rao Lakaraju	Sri R Bashyam
Sri Annavajla Sarma	Sri Ramesh Bukkapatnam	Sri Mumtaz Khan
Sri NV Murthy	Sri Mandagiri Rangaswamy	Sri V Sriram
Sri RK Chitrapu	Sri Raman Bharadwaj	Wing Cmdr Bharat Bhushan
Sri AP Singh	Sri J Nandakumar	Sri C Madhusudhana Rao
Dr Balambal	Sri K Paarthasarathy	Sri Jagannath Madhavan
Sri Dinesh Babel	Sri KA Raju	Sri IM Desai
Sri Mohan Surya	Sri AK Malhotra	Sri K Rajasekaran
Sri Vellimedu Sashadri	Smt Tandra Mukerji	Sri IVLN Chary
Sri Gurusamy Balasubramanian	Sri P Chhatre	Smt Shyamala
Sri Badrinarayana Miriyala	Sri RV Rao	Dr A Lakshmana Moorthy
Sri Haneefa Rawuther	Sri Chandwaskar	Sri Mudigonda Lingaamurthy
Smt Anureeta Saigal	Smt Sobha	Smt Kamakshi Hatti
Sri Harikishan	Sri Vasudevamurthy	Sri NV Satyanarayana
Sri Daljit Singh Grewal	IndLibs Group	Sri Narasimha Rao (IDL)
Dr Sugan Bhatia	Sri Bhagwanulu	Prof Varalakshmi
I have put Sri K Manohar as the first person to thank, not just for the award itself;  but also because of his innovative Twittering techniques, I have seen hundreds of tweets about this ward.

Many friends have been asking for details about KLN Award. Complete details are given in http://kanuri.org/ The KLN Award seeks to recognize individuals, social catalysts, who have advanced our understanding and awareness of issues and challenges affecting elders, thereby enhancing the dignity, care, and well-being of elders in a changing society. The KLN Award will be given up to four times a year. The awardee receives a certificate and a cheque for Rs. 200,000.  The name of the first awardee (Dr Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy) was announced on June 5^th 2014. It will be given on June 15, the United Nations’ World Elder Abuse Awareness day.  The website answers all doubts through an FAQ. This award is not based on any application from individuals and subsequent selection. You cannot send nominations or recommendations. The KLN Award Committee searches, sifts, selects and reaches out to the suitable candidate concerned on its own.

All along I have taken pride in searching Google for answering my own and others queries and consider myself as a semi-expert.  Deccan Chronicle called me The Internet Hunter sometime ago. For a change, KLN Award Committee googled and reached me as a suitable person for the award!. Sri Manohar Kanuri of kanuri.org met me personally some months ago and thereafter we exchanged many email messages and telephone calls.  Therefore I am happy about the role played by Google and the Internet in general – I am pleased that I have left enough footprints to trace me down.