From: Shwetha Agarwal <sweetnlo@grove.ufl.EDU>

Date sent: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 00:49:58 -0500

Person Nominated: Leander Paes

Reasons: dhis is dhee man!

From: Kavitha Pasem Reddy<yikes@grove.ufl.edu>

Date sent: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 00:47:35 -0500

Person Nominated: Leander Paes

Reasons: He is the man! Good job leander Peas.

From: Praveen Gupta <praveen_gupta@usa.racal.com>

Date sent: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 00:46:26 -0500

Person Nominated: Leander Paes

Reasons: I nominate Leander Peas, because for who he is!

From: chitra vasudevan<cvasudev@ucet.ufl.edu>

Date sent: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 00:44:47 -0500

Person Nominated: Leander Paes

Reasons: I nominate him for his good job at the olympics this year! You go boy!

From: Dr.Sat.Dev.Batish@professionals.com <batishs@rockvax.rockefeller.edu>

Date sent: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 14:47:44 -0800 (PST)

Person Nominated: T N Seshan

Reasons: For his honesty, dynism, patriotism and very practical, for doing such great job, by holding free and fair elections in India, in Uttar Pradesh an making people realise the importance and responsibilities of Election Commissioner

From: anitha.rumalla@professionals.com <arumalla@worldnet.att.net>

Date sent: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 11:14:13 -0800 (PST)

Person Nominated: Leander Paes

Reasons: He has done India proud! He is the man y'all!

From: K.Pieush.Saktawat@professionals.com <saktawat@alpha.fdu.edu>

Date sent: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 10:59:57 -0800 (PST)

Person Nominated: T N Seshan

Reasons: I still remember the famous saying which used to be frequently told to me by my school principal that "never think what the country can do for you but always think that what you can do for your country". And according to me this man has fully realized his duties towards his country and handled the politicians on one hand and the bureaucrats on the other intelligently and performed his duties without any fear or favor. No doubt he faced with lot of enemity and critism from lot of quarters but he biggest plsu point with this man is that he is not a politician and thus does not care about anything and anybody in the performance of his duties. I still remember the critism he faced on the issue of I-Cards but ultimately the introduction of I-cards in the country has given way for numerous Mal-practises that used to take place during the election process.

I sincerely hope that the country will have more of such personalities in the near future who can serve as models for the coming generation and realise them about their duties towards their nation as a whole. I salute to such personalities as Mr T N Seshan.

From: Arun@professionals.com <arung@msn.com>

Date sent: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:48:52 -0800 (PST)

Person Nominated: Sukh Ram

Reasons: For being the most honest Swindler that Indian Politics have seen.

From: Prashanth.Lagisetty@professionals.com <lagisett@ponder.csci.unt.edu>

Date sent: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 19:45:26 -0800 (PST)

Person Nominated: Leander Paes

Reasons: Obviously, he revealed that nothing is impossible.

From: R.Srinivas.Vignesh@professionals.com <vignesh@usa.net>

Date sent: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 20:18:07 -0800 (PST)

Person Nominated: T N Seshan

Reasons: Well, Seshan may be a bit arrogant, may be controversial, but looking back at what he has done to Indian politics and the voter, he is definitely my Man of the Year.

He may have brought fear in the minds of politicians, made a true attempt to cleanse the political system of India, conducted free & fair elections in the troubled states, but above all he brought about adistinctive awareness in the minds of the people. He has placed the importance of the elections in he mind of an India voter.

Politicians, Sportsmen, even social service rendering people acquire fame quite easily but Seshan has been the only official who has een capable of the same. This, along with the fact he has been awarded various International awards, I believe, is vindicative of my nomination.

From: Savir@professionals.com <savir@corus.com>

Date sent: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 02:00:10 -0800 (PST)

Person Nominated: P V Narasihma Rao

Reasons: Most conteraversial ex. Prime Minister. Man in the news all the time. Starting from hawala, Bribe and chating cases.

From: Senthilkumaran@professionals.com

Date sent: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 05:54:29 -0800 (PST)

Person Nominated: Rajnikanth

Reasons: I would like to nominate Rajnikanth for the rediff person of the year. Every Tamilian would feelt hat same for the tremendous job he did in bringing about the change in the political scenery of Tamilnadu for good.

From: Nishith.Shah@professionals.com <shah@zip.sbi.com>

Date sent: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 09:52:10 -0800 (PST)

Person Nominated: Arundhati Ghose

Reasons: To take a stand agaisnt the countries who wanted to supress India for CTBT. She showed that India is not a puppet of the western world and wil only go for the right things and will not bend under pressure.

She deserves it more than those corrupt politician, non-practical Sheshan, and a sports captain (who is winning because of combine effort of other players)

From: srinivas padmanabhuni <srinivas@cs.ualberta.ca>

Date sent: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 15:06:31 -0500

Person Nominated: Leander Paes

Reasons: I think he has truly been a cultural icon and ambassador of India at the Olympics. It was definitely the proudest moment in the history of Indian sports when the Indian tricolor was hoisted in Atlanta.

From: Natesh Meenakshisundaram

Date sent: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 19:37:47 -0500

Person Nominated: Rajnikanth

Reasons: I liked the way Rajnikanth brought about a change in the Tamilnadu political scene bringing the downfall of Jayalalitha.

From: Vijayakumar Venugopal

Date sent: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 19:40:36 -0500

Person Nominated: Rajnikanth

Reasons: I feel that the right person to win the award would be Rajnikanth as he saved Tamilnadu from the jaws of Jayalalitha.

From: K.Sudhakar.Rao@professionals.com <sudha@wipro.com>

Date sent: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 10:37:10 -0800 (PST)

Person Nominated: T N Sheshan

Reasons: for the successfull completion of general elections nad assembly elections in Kashmir and UP Less voilence during elections has been witnessed.

From: Phani.Tej.Adidam@professionals.com <padidam@cwis.unomaha.edu>

Date sent: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 11:45:30 -0800 (PST)

Person Nominated: Atal Behari Vajpayee

Reasons: The most intellectual politician in the country.

From: arun@professionals.com <burp@cyberspace.org>

Date sent: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 12:35:45 -0800 (PST)

Person Nominated: Martina Hingis

Reasons: Martina's performance in the US open is alone enough for this nomination.

I don't think this nomination has got to be an Indian.

From: Arun.Gnanagurudasan@professionals.com <garun1@uic.edu>

Date sent: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 12:52:51 -0800 (PST)

Person Nominated: Arundhati Ghose

Reasons: Arundhati Ghose seems to be the coolest choice from the outside-India perspective -- representing India in nuking the nuclear countries, although I am not astute enough to evaluate the impact it has made on the world.

From: Mrinal.Kumar.Singh@professionals.com <Msingh_DSS.Developers@state.ma.us>

Date sent: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 15:27:59 -0800 (PST)

Person Nominated: Chief Justice A M Ahmedi

Reasons: He has ensured his place in History by bringing back the respect and faith of the people in the judiciary. Judicial Activism was necessary in the current scenario where there has been rampant corruption and abuse of poewr by the high and mighty along with criminalization of politics. He has been to the judiciary what Mr Seshan was to the Election Commission but wihtout the fanfare and self aggrandizement. He has been a low key but at the same time the most important role in what we see happening today in our judicial system. He has withstood the pressures of the high and mighty and gone ahead with a cleansing of our politicians who once considered themselves above the law.

From: Sundeep Krishan Sood <sood0002@gold.tc.umn.edu>

Date sent: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 00:40:57 -0500 (PST)

Person Nominated: Atal Behari Vajpayee

Reasons: He symbolized change, and lent character to the dwindling aura of an Indian.

From: Jhon Kuzhikannil <kuzhikan@umr.edu>

Date sent: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 02:56:16 -0500 (PST)

Person Nominated: Leander Paes

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