Noble Prize winners from India

Read an article on Slashdot today about a Noble Prize laureate - Abdus Salam from Pakistan. He was given the Noble Prize for his work on the Higgs Bosom particle, which was discovered recently.

Abdus Salam has passed away, and unlike any other Noble Peace Prize laureate, he has not enjoyed the fame and respect in his country - Pakistan. The reason being he belongs to the Ahmadiyyah sect of Islam. His name is shunned from books, literature and speaking words of  fame for him is akin to blasphemy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/08/higgs-boson-pakistan-scientist

This intrigued me to find out how many Noble Prize laureates were from India. And here is the list from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_laureates_of_India

1902	Ronald Ross	Medicine	Foreign citizens born in India
1907	Rudyard Kipling	Literature	Foreign citizens born in India
1913	Rabindranath Tagore	Literature	Citizen of British India
1930	C.V. Raman	Physics	Citizen of British India
1968	Har Gobind Khorana	Medicine	Foreign citizens of Indian origin
1979	Mother Teresa	Peace	Citizen of India
1983	Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar	Physics	Foreign citizens of Indian origin
1998	Amartya Sen	Economic Sciences	Citizen of India
2009	Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	Chemistry	Foreign citizens of Indian origin

Jame Anwar, Cairo, Egypt

Pics from my recent trip to the land of the Fatimi Cairo. These are the pics of Al Masjid Jame ul Anwar taken during night and early morning.

The drama called Indian Olympics Tennis Contingent

So right when the whole world is ready to get its adrenaline pumping with the upcoming olympics, to support their respective countries for this once in 4 year bonanza, Indian people are enjoying the drama been enacted by the AITA ( All India Tennis Association) and of course the players.

Here goes it:
AITA decided to pair Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi for Men's double, but they didnt know that they werent talking with each other and had issues. Issues that couldnt be solved, issues that came before the country. They just couldnt overcome their bloated egos. So finally they decided to not to play together.

Now it gets interesting. The AITA decided to be a little biased with Bhupathi and paired him up with India's number three player - Rohan Bopanna. Bopanna has some grand-slam experience is a much better players than the #4 playes - Vishnu Vardhan, who was paired with Leander Paes. Now they made Bhupathi happy but the other stalwart of Indian Tennis - Leander Paes wasnt.

Even more interesting, so what do they do now, they used Sania Mirza ( India's #1 Female Tennis Player) as a bait to satisfy the disgruntled Paes. So the drama gets more spicier. Sania wrote a scathing letter to the AITA describing how she felt - discriminated, dis-respected blah blah. She was write !!

So yes, when every one is busy prepping for the olympics, trying to win Golds for their countries we are enjoying this pot-purri that our stars are cooking :)