Historian who won the Infosys prize
The Infosys Science Foundation is a not-for-profit trust set up by Infosys Technologies in February 2009 to promote research in sciences in India. Under the aegis of the foundation, Infosys will honour outstanding contributions and achievements by Indians across various sciences. The annual award for each category is Rs. 50 lakh.
A co-winner of the Infosys Prize in Social Sciences: History, this year is the Amritsar-born Upinder Singh, an outstanding historian of ancient and early medieval India. She was selected by a jury headed by the Nobel Laureate Prof. Amartya Sen. Her scholarship and dedication to her students is well know, even then, I was surprised at the work that she has accomplished and the academic recognition that she has got.
YPS get-together
The Aitchisonian Yadavindrian Old Students’ Association (AYOSA), ably led in Chandigarh by Jaspal Sekhon, has been making valiant efforts to get the old boys and girls of the school together. We meet this Saturday, in the evening at North Park. There will be a significant presence from by class—Gurpreet Bhattal, Rajbirinder Chahal, Tina and Sunil Jain, Birinder Gill, we all live in Chandigarh. What were we like in 1970? The old class picture is really interesting…