Indian Shuttler PV Sindhu
PV Sindhu additionally urged ladies to consider in themselves and give attention to no matter they need to obtain in life.
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- Last Updated: November 20, 2021, 23:31 IST
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Double Olympics medallist PV Sindhu on Saturday mentioned the 5 years between her silver and gold medal successes in Rio and Tokyo Olympics summits had been ‘crucial’ for her as her psychological facet took her the place she was at this time, and harassed on chasing one’s goals to realize the aim. The famed shuttler additionally urged ladies to consider in themselves and give attention to no matter they need to obtain in life.
“After playing in (Rio) Olympics, I had five years of gap and 2021 there is another Olympics (in Tokyo)..I think those five years were very crucial for me and the mental aspect took me to where I am today, because you always follow your dreams and that is very important in life.. you have to give up on some things, but I think at the end of the day, those things do not matter when you achieve your goal”, she mentioned. Sindhu was addressing graduates on the 58th convocation of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras right here, held by digital mode.
Sindhu had ensured a successive podium end within the Tokyo Olympics this yr, successful a bronze and turning into the primary Indian lady to win two Olympic medals. On ladies empowerment, she mentioned it was “something we all speak.”
“But yeah I think we have to be proud of ourselves and we are not less in anything.. if you see in sport, education, business and in every aspect, women are doing well”, she mentioned “As a woman, I am telling you we can achieve anything in life. coming to this stage, I just say one thing, that we can achieve anything in life, you just focus and give your best.. work hard and believe in hope”, Sindhu, additionally a recipient of Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna and the Padma Bhushan awards, mentioned.
Congratulating the graduates and their dad and mom, she mentioned, “You have achieved a lot. You have to keep learning a lot more in life. This is just not the end. You need to learn different things and try out different things. You should not stop only with one thing, you learn a lot more”, she mentioned IIT-M Director, Professor Bhaskar Ramamurthi mentioned the institute continues to draw substantial funding for its analysis and consultancy actions from the Government of India and the business.
“In 2020-21, the institute received sanction for 179 Ministry sponsored projects worth Rs 359.25 crore and 533 consultancy and industry sponsored research projects amounting to Rs 230.09 crore”, he mentioned.
Ramamurthi mentioned that regardless of the covid-19 pandemic, IIT-M maintained its progress momentum in attracting funding for analysis from each authorities and business. The progress within the business was significantly encouraging and heartwarming as IIT Madras was broadly perceived to be the chief in analysis collaboration with business, he mentioned. Meanwhile, 1,962 college students acquired the levels which embody the best variety of PhDs awarded in an instructional yr — 392 which incorporates PhDs, joint diploma PhDs with international establishments and twin diploma PhDs.
Sumanth R Hegde bagged the President of India prize whereas E Santhosh Kumar was awarded the V Srinivasan Memorial Prize. The Dr Shankar Dayal Sharma prize was offered to Guhan Narayanan whereas Mayur Vikas Joshi was awarded the Governor’s Prize.
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