From The Hindu Archives, April 6, 1976: Indians honoured for distinguished services in U.S.

New York, April 5: The contributions made by Indians and Americans to science and world culture were noted at a meeting of the Association of Indians in America.

Among the Indians who were praised for their services rendered in the United States were Mr. C. George Sudarshan of Kerala, the physicist of international repute. Mr. Arthur Lall, former Indian Ambassador at the United Nations, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, the Sarod player who is running a school of music in Marin County California, and the 92-year-old dean of the Indian immigrants, Mr. Profulla Chandra Mukerji, an engineer, scholar and humanist.

The Americans honoured included Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, Director of Wheat Research and Production Programme, who developed the semi-dwarf high-yielding varieties that revolutionised wheat production in the Indian sub-continent, Mr. Robert F. Goheen, President emeritus Princeton University, at present co-chairman of the Indo-US Sub Commission on Education and Culture, Dr. Donald Harrington, founder member of the now defunct India League of America formed to boost India’s independence movement, and Dr. Margaret Mead, American authoress and distinguished anthropologist, who had delivered the Nehru Memorial Lecture in Delhi in 1973.