Gandhiana-20: The march towards Truth

In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred etc. naturally give way; for otherwise, Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed by passions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth. A successful search for Truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.

- An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatmaji

Honours and Awards-5: Chennai-born Scientist Honored

Hasan Suroor writes in The Hindu of March 27, 2010: "Chennai-born Shankar Balasubramanian of Cambridge University has been named Innovator of the Year by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Britain's leading agency for academic research and training in non-clinical life sciences.

He has been awarded 10,000 Pounds in recognition of his work on Solexa sequencing, the high speed genome sequencing technology. The award, now in its second year, is meant to encourage research that has practical impact on quality of life.

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Prof.Balasubramanian, whose parents moved to Britain a year after he was born, graduated in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and went on to do a PhD. He worked with David Klenerman of the department of chemistry, to invent low-cost and high-speed genome sequencing technology.

Excerpt from The Hindu, Trichy, March 27, 2010.

For further details from BBSRC Websiste:
http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/media/releases/2010/100319-dna-sequencing-pioneer-innovator.aspx

Grateful thanks to Hasan Suroor, The Hindu and BBSRC.