I woke up rather early for a Sunday morning to participate in an online event to felicitate eminent Indian academics and educationists in the United States who were also recipients of the “Padma” or highest civilian awards conferred by the Government of India. The programme was scheduled for Saturday, April 24, 8:30 PM, Eastern Standard Time in the US, which translated to 5:30 AM in India.
One reason I made the effort was that some of the awardees were personally known to me. But another motivation was the attractive and relevant title of the event, “Academic institutions for a new India: The role of Indian-American academics.”