Distinguished Alumnus Award conferred to Sri. Madhu Pandit Dasa, Chairman the Akshaya Patra Foundation & President, ISKCON – Bangalore by IIT Mumbai.
Mumbai/ Bangalore, March 10, 2010: The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, on its Foundation day, bestowed the Distinguished Alumnus Award 2010 to Sriman Madhu Pandit Dasa (a.k.a Madhusudan Sivasankar), Founder Chairman, the Akshaya Patra Foundation and President of ISKCON – Bangalore.
The institute recognised and honoured Sri Madhu Pandit Dasa for “his contribution to humanitarian services and organic farming”, said the citation. This is the highest honour the Institute bestows on the Foundation Day. The institute honours five alumni every year and the others who received the Distinguished Alumnus awards this year along with Madhu Pandit Das are Dr Nitish Thakor, Professor, John Hopkins University, R.Chandra Shekhar, IAS, Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Government of India, Adil Zaimulbhai, Managing Director, Mckinsey India and Colin H Gonslaves, Founder, India Centre for Human Rights and Law.
As a pre-degree student, he was selected by the highly reputed National Talent Search program of the country. He completed his B.Tech in Civil Engineering from IIT-Mumbai in the year 1981. Having found the path that answered his quest for the Absolute Truth, right after his days in IIT-Bombay, Madhu Pandit Dasa dedicated his life to serving the mission of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. He has nearly three decades of self less work behind him.
He has demonstrated ability in building organizations of excellence in the non-profit sector and is held in high esteem for his contribution to the society, in humanitarian, cultural and spiritual spheres. He has been instrumental in conceiving and implementing many social initiatives that have, are and will change the lives of million of people in this country. Besides impacting the social sector, his innovative presentation of utilizing the mesmerizing technological medium has rekindled and re-energized the interests in our rich Indian culture.
He designed and built one of the most popular cultural centers, ISKCON Sri Radha Krishna temple in Bangalore, which was inaugurated in 1997 by the then President of India. The successful completion of this project was nothing but the result of applying his training in IIT on a foundation of spiritual maturity for a selfless cause.
Sri. Madhu Pandit Dasa said, “I am very humbled and honored on being conferred the Distinguished Alumnus Award on the 51st Foundation Day of IIT Mumbai. This recognition is considered by me to be the blessings my worshippable Lord Sri Krishna and the blessings of the millions of children we feed in Akshaya Patra.”
IIT Bombay celebrated its 51st Foundation Day with Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Director, Prof M Barma, as Chief Guest.
Wow great!!!!!!!!!
U R Realy Great………………………….
Yes, while such wonderful services are taking place in Iskcon Bangalore
and are being HONOURED by the general public the OPPOSITE is taking
place in Iskcon Philadelphia. And The GBC caretakers appointed to maintain Iskcon spiritual standards as instructed by HDG ACBSP are now
thinking that they some kind of karmi goverment busy planning and
creating many ministries and appointing so many so called ministers
to flatter their humongous ego. Todate have they taken any action to
arrest the nonsense that is taking place in Iskcon Philadelphia. The
GBC caretakers have a ministry called the ministry of justice. The
sheriff from this ministry must have rode off into the sunset and
i guess must be still riding admiring the beautiful sunset thinking
” Aaah! This is what life is all about.” The President or Chairman
of the Caretaker GBC after a hard days work thinking and planning
and planning and planning must have got tired and have gone sleep
and must be still busy sleeping ZZZZzzzzzzzzzz. Sigh !
One can see the difference between what is GENUINE and what
is IMITATION and it is very glaring.
Wake up Iskcon devotees of the world. It is time to put things
right to those things which are wrong in Iskcon. This Krsna Conscious movement belongs to The Supreme Personality of Godhead the sweet Lord
Sri Govinda and you are all His servants. Follow HDG ACBSP advise
and instructions if one wants to go back home back to Godhead or
enjoy your stay in this ocean of nescience. Its each one’s individual
choice. Sri Krsna has given you the FREE WILL and INTELLIGENCE.
Hare Krsna.
This is really great news , i have been donating to akshayapatra foundation from past few years. The vision inspire me to be motivated in social services. madhu pandit dasa is really doing a great job , this is a feather added to his cap
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