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A Precious Telegram of 1946 !!!. Copy Presented to Obama by Modi ….

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi presenting a reproduction of telegram sent by U.S. to the Indian Constituent Assembly in 1946 to U.S. President Barack Obama, at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Sunday.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi presenting a reproduction of telegram sent by U.S. to the Indian Constituent Assembly in 1946 to U.S. President Barack Obama, at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Sunday.

The telegram was sent by the then Acting Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, to Sachchidananda Sinha, provisional Chairman of the Constituent Assembly.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday gifted President Barack Obama a piece of India-U.S. history, a copy of the first telegram from the United States to India’s Constituent Assembly in 1946.

The telegram was sent by the then Acting Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, to Sachchidananda Sinha, provisional Chairman of the Constituent Assembly. Mr. Modi presented the copy after he received Mr. Obama at Hyderabad House.

The copy was the reproduction of the telegram read out at the inaugural sitting of the Constituent Assembly on December 9, 1946.

In the telegram, Acheson said: “With the approach of December 9, I extend to you as provisional Chairman of the Constituent Assembly and through you to the Indian people the sincere good wishes of the United States Government … and of the people of United States for a successful conclusion of the great task you are about to undertake. India has a great contribution to make to the peace, stability and cultural advancement of mankind and your deliberations will be watched with deep interest and hope by freedom-loving people throughout the entire world.”

SOURCE::::www.the hindu.com

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Jan 26 2015

Obama meets Indian-American Spelling bee champs !!!

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  • US President Barack Obama meets Spelling Bee co-champions Sriram Hathway and Ansun Sujoe at the Oval Office in the White House in Washington on Monday.
    PTI  US President Barack Obama meets Spelling Bee co-champions Sriram Hathway and Ansun Sujoe at the Oval Office in the White House in Washington on Monday.
  • Indian American Spelling Bee co-champions Sriram Hathway from New York and Ansun Sujoe from Texas outside the White House after meeting US President Barack Obama in the Oval Office on Monday.
    PTI Indian American Spelling Bee co-champions Sriram Hathway from New York and Ansun Sujoe from Texas outside the White House after meeting US President Barack Obama in the Oval Office on Monday.
  • In this May 29, 2014 file photo, Ansun Sujoe, 13, ( left) of Fort Worth, Texas, and Sriram Hathwar, 14, of Painted Post, N.Y., raise the championship trophy after being named co-champions of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, in Oxon Hill, Md.
    AP In this May 29, 2014 file photo, Ansun Sujoe, 13, ( left) of Fort Worth, Texas, and Sriram Hathwar, 14, of Painted Post, N.Y., raise the championship trophy after being named co-champions of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, in Oxon Hill, Md.

The two co-champions were accompanied by their proud parents in their interaction with Obama, who had invited them to the White House

US President Barack Obama might be one of the world’s most powerful man but he is no spelling champion as he failed to spell two words correctly given to him by this year’s Indian—American co—champions of the prestigious Spelling Bee contest.

“He (the President) is very humble. I think he (Obama) is appropriate for the job,” Sriram Hathway from New York told PTI in an interview, moments after he and co—champion of Scripps National Spelling Bee Ansun Sujoe from Texas met the US President at his Oval Office yesterday.

The two co-champions were accompanied by their proud parents in their interaction with Obama, who had invited them to the White House.

Soon after Sriram, 14, and Ansun, 13, were declared co-champions of this year’s Spelling Bee, Obama had tweeted, .

“Congrats to Ansun and Sriram, the incredible co-champs of the #ScrippsNationalSpellingBee. You make us all proud!“.

This was for the first time since 1962 that the annual spelling contest had ended in a tie.

“The President greeted us. He is very nice. He talked to us little bit. He gave us some advice. He also spelled a couple of words for us. Like the two words we misspelled —— corpsbruder and antigropelos. He did not spell them correctly.

But it was quite fun to hear it and to talk with the President and interact,” Ansun told PTI outside the White House after his memorable meeting with Obama.

During the spelling bee competition this year both Sriram and Ansun stumbled one time with the words “Corpsbruder (a close comrade)” and “Antigropelos (waterproof leggings)” respectively. And both passed on these words to Obama for spelling.

For the Spelling bee champions, this was not a surprise.

“He (tried) to spell those two words. We got to shake hands with him. He greeted us very humbly…very welcoming. It was an honour to meet him,” Sriram said.

Obama presented the two young Indian-Americans a book on Constitutional amendments in which he wrote: “Dream, Big Dreams.”

Keywords: Barack Obama, Indian-American Spelling bee champions, Spelling Bee contest

Source:::The Hindu.com

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