INDIAN LEADERS PRESENT TRACK AND FIELD AWARDS
DELHI — Sri Chinmoy was among the Indian leaders — who included Prime Minister Indira Gandhi — presenting the prizes to winners of the Asian Veterans Athletics Championships held here the weekend of March 19.
The three-day series of track and field competitions, held in Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, drew masters athletes from the length and breadth of Asia.
Sri Chinmoy presented the awards to the winners of the 20-kilometre walk and the 400-metre dash on the final day of the meet.
Published in Anahata Nada, Volume 10, Nos. 2-5, February–June 1983
U THANT PEACE AWARD GIVEN
The leader of The Peace Meditation at the United Nations, Sri Chinmoy, presented the annual U Thant Peace Award this year to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
The presentation was made March 19 during a ceremony on U Thant Island, in the East River.
Dr. Uner Kirdar, who accepted the award on behalf of UNDP, said: “You are granting us the biggest honour.” The award, he added, belongs to UNDP field workers and those “whom we are privileged to serve.”
In a subsequent letter to Sri Chinmoy, the head of UNDP, Bradford Morse, wrote: “This award ... gives us new inspiration, dedication and energy to serve in the best manner millions of human beings in poor countries ...”
Published in Anahata Nada, Volume 12, December 1984–March 1985
Published in the Venezuelan newspaper, CRITICA, 19 March 1987