Indian-American Vivek Murthy is US's youngest surgeon-general,
takes oath on GITA
At about the same time the death of a farmer in New Delhi brought the capital's attention on farm suicides, a young Indian-American was invoking with gratitude the Indian roots of his success in the United States: his agriculturist grandfather's resilience and sacrifice that led his parents emigration and his own remarkable achievement in this country.
"By any reasonable measure, I shouldn't be standing here. My father is the son of a farmer in rural India. He was supposed to have been a farmer, as was I," Vivek Murthy recalled to a gaggle of supporters gathered at a military base in Fort Myer after he was administered oath (on a Bhagavad Gita) on Wednesday by vice president Joe Biden as the 19th surgeon general of the United States, America's doctor-in-chief.
Clearly unaware of the tumult in India over the farmer suicide, Murthy then added, "But for my grandfather's insistence that his son get an education, even if that meant going into debt, we might have never left that village (Hallegere in Karnataka's Mandya district) to go out in the world and - as my grandfather also insisted - start fixing what needed fixing."
[Courtesy: The Times of India]
At about the same time the death of a farmer in New Delhi brought the capital's attention on farm suicides, a young Indian-American was invoking with gratitude the Indian roots of his success in the United States: his agriculturist grandfather's resilience and sacrifice that led his parents emigration and his own remarkable achievement in this country.
"By any reasonable measure, I shouldn't be standing here. My father is the son of a farmer in rural India. He was supposed to have been a farmer, as was I," Vivek Murthy recalled to a gaggle of supporters gathered at a military base in Fort Myer after he was administered oath (on a Bhagavad Gita) on Wednesday by vice president Joe Biden as the 19th surgeon general of the United States, America's doctor-in-chief.
Clearly unaware of the tumult in India over the farmer suicide, Murthy then added, "But for my grandfather's insistence that his son get an education, even if that meant going into debt, we might have never left that village (Hallegere in Karnataka's Mandya district) to go out in the world and - as my grandfather also insisted - start fixing what needed fixing."
[Courtesy: The Times of India]
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