Our Meeting with the Hon’ble President of India HE Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Place: Bihar Govt. Hanger at Patna Airport Date: January 19, 2007 Time: 19:30 h Duration: 10 min. Aruna & I met HE Professor Dr APJ Abdul Kalam in a very relaxed and pleasant atmosphere for about 10 min. The Hon’ble president was extremely kind and allowed us to sit on the same sofa beside him at the same level and asked for a picture of us together with him to the Presidential Photographer. We are moved by his gesture. We are still fascinated by his kindness and his extraordinary charming personality. He is one the greatest scientists on this earth.
“Me (Dr. Hari Shankar Sharma-right) and My wife (Mrs. Aruna Sharma-middle) with HE-President of India, Dr. A.P.J.Kalam(left) in Global Bihar Meet, Patna on Jan 19,2007 The President asked in details about my research and co-operation at International level and suggested to do some collaboration with National Brain research Centre, Manesar. In this regard, He asked me to send some books, papers and other information to him on the presidential website through e.mail so that he can make contact with the Director of NBRC at Manesar regarding a possible collaboration with Swedish are eagerly waiting for some advice and communication from him.
In this regard, it is worth to mention that President from time to time communicates with me when we exchanged “New Years Greetings” from Sweden or USA. Those emails that have been received by me from the president himself are the priceless treasure for us. We are in communication with HE president since 2002. Currently, through Swedish diplomatic channel and Swedish Govt. we are working to invite the Hon’ble president to Sweden at his convenience.
Our Meeting with the Hon’ble CM Shri Nitish Kumar Place: CM residence, 1 Anne Marg, Patna 800001
Date: January 19, 2007
Time: 12:30 h
Duration: 7 min.
Aruna & I met the Hon’ble CM on the sidelines of Lunch meeting with delegates of Global Meet. The Hon’ble CM is a very soft spoken, simple and extremely intelligent person. When we told him that “today” our Bihar is proud on him and on the path of development due to your policies and able administration in such a short time, he only smiled and said: “this is a collective effects of my Government” with the help of law abiding citizens!
The CM also said that his main thrust to develop Bihar is to provide quality Education and Research in every sphere, thus development of new Institutions on the International line is our priority. We told him that Sir, please visit Sweden (as I have also invited him earlier to inaugurate my International Conference on GCNN in Uppsala, http://www.gcnpnr.org March 1-3, 2006) to see Swedish style of functioning of Education and healthcare Organization are entirely different from USA and UK, he told us to send relevant information to him so that he can have some input to take some decision. Regarding development of an International Quality of Medical research Centre on my own land in Dalmianagar as “Built & Transfer” to Bihar Government, we exchanged some positive ides about this. During our brief interaction, he also asked personal questions about our well being and promised to do a better organization of Global Bihar Meet 2nd time when Govt. Participation will be stronger. He also mentioned to us that the idea of this meet is not to have just investment, but to show the changing face of Bihar in good terms to the World. In this
The Dy CM is very kind to allow us for a photographic session in the lawns of Hotel Maurya.

The Hon’ble Dy. CM Shri Sushil Kumar Modi with Hari & Aruna at Maurya Hotel lawn, Patna

On a personal note, he noticed us from the dais that we are standing behind the audience and asked that why you were standing behind the audience? There were several vacant seats in the front row. You are most welcome to seat wherever you find place. This personal observation of Dy CM even sitting on the dais has really touched our emotional chord. This shows that our Dy CM is such a sensitive, kind and nice persons that we have seen by ourselves. We feel that our lovely state, Bihar is very secured under the guidance of Dy CM.

Our Meeting with the Hon’ble Minister Shri Ashwani Kumar Chaube

Place: CM residence, 1 Anne Marg, Patna
Date: January 19, 2007
Time: 13:00 h
Duration: 10 min.

We have good time at 1 Anne Marg during the lunch meeting where we met the Hon’ble Minister Shri Ashwani Chaube jee on the lawns. He is a very kind and polite person. He already recognized us from our Bio-Data sent to Bihar Global Meet and initiated discussion about future of Bihar. When we stated that we are here to show our education and Hospital functioning from Sweden because this is the “need of the hour” for Bihar. The Swedish system for healthcare and education is cheap, affordable and practical for our people of Bihar. He really moved by this and told us that he look forward to his visit to Sweden where he can see and discuss a lot more including the development of City and infrastructure for Bihar. The Hon’ble Minister has

research. The Hon’ble President listened us very patiently about our ambition in research and also made some kind suggestions.
During the Discussion, the president said to me that he never visited Sweden and thus I invited him to visit my hospital and University. On which we are working now. In March 2006, I reminded him that I invited you to inaugurate my congress, 3rd International Conference of the Global College on Neuroproetction and Neuroregeneration, Uppsala, March 1-3, 2006 that he remembers. At time I was informed from his office that the President can’t come to Sweden due to his time-constraints and thanks you for such invitation.
During our discussion, the Hon’ble president in lighter vein told me that you and I are both working in same field, i.e., we are scientists except our working fields are different. On this comment, we said that meeting high level scientists like you is just feeling to see “God” as we revered this profession (science) and you are the master of this in your field. When we told him that we realize your hard work at that time when there is almost non-existing facilities in our country, thus your work is utmost great and precious that many other people in this area who started work in good environment and with good facilities. The President readily accepted this with smile on his face.

At the end, the Hon’ble president stood up and shook hand with me and placed his both hands on Aruna’s crown and said “God Bless you”. This was our most emotional moments with HE President.

The meeting was ended to find ways of having scientific collaboration with Indian Institutes related to our field of work. As a follow up we have sent all the necessary details that the Hon’ble president asked me to send to him. We aspect the CM has achieved great success. He was so kind that he offered all his help to see him during the meet anytime, if we have anything further to say or we have any problem. This really makes us very emotional. We can say only that our CM is a Great Human Being and has very kind heart, a rare thing that is seen now-a days in politicians and administrators. Our State is firmly secured in the hand of our honest and hard working CM.

Hari & Aruna with the Hon’ble CM Shri Nitish Kumar at his Official residence We are now working as a follow-up to provide necessary feedback to our Hon’ble CM and to invite him to Sweden through Swedish Govt. so that his visit to Sweden (at his convenience) will be highly successful for the development of Bihar.
Our Meeting with the Hon’ble Deputy CM Shri Sushil Kumar Modi Place: Maurya Hotel
Date: January 20, 2007
Time: 13:30 h
Duration: 5 min.

During a lunch break on January 20, Aruna and I met the Hon’ble Dy CM for an interaction that lasted over 5 min. Interestingly the Dy CM recognized us during a brief chat at CM residence on January 19th. Aruna and I invited him to Sweden to see the Educational Institute and to visit the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education, a Swedish Govt. Organization that the Dy. CM has accepted kindly. He asked about number of Behari migrants in Sweden, but also mentioned that this doesn’t matter, as we need quality of Education and Infrastructure. The Dy CM is also very keen to change the educational standards of Bihar in a positive way.

very kind words to Aruna and said that if we get the support of “Bhabhi jee” then why not we can emulate the educational and health model of Sweden in Bihar and also to plan infrastructure according to Swedish urban style. Such ma personal note from the Hon’ble minister is amazing.

He was very generous to have photo session with us

The Hon’ble Minister Shri Ashwani Kumar Chaube with Aruna & Hari at CM Residence, Patna. Now we are working through Swedish Govt. channels to invite our Hon’ble dignitaries from Bihar Govt. to Sweden where we will have project presentation and we will arrange meetings with the Rector of Uppsala University, Directors of University Hospital apart from Members of parliament from Swedish Govt. Our plan is also to arrange a meeting with Respective miniseries of Swedish Govt., when our Hon’ble CM, Dy CM and Ministers of Bihar Govt. will undertake their visit to Sweden.

Let’s hope, to build a new Bihar with all modern facilities and good infrastructure in a professional and transparent way.
About the Authors: The author Dr.(Prof) Hari Shankar Sharma is professor of Neurobiology, Department of Surgical Sciences Apartment 28 Anesthesiology & Intensive Care Medicine University Hospital, Uppsala University He is also Chief/International CNS Injury Research Group,UU AND Editor in Chief, International J Neuroprotection & Neuroregeneration (IJNN, UK) Mrs. Aruna Sharma is wife of Dr. Hari Shankar Sharma and working for same dept in uppasala University, Sweden.