At the very outset, I would like to extend my warm greetings to all the participants in this year's Stree Shakti Puruskar Ceremony and through you,
I would like to convey my felicitations to all the women of India on International Women's Day.
While Uma is my mother''s name, Puruskar and Liril are my elder
brother and sister and I have made the donation for setting up a chair in their name to express my gratitude to the three of them as well as my alma mater as they helped me extraordinarily in my formative years," he said.