Sadako Sasaki

This article was published in hindu, dated aug 5, 2008

Sadako Sasaki was two years old when Hiroshima was bombed. She survived the bombing, but was soon diagnosed with leukemia, the so called "atom bomb disease". A friend told Sadako that if she folded a thousand paper cranes, that gods would grant her wish. Sadako made over a thousand cranes before she died at the age of 12. The paper crane has gone to become symbol of peace. Sadako's friends and classmates wanted to build a monument for Sadako and for all other children who had been killed by the bomb. They collected money and in 1958 a statue of Sadako holding aloft a golden crane was unveiled. Inscribed below are the words:

This is our cry,
This is our prayer,
Peace in the world.

Above incident is not only to read, feel and shed two drops of tear. But not to repeat the mistake, else there would be none to shed tears about it.

We engineers and technologists, shaped by exceptional establishments should bring eminence to our motherland by further enhancing the mankind feats in accordance with nature. As they say a mistake done by architect can be covered by creepers, doctors can be buried and that of a lawyer can be covered by lies, but engineer's stands tall in the society.

ur friend,
kanagasabai S