Dronavalli Harika Gets Arjuna Award
By Arvind Aaron
World Junior Girls champion Dronavalli Harika of Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
was honoured with the prestigious Arjuna Award given by the Government of
India for excellence in sports once in a lifetime.
All India Chess Federation congratulates her on this latest achievement
and wishes her more success in the future. Harika has a long way to go in
her career. She had won many world age-group titles and the last one was
the World Junior at Turkey this month. This award is for excellence in
2007.
She became the 14th Indian chess player to receive this award after:
Manuel Aaron, Rohini Khadilkar, Dibyendu Barua, P.M. Thipsay, Viswanathan
Anand, D.V. Prasad, Bhagyashree Thipsay, Anupama Gokhale, S. Vijayalakshmi,
K. Sasikiran, Koneru Humpy, S.S. Ganguly, P. Harikrishna. Further details
can be seen on http://yas.nic.in
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Published on
30th August, 2008
