Aim for more, be passionate in pursuit: Anand tells students
19-Jul-2010 03:51:48 PM By: R Venkat
Chennai: They asked him what dream he had during his formative years, which of his victories he cherishes most etc, but it was really a dream come true for budding sporting talents of Velammal Matric Higher Secondary School here exhanging ideas with world chess champion Viswanathan Anand.
The school is one of the few educational institutions which gives equal importance to academics and sports.
Answering an array of questions from India’s future sporting stars, as it were, at a ‘Laudation Ceremony’ got up by the school, the four time world champion Anand said after distributing sports sholarships worth Rs 23 lakhs, ” of course, you’ll have a dream of becoming something. But take one objective at a time before you.”
Anand said pursuing a sport be it chess, basketball, tennis, table tennis et al successfully along with studies was much easier now compared to his childhood days.
” I was lucky my parents allowed me to pursue sports, unsual those days. It is wonderful that Velammal does so much for sport”, the Grand Master said.
“We don’t have this burden of explaining why we are doing something which is a more pleasant activity”, Anand observed about combining sports and academics now.
Source: http://www.mynews.in
Anand is cool.