Dear Friends,
The 16 Anniversary Gala Dinner of the Malaysia India Business Council (MIBC)was held at the Sime Darby Convention Centre, on 9 Oct, 2024.
It was a grand occasion, with Minister of Digital Malaysia, YB Tuan Govind Singh Deo and The High Commissioner of India, HE Shri BN Reddy as the Guests of Honour. Indian Minister HE Shri Nitin Gadkari gave a special congratulatory message.
The Gala Dinner was hosted by Tan Sri Kuna Sittampalam, Chairman of MIBC. Business corporate fraternities of both Malaysia and India attended the event in full force. Also present was New Delhi-based Odia artist, Shri Bibhu Patnaik who had just arrived for his exhibition ‘Lahara’ launch at Sutra Gallery on 11 October.
As usual Chacko Vadaketh emceed the gala dinner with style and panache. With Tan Sri Kuna helming MIBC, the Malaysia India Business Council has been a prime mover in driving the ecosystem and sustainability of business links between the two nations.
It is of vital importance for Malaysia to sustain this as India is moving fast in its meteoric trajectory as a world economic powerhouse. Awards were given to outstanding Malaysian corporates as Industry Winners and to individuals who have been outstanding in spearheading the above mentioned business links with India.
We recognised several of the corporates such as IJM Corporation Bhd (Tan Sri Krishnan Tan) DMIA (Datuk Seri Subramaniam Pillai), HSS Engineers Bhd (Ir Sharifah Azlina, Executive Director) and individuals such as Tan Sri Ajit Singh, Tan Sri Ravindran Menon, Tan Sri Kuna Sittampalam and Dato’ Bhaskaran Pillai who came forward to receive their awards. These are corporations and individuals who are aware of India’s soft cultural diplomacy functioning in tandem to move forward with its political and economic strategies.
Sutra Foundation, which has been at the forefront of this aspect of cultural diplomacy with India for the last 4 decades, presented a scintillating Odissi. It then surprised the guests with a fiesty Bollywood number which was also highly appreciated by the guests.
Sutra.