{"id":14033,"date":"2022-06-08T11:33:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T11:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/?page_id=14033"},"modified":"2022-06-27T13:28:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T13:28:57","slug":"14033-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/14033-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Well Deserved Honour! Padma Shri for Our Fairfax Chairman Prem Watsa."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220601-WA00112322.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-13973 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220601-WA00112322-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20220601-WA0011[2322]\" width=\"354\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220601-WA00112322-264x300.jpg 264w, http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220601-WA00112322.jpg 529w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/a>We are very proud to share that,\u00a0 Prem Watsa, Fairfax Chairman &amp; CEO \u2013 Fairfax Financial Holdings, has been awarded the prestigious Padma Shri by the High Commissioner of India to Canada, on behalf of the President of India. The Padma Shri is India\u2019s highly prestigious civilian award and recognizes Mr. Watsa\u2019s distinguished services to India \u2013 both business and charitable.<\/p>\n<p>We had announced the wonderful news in PULSE, in 2019, but due to the pandemic, the physical ceremony could not be performed until now.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"responsove_lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220601-WA00122324.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-13974 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220601-WA00122324-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20220601-WA0012[2324]\" width=\"274\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220601-WA00122324-243x300.jpg 243w, http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220601-WA00122324.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 As a friend of India and a passionate advocate for investment in India,\u00a0Prem\u2019s contribution has\u00a0 been invaluable in strengthening the India-Canada partnership.\u00a0 A recipient of the Order of Canada,\u00a0he has now been honored by high civilian awards by both his country of birth (India) and of citizenship (Canada).<\/p>\n<p>As our Managing Director,\u00a0<strong>Madhavan Menon<\/strong>\u00a0had said, when it was first announced:<strong>\u00a0\u201cThomas Cook Ind<\/strong>ia<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>is extremely proud of\u00a0 Prem Watsa, and his being awarded the distinguished Padma Shri by the Government of India, recognises his vision to transform and give back to India \u2013 the country of his birth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"responsove_lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220601-WA00132326.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-13975 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220601-WA00132326-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20220601-WA0013[2326]\" width=\"438\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220601-WA00132326-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220601-WA00132326-600x300.jpg 600w, http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220601-WA00132326.jpg 811w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He added<strong>, \u201c<\/strong>Having been acquired by<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Fairfax in 2012, Thomas Cook India\u2019s fruitful growth story stands testament to\u00a0Prem\u2019s visionary leadership \u2013 not only to provide outstanding business services, but also sustainability and giving back to the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Being a part of the Fairfax Global family, we take proprietary pride in this honour and send our best wishes to our Fairfax Chairman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are very proud to share that,\u00a0 Prem Watsa, Fairfax Chairman &amp; CEO \u2013 Fairfax Financial Holdings, has been awarded the prestigious Padma Shri by the High Commissioner of India to Canada, on behalf of the President of India. The Padma Shri is India\u2019s highly prestigious civilian award and recognizes Mr. Watsa\u2019s distinguished services to&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/14033-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14033"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14033"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14407,"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14033\/revisions\/14407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}