Time magazine has honored Ian Grillot, the US citizen who took bullets for Indian techie Srinivas Kuchibhotla during the racially motivated Kansas shooting earlier this year. His name features in the magazine’s “5 Heroes Who Gave Us Hope 2017”. Grillot was severely injured when he tried to intervene in the shooting by a Navy veteran who was targeting Indians at a bar in Olathe, Kansas. Srinivas was killed in the shootout and his colleague Alok Madasani was injured. “I wouldn’t have been able to live with myself if I didn’t do anything,” Grillot said in an article posted by Time Magazine.
The magazine saluted him as the “bargoer who stepped into the line of fire.” “Without all the prayers and positive support from everybody, I wouldn’t be doing as well as I am right now. It has been a wonderful year and a blessing to be alive,” Ian told PTI. Grillot was having a gala time in the restaurant when the gunman approached Sirnivas and Alok and told them to “get out of my country”. Ian intervened to keep the shooter from harming others and was shot in the chest by the assailant. Earlier this year, Ian was also felicitated with a check of USD 100,000 by Indian Americans in Houston and was honored as “A True American Hero”.
Here are some of the Twitter reactions:
@IanGrillot Congratulations for honour from Time magazine. Wish you a healthy life and may god bless you more courage.
— Ganesh Kale (@gbk2611) December 11, 2017
Shout out to Ian Grillot. People like you gives hope to humanity. #SayNoToRacism #Humanityexist
— Kinley Rinzin Duba (@Kinzin_duba_27) December 11, 2017
We Indians should also recognise Mr. Ian Grillot for sustaining bullet injuries while savings Indian students in a racist attack to Indians in Kansas shooting incident in February this year.
— Tridib Lahiri (@LahiriTridib) December 11, 2017
.@IanGrillot should be @TIME person of the year.
— Love of Cinema (@loveofcinemasf8) November 30, 2017
Others who are lauded by Time includes a chef who fed Hurricane Maria victims in Puerto Rico, Jonathan Swift who helped 20 strangers during the shooting at the Las Vegas music fest, Houston residents who helped a woman having a baby during Hurricane Harvey and a California based dog who refused to leave the livestock he was guarding during wildfire rage. What are your views? Let us know in the comments below.
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