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In the first of this series we will look at recipients of Indian Civilian Awards for this year.
1. Bharat Ratna
India’s highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna was
posthumously conferred on well-known educationist and freedom fighter, Madan Mohan Malaviya. Former Prime
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was
also conferred the honour.
2. Padma Vibhushan
The second highest civilian award, this year was conferred
on 9 individuals, including Indians as well as foreigners.
LK Advani- Public Affairs
Amitabh Bachchan- Art
Prakash Singh Badal-Public Affairs
0Dr D Veerendra Heggade- Social Work
Mohammad Yusuf Khan alias Dilip Kumar- Art
Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya- Others
Prof Malur Ramaswamy Srinivasan- Science and Engineering
Kottayan K. Venugopal- Public Affairs
Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan (Foreigner) – Trade and Industry
3. Padma Bhushan
This year Padma Bhushan was conferred on 20 people including Indians as
well as foreigners. They were honoured for their contribution in various
fields.
Jahnu Barua- Art-
Dr Vijay Bhatkar- Science and Engineering
Shri Swapan Dasgupta- Literature and Education
Swami Satyamitranand Giri- Others
N Gopalaswami- Civil Service
Dr Subhash C Kashyap- Public Affairs
Dr (Pandit) Gokulotsavji Maharaj- Art
Dr Ambrish Mithal- Medicine
Sudha Ragunathan- Art
Harish Salve- Public Affairs
Dr Ashok Seth- Medicine
Rajat Sharma- Literature and Education
Satpal- Sports
Shivakumara Swami- Others
Dr Kharag Singh Valdiya- Science and Engineering
Prof Manjul Bhargava (NRI/PIO) – Science and Engineering
David Frawley (Vamadeva) (Foreigner) – Others
Bill Gates (Foreigner) – Social Work
Melinda Gates (Foreigner) – Social Work
Saichiro Misumi (Foreigner) – Others
4. Padma Shri- This
category has a total of 75 awardees. We will look at some of the prominent
ones.
Prasoon Joshi- Art
Sanjay Leela Bhansali- Art
Dr Randeep Guleria-Medicine
Pran Kumar Sharma (posthumous) – Art
P.V. Sindhu-Sports
Sardar Singh- Sports
Arunima Sinha- Sports
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