Mumbai attack heroes awarded Ashok Chakra
While Olympic medal winners wrestler Sushil Kumar and boxer Vijender Singh are sulking for being ignored for the R-Day honours, it has been a shower of Padma Shrees on the sportsmen especially the cricketers. In the art category Aishverya Rai Bachchan heads the list of Padma Shree followed by Akshay Kumar and singer Udit Narayan. Pt. Bhimsen Joshi had been selected for Bharat Ratna on Nov 4 2008.
Following is the list of Padma awardees.
Bharat Ratna: Pandit Bhimsen Joshi – Hindustani classical music (announced November 4, 2008).
Padma Vibhushan: Padma Bhushan: G. Sivarama Krishna Murthy alias Krishna (art – Andhra Pradesh), Ramanlal C. Mehta (art – Gujarat), Shamshad Begum (art – Maharashtra), V.P. Dhananjayan & Shanta Dhananjayan (duo – art – Tamil Nadu), Vaidyanathan Ganapathi Sthapati (art – Tamil Nadu), S.K. Misra (civil service – Haryana), Shekhar Gupta (journalism – Delhi), Alappat Sreedhara Menon (literature & education – Kerala), C.K. Prahlad (literature & education – NRI/ PIO), D. Jayakanthan (literature & education – Tamil Nadu).
Isher Judge Ahluwalia (literature & education – Delhi), Kunwar Narain (literature & education), Delhi, Minoru Hara (literature & education – foreigner), Ramachandra Guha (literature & education – Karnataka), Brijendra Kumar Rao (medicine – Delhi), Vaidya Devendra Triguna (medicine – Delhi), Khalid Hameed (medicine – NRI/ PIO), Lt. Gen. (retd) Satish Nambiar (national security affairs – Delhi), Inderjit Kaur Barthakur (public affairs – Meghalaya), Kirit Shantilal Parikh (public affairs – Delhi).
Bhakta B. Rath (science & engineering – NRI/ PIO), Conjeevaram Srirangachari Seshadri (science & engineering – Tamil Nadu), Gurdip Singh Randhawa (science & engineering – Delhi), Sam Pitroda (science & engineering – Delhi), Sarvagya Singh Katiyar (science & engineering – Uttar Pradesh), Thomas Kailath (science & engineering – NRI/ PIO), Naganath Nayakawadi (social work – Maharashtra), Sarojini Varadappan (social work – Tamil Nadu), Abhinav Bindra (sports – Punjab), Anil Manibhai Naik (trade & industry – Maharashtra).
Padma Shri:
Thilakan (art – Kerala), A. Vivekh (art – Tamil Nadu), Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (art – Maharashtra), Akshay Kumar (art – Maharashtra), Ameena Ahmed Ahuja (art – Delhi), Aruna Sairam (art – Tamil Nadu), Devayani Chaymotty (art – foreigner), Geeta Kapur (art – Delhi), Govind Ram Nirmalkar (art – Chhattisgarh), Gurumayum Gourakishor Sharma (art – Manipur).
Hashmat Ullah Khan (art – Jammu & Kashmir), Helen Khan (art – Maharashtra), Hemi Bawa (art – Delhi), Hridaynath Mangeshkar (art – Maharashtra), Iravatham Mahadevan (art – Tamil Nadu), K.P. Udayabhanu (art – Kerala), Kanneganti Brahmanandam (art – Andhra Pradesh), Kiran Seth (art – Delhi), Kumar Sanu Bhattacharjee (art – Maharashtra), Leela Omchery (art -Delhi).
Mattannoor Sankarankutty Marar (art -Kerala), Niranjan Goswami (art – West Bengal), Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa (art – Punjab), Penaz Masani (art – Maharashtra), Prakash N. Dubey (art – Maharashtra), Pratapaditya Pal (art – NRI/ PIO), Ram Kishore Chhipa (art – Rajasthan), Saoli Mitra (art – West Bengal), Skendrowell Syiemlieh (posthumous – art – Meghalaya), Subrahmanyam Krishnaswamy (art – Tamil Nadu).
Suresh Dutta (art – West Bengal), Tafazzul Ali (posthumous – art – Assam), Udit Narayan (art – Maharashtra), Vadakka Manalath Govindan alias Kalamandalam Gopi (art – Kerala), S.B. Ghosh Dastidar (civil service – Haryana), Ameen Sayani (commentary & broadcasting – Maharashtra), Abhay Chhajlani (journalism – Madhya Pradesh), A. Sankara Reddy (literature & education – Delhi), Alok Mehta (literature & education – Delhi), Bannanje Govindacharya (literature & education – Karnataka).
Birendranath Datta (literature & education – Assam), Geshe Ngawang Samten (literature & education – foreigner), Jalees Ahmed Khan Tareen (literature & education – Puducherry), Jayanta Mahapatra (literature & education – Orissa), John Ralston Marr (literature & education – foreigner), Lalthangfala Sailo (literature & education – Mizoram), Laxman Bapu Mane (literature & education – Maharashtra), Mathoor Krishnamurty (literature & education – Karnataka), Norden Tshering (literature & education – Sikkim), Panchapakesa Jayaraman (literature & education – NRI/ PIO).
Ram Shankar Tripathi (literature & education – Uttar Pradesh), Ranbir Chander Sobti (literature & education – Chandigarh), Ravindra Nath Srivastava literature & education – Bihar), Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (literature & education – Uttar Pradesh), Shashi Deshpande (literature & education – Karnataka), Sunny Varkey (literature & education – NRI/ PIO), Suresh Gundu Amonkar (literature & education – Goa), Utpal K. Banerjee (literature & education – Delhi), A.K. Gupta (medicine – Maharashtra), Alampur Saibaba Goud (medicine – Andhra Pradesh).
Arvind Lal (medicine – Delhi), Ashok K. Vaid (medicine – Delhi), Ashok Kumar Grover (medicine – Delhi), Balswarup Choubey (medicine – Maharashtra), D. S. Rana (medicine – Himachal Pradesh), Govindan Vijayaraghavan (medicine – Kerala), Kalyan Banerjee (medicine – Delhi), P.R. Krishna Kumar (medicine – Tamil Nadu), R. Sivaraaman (medicine – Tamil Nadu), Shaik Khader Noordeen (medicine – Tamil Nadu).
Thanikachalam Sadagopan (medicine – Tamil Nadu), Yash Gulati (medicine – Delhi), K. Asungba Sangtam (public affairs – Nagaland), Shyamlha Pappu
(public affairs – Delhi), Syed Iqbal Hasnain (research on Himalayan glaciers – Delhi), Goriparthi Narasimha Raju Yadav (science & engineering – Andhra Pradesh), Pramod Tandon (science & engineering – Meghalaya), Bansilal Rathi (social work – Madhya Pradesh), Bilkees I. Latif (social work – Andhra Pradesh), Cheril Krishna Menon (social work – NRI/PIO).
Rev. Fr. Joseph H. Pereira (social work – Maharashtra), K. Viswanathan (social work – Kerala), Keepu Tshering Lepcha (social work – Sikkim), Shyam Sunder Maheshwari (social work – Rajasthan), Sunil Kanti Roy (social work – West Bengal), Balbir Singh Khullar (sports – Punjab), Harbhajan Singh (sports – Punjab), Mahendra Singh Dhoni (sports – Jharkhand), Pankaj Advani (sports – Karnataka), Surinder Mehta (technology solutions – Delhi).
Arunmugam Sakthivel (trade & industry – Tamil Nadu), Bavaguthu Raghuram Shetty (trade & industry – NRI/ PIO), R.K. Krishna Kumar (trade & industry – Maharashtra).
The following is the full list of Padma awardees on the occasion of Republic Day:
Mumbai attack heroes awarded Ashok Chakra
While Olympic medal winners wrestler Sushil Kumar and boxer Vijender Singh are sulking for being ignored for the R-Day honours, it has been a shower of Padma Shrees on the sportsmen especially the cricketers. In the art category Aishverya Rai Bachchan heads the list of Padma Shree followed by Akshay Kumar and singer Udit Narayan. Pt. Bhimsen Joshi had been selected for Bharat Ratna on Nov 8 2008.
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