Dhoni gets Padma Bhushan,Padma Vibhushan for Ilaiyaraja
NEW DELHI : The government on Thursday announced the list of Padma Awards winners. The list of Padma Vibhushan awardees include the names of music director Isaignani Ilaiyaraja and RSS ideologue Parameswaran Parameswaran. MS Dhoni, Pankaj Advani Get Padma Bhushan.
Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan are the second and third highest civilian awards of the country respectively. Ved Prakash Nanda has been conferred with Padma Bhushan for literature and education; Laxman Pai for Painting and Arvind Parikh and Sharda Sinha for music. Here is the full list:
- Ved Prakash Nanda – Literature and Education
- Laxman Pai – Art (Painting)
- Arvind Parikh – Art (Music)
- Sharda Sinha – Art (Music)Pankaj Advani – Sport (Billiards/Snooker)
- Philipose Mar Chrysostom – Others (Spiritualism)
- Mahendra Singh Dhoni – Sports (Cricket)
- Alexander Kadakin (Foreigner/Posthumous) – Public Affairs
- Ramachandran Nagaswamy – Others (Archaeology)
Here is the list of Padma Shri awardees:
- Rajagopalan Vasudevan – Science & Engineering (Innvoation)
- Subhasini Mistry – Social work
- Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan – Literature & education (affordable education)
- Sulagatti Narasamma – Medicine
- Yeshi Dhoden – Medicine
- Rani and Abhay Bang – Medicine (Affordable Healthcare)
- Lentina Ao Thakkar – Social Work (Service)
- Romulus Whitaker – Others (Wildlife Conservation)
- Sampat Ramteke – Social Work
- Sanduk Ruit – Medicine (Ophthalmology)
- Arvind Gupta – Literature & education (affordable education)
- Lakshmikutty – Medicine (snake bite)
- Bhajju Shyam – Art (Painting – Gond Art)
- Sudhanshu Biswas – Social service
- MR Rajagopal – Medicine (Palliative Care)
- Murlikant Petkar – Sports
Meanwhile, music composer, Ilayaraja, musician Ghulam Mustafa Khan and Parameswaran Parameswaran (Literature & Education) have been conferred with the second highest civilian honour, Padma Vibhushan.
The ministry of home affairs conferred Padma Awards to 85 personalities this year. The ministry gave three Padma Vibhushan, nine Padma Bhushan and 73 Padma Shri this year.
The Padma Shri awards list was for personalities who served the poor, set up free schools and popularised tribal arts globally.
Lakshmikutty, a tribal woman from Kerala, who prepares 500 herbal medicine from memory and help thousands of people especially in snake and insect bite cases, is among the Padma Shri awardees. She teaches at Kerala Folklore Academy and lives in a small hut made of palm leaves roof in tribal settlement in a forest. She is the only tribal woman from her area to attend school in the 1950s.
Arvind Gupta, an IIT Kanpur alumnus who inspired generations of students to learn science from thrash, has also been honored with Padma Shri. Gupta visited 3,000 schools in four decades, made 6,200 short films on toy-making in 18 languages and also hosted popular TV show Tarang in 1980s.
Internationally-acclaimed Gond artist Bhajju Shyam has also been awarded the Padma Shri. Shyam is famous for depicting Europe through Gond paintings, a tribal style of painting of Madhya Pradesh.
Born in a poor tribal family, he worked as a night guard and electrician to support family before becoming a professional artist. His ‘The London Jungle Book’ sold 30,000 copies and it was published in five foreign languages.
West Bengal’s Sudhanshu Biswas, a 99-year-old freedom fighter who serves poor, runs school and orphanages and set up free school for poor, is also among the winners.
Kerala’s medical messiah to terminally ill, M.R. Rajagopal, has also been honoured with Padma Shri. Rajagopal has specialised in pain relief care for neo natal cases.Maharashtra’s Murlikant Petkar, India’s first para- Olympic gold medalist, who lost his arm in 1965 Indo-Pak war, is another winner of the Padma Shri.
Tamil Nadu’s Rajagopalan Vasudevan, who is known as plastic road-maker of India, developed a patented and innovative method to reuse plastic waste to construct roads, has also been given the Padma Shri.
Subhasini Mistry, a poor lady from rural West Bengal, who toiled 20 years as domestic help and daily laborer to build a hospital for poor in the State, is another awardee.
Nonagenarian farm labourer Sulagatti Narasamma, who provides midwifery services in backward region of Karnataka without any medical facility, too was awarded the Padma Shri.
Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan, an acclaimed Tamil folk exponent, who has dedicated her life towards collection, documentation and preservation of Tamil folk and tribal music, has also been given Padma Shri. Another awardee is Yeshi Dhoden, monk physician of Tibetan herbal medicine working in remote areas of Himachal Pradesh.
