Padma Awards Announced - 128 Names in List
New Delhi, Jan 25 (IANS): Former national security advisor Brajesh Mishra, Wipro chief Azim Premji, Planning Commission head Montek Singh Ahluwalia, culture czarina Kapila Vatsyayan and nonagenarian photographer Homai Vyarawalla head the list of the 128 Padma awards announced by the government Tuesday on the occasion of Republic Day.
The eight others who got the Padma Vibhushan, the country's second highest civilian award, include atomic energy scientist P.K. Iyer, educationist A.R. Kidwai, energy expert Vijay Kelkar, litterateurs O.N.V. Kurup and Sitakant Mahapatra and the late Gandhian economist L.C. Jain.
There was no Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian award, for the third year running. The last person to get it was Bhimsen Joshi in 2008. The music maestro passed away Tuesday.
The list has 128 names -- 13 Padma Vibhushans, 31 Padma Bhushans and 84 Padma Shri awards. There are 31 women in the list.
The third highest awards, the Padma Bhushans, were dominated by 12 personalities from the world of art and cinema, including the ailing Bollywood actor Shashi Kapoor and Waheeda Rahman, music director Khayyam, theatre personality Satyadev Dubey as well as eminent painters Krishen Khanna and Arpita Singh.
Eight people got the Padma Bhushan for their work in the field of trade and industry. Among them were ICICI Bank chief Chanda Kochhar, Infosys' Kris Gopalakrishnan, Ranbaxy's Analjit Singh, NIIT's Rajendra Singh Pawar, GVK Group's G.V.K. Reddy and HCL's Ajai Chowdhary.
Former foreign secretary and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's special envoy Shyam Saran has also been awarded the Padma Bhushan.
The 84 Padma Shris include eight NRIs/foreigners. Of the 84, 21 have got it for their role in art, including cinema, dance, puppetry and theatre.
Cinema is represented by Malayalee actor Jayaram Subramanian, Bollywood actors Tabu, Kajol and Irrfan Khan as well as eminent Malayalam director Shaji Neelakantan Karun and Kannada filmmaker Girish Kasaravalli.
Classical dancers Sunayana Hazariklal (kathak), K.K. Pavithran (mohiniattam) and M.K. Saroja (bharatnatyam) also figure in the list. Classical musicians get representation from people such as Ajoy Chakraborty (Indian classical music) and S.R. Janakiraman (Carnatic vocal music).
Renowned puppeteer Dadi Pudumjee has been named too as has old-time pop artist Usha Utthup and folk artists like Makar Dhwaja Darogha for Chhau dance.
There are six people who have got the Padma Shri for social work and seven in the category of sports. These include Sushil Kumar for wrestling, cricketer V.V.S. Laxman, Gagan Narang for shooting and discus thrower Krishna Poonia.
Nineteen names are in the list from the world of literature and education. Urvashi Butalia and Ritu Menon who started the women's publishing house Kali for Women are amongst the winners.
Awards have also been announced in the fields of nursing, archaeology and heritage conservation.
The Padma awards will be conferred by President Patil at a function in Rashtrapati Bhavan later this year.
List of the Padma Awardees
The following is the list of 128 Padma awardees approved by President Pratibha Patil on the eve of the Republic Day on Tuesday:
Padma Vibhushan
01 Kapila Vatsyayan Art-Administration and Promotion
02 Homai Vyarawalla Art-Photography
03 Nageshwara Rao Art- Cinema
04 Parasaran Kesava Iyengar Public Affairs
05 Akhlaq-ur-Rehman Kidwai Public Affairs
06 Vijay Kelkar Public Affairs
07 Montek Singh Ahluwalia Public Affairs
08 Palle Rama Rao Science and Engineering
09 Azim Premji Trade and Industry
10 Brajesh Mishra Civil Services
11 O N Velu Kurup Literature and Education
12 Sitakant Mahapatra Literature and Education
13 L C Jain Public Affairs
Padma Bhushan
01 Satyadev Dubey Art-Theatre
02 Khayyam Art-Cinema
03 Shashi Kapoor Art-Cinema
04 Krishen Khanna Art-Painting
05 Madavur Vasudevan Nair Art-Dance-Kathakali
06 Waheeda Rehman Art-Cinema
07 RK Shastry Srikantan Art-Music-Vocal
08 Arpita Singh Art-Painting
09 S P Balasubrahmanyam Playback Singing
10 C V Chandrasekhar Art-Classical Dance-Bharatanatyam
11 Dwijen Mukherjee Art
12 Rajashree Birla Social work
13 Shobhana Ranade Social work
14 Suryanarayanan Ramachandran Science and Engineering
15 S (Kris) Gopalakrishnan Trade and Industry
16 Yogesh Chander Deveshwar Trade and Industry
17 Chanda Kochhar Trade and Industry
18 K Anji Reddy Trade and Industry-Pharmacy
19 Analjit Singh Trade and Industry
20 Rajendra Singh Pawar Trade and Industry
21 G V Krishna Reddy Trade and Industry
22 Ajai Chowdhary Trade and Industry
23 Surendra Singh Civil Services
24 M N Buch Civil Services
25 Shyam Saran Civil Services
26 T J Sony George Literature and Education
27 Ramdas Madhava Pai Literature and Education
28 Sankha Ghosh Literature and Education
29 Late K R Thirumulpad Medicine-Ayurveda
30 Keki Byramjee Grant Medicine-Cardiology
31 Dashrath Patel Art
Padma Shri
01 Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry Art-Theatre
02 Makar Dhwaja Darogha Art-Chhau Dance
03 Shaji Neelakantan Karun Art-Film Direction
04 Girish Kasaravalli Art-Film making
05 Tabu Art-Cinema
06 Jivya Soma Mase Art-Warli Painting
07 Guru M K Saroja Art-Dance-Bharatnatyam
08 Jayaram Subramaniam Art-Cinema
09 Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty Art-Music-Indian Classical Vocal
10 Mahasundari Devi Art-Mithilia/Madhubani Painting
11 Gajam Govardhana Art-Handloom Weaving
12 Sunayana Hazarilal Art-Dance-Kathak
13 S R Janakiraman Art-Carnatic Vocal Music
14 Peruvanam Kuttan Marar Art-Drum concert
15 K K Pavithran Art-Dance-Mohiniattam
16 Dadi Dorab Pudumjee Art-Puppetry
17 Khangembam Mangi Singh Art-Traditional Music of Manipur
18 Prahlad Singh Tipaniya Art - Folk Music
19 Usha Uthup Art - Music
20 Kajol Art- Cinema
21 Irfan Khan Art- Cinema
22 Mamraj Agrawal Social work
23 Jockin Arputham Social work
24 Nomita Chandy Social work
25 Sheela Patel Social work
26 Anita Reddy Social work
27 Kanubhai Hasmukhbhai Tailor Social work
28 Anant Darshan Shankar Public Affairs
29 M Annamalai Science and Engineering
30 Mahesh Haribhai Mehta Science and Engineering
31 CN Rao Raghavendran Science and Engineering
32 Suman Sahai Science and Engineering
33 E A Siddiq Science and Engineering
34 G N Shankar Science and Engineering
35 Mecca Rafeeque Ahmed Trade and Industry
36 Kailasam Raghavendra Rao Trade and Industry
37 Narayan Singh Bhati Civil Services
38 P K Sen Civil Services
39 Shital Mahajan Sports-Adventure Sports- Para Jumping
40 Nameirakpam Kunjarani Devi Sports-Weightlifting
41 Sushil Kumar Sports - Wrestling
42 VVS Laxman Sports - Cricket
43 Gagan Narang Sports - Shooting
44 Krishna Poonia Sports - Discus Throw
45 Harbhajan Singh Sports - Mountaineering
46 Pukhraj Bafna Medicine - Padeatrics
47 Mansoor Hasan Medicine- Cardiology
48 Shyama Prasad Mandal Medicine - Orthopaedic
49 Sivapatham Vittal Medicine - Endocrinology
50 Madanur Ahmed Ali Medicine - Gastroenterology
51 Indira Hinduja Medicine - Obstetrics and Gynaecology
52 Jose Chacko Periappuram Medicine - Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
53 A Marthanda Pillai Medicine - Neurosurgery
54 Mahim Bora Literature and Education
55 Pullella Srirama Chandrudu Literature and Education- Sanskrit
56 Pravin Darji Literature and Education
57 Chandra Prakash Deval Literature and Education
58 Balraj Komal Literature and Education
59 Rajni Kumar Literature and Education
60 Devanooru Mahadeva Literature and Education
61 Barun Mazumder Literature and Education
62 Avvai Natarajan Literature and Education
63 Bhalchandra Nemade Literature and Education
64 Riyaz Punjabi Literature and Education
65 Koneru Ramakrishna Rao Literature and Education
66 Buangi Sailo Literature and Education
67 Devi Dutt Sharma Literature and Education
68 Nilamber Dev Sharma Literature and Education
69 Urvashi Butalia/Ritu Menon Literature and Education
70 Krishna Kumar Literature and Education
71 Deviprasad Dwivedi Literature and Education
72 Mamang Dai Literature and Education
73 Om Prakash Agrawal Heritage Conservation
74 Madhukar Keshav Dhavalikar Archeology
75 Shanti Teresa Lakra Nursing
76 Gulshan Nanda Handicrafts promotion
77 Azad Moopen Social work
78 Upendra Baxi Public Affairs -Legal Affairs
79 Mani Lal Bhaumik Science and Engineering
80 Subra Suresh Science and Engineering
81 Karl Harrington Potter Literature and Education
82 Martha Chen Social work
83 Satpal Khattar Trade and Industry
84 Granville Austin Literature and Education