International Awards
Nobel Prize 2010
Medicine
Robert G Edwards (British)
For research in in-vitro fertilization
Physics
Andre Geim (UK)
For experiments with Graphene. Novoselov is the youngest physicist since 1973 to win a nobel
Chemistry
Richard Heck (US)
Palladium catalysed cross coupling
Literature
Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
Famous works: Conversation in the Cathedral, The feast of the goat, The time of the Hero
Peace
Liu Xiaobo (China)
For his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China
Economic Sciences
Peter Diamond (MIT)
For their analysis of markets with search frictions
Man Booker Prize 2010
Howard Jacobson (British)
For the novel ‘The Finkler Question’
Knight of the Order of Legion d’Honneur (France’s highest honour)
Deepak Parekh
Pulitzer Prize 2010
General non-fiction
Siddhartha Mukharjee
Book: The Emperor of all Maladies: A biography of Cancer
NY Times
For its economics commentary and reporting on Russia
Public Service + Feature Photography
The Los Angeles Times
Photography
Carol Guzy <has won 4 Pultizers>
<The Washington Post>
Fiction
Jennifer Egan
A visit from the goon squad
Nobel Prize 2010
Medicine
Robert G Edwards (British)
For research in in-vitro fertilization
Physics
Andre Geim (UK)
Konstantin Novoselov (UK)
For experiments with Graphene. Novoselov is the youngest physicist since 1973 to win a nobel
Chemistry
Richard Heck (US)
Ei-ichi Negishi (US)
Akira Suzuki (Japan)
Palladium catalysed cross coupling
Literature
Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
Famous works: Conversation in the Cathedral, The feast of the goat, The time of the Hero
Peace
Liu Xiaobo (China)
For his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China
Economic Sciences
Peter Diamond (MIT)
Dale Mortensen (NorthWestern University)
Christopher Pissarides (LSE)
For their analysis of markets with search frictions
Man Booker Prize 2010
Howard Jacobson (British)
For the novel ‘The Finkler Question’
Knight of the Order of Legion d’Honneur (France’s highest honour)
Deepak Parekh
Pulitzer Prize 2010
General non-fiction
Siddhartha Mukharjee
Book: The Emperor of all Maladies: A biography of Cancer
NY Times
For its economics commentary and reporting on Russia
Public Service + Feature Photography
The Los Angeles Times
Photography
Carol Guzy <has won 4 Pultizers>
Nikki Kahn
Ricky Carioti
<The Washington Post>
For pictures of earthquake in Haiti
Fiction
Jennifer Egan
A visit from the goon squad
Sports
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
Started in 1991-92.
It is the highest honour given for achievement in sports.
First Awardee: Vishwanathan Anand (1991-92)
Was not awarded in 1993-94.
Joint awards were given in the years:
1994-95: Homi D Motivala(Yatching), P K Garg (Yatching)
1996-97: Nameirakpam Kunjarani (weightlifting), Leander Paes (Tennis)
2002-03: Anjali Bhagwat (shooting), K M Beenamol (Athletics)
2008-09: Mary Kom (Boxing), Vijender Singh (Boxing), Sushil Kumar (Wrestling)
In 2009-10, it was awarded to Saina Nehwal.
Only two cricket personalities have got the award: Tendulkar (1997-98), Dhoni (2007-08)
2 in badminton: Pullela Gopichand (2000-01) and Saina (2009-10)
1 in tennis: Leander Paes
Maximum given in shooting: 4. Abhinav Bindra (2001-02), Anjali Bhagwat (2002-03), Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (2004-05), Manavjit Singh Sandhu (2006-07)
Dhyan Chand Award
Instituted in 2002. Highest award for lifetime achievement in sports.
Rastriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar is given to institutions promoting sports development.
Awards in 2010
Jnanpith Award (for 2006)
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Ravindra Kelkar
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Konkani Writer
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2007
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ONV Kurup
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Malayalam Writer
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2008
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Akhlaq Khan Shahryar
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Urdu Poet
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Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
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Saina Nehwal
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Badminton
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Arjuna Awards
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Joseph Abraham
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Athletics
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Krishna Poonia
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Athletics
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Dinesh Kumar
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Boxing
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Parimrajan Negi
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Chess
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Deepak Kumar Mandal
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Football
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Sandeep Singh
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Hockey (Men)
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Jasjeet Kaur Handa
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Hockey (Women)
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Dinesh Kumar
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Kabaddi
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Sanjeev Rajput
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Shooting
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Rehan Jehangir Poncha
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Swimming
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Kapil Dev K J
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Volleyball
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Rajeev Tomar
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Wrestling
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Rajesh Chaudhary
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Yachting
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Jagseer Singh
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Paralympic (Athletics)
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Dhyan Chand Award
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Satish Pillai
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Athletics
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Kuldeep Singh
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Wrestling
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Anita Chanu
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Weightlifting
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Dronacharya Awards
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A K Kutty
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Athletics
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Subhash B Aggarwal
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Billiards and Snooker
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L Ibomcha Singh
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Boxing
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Ajay Kumar Bansal
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Hockey
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Captain Chandrup ( For lifetime
contribution to coaching)
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Wrestling
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Rashtriya Khel Protsahana Puraskar
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Services Sports Control Board
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Community Sports Identification and
nurturing of budding and young talent
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Tata Steel Limited
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Financial Support for Sports
Excellence
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Khel Evam Yuva Vibhag, Govt of MP
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Establishment and Management of
Sports Academies of Excellence
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Services Sports Control Board
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Employment of sportsperson and sports
welfare measures
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Dada Saheb Phalke Award, 2009
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D Ramanaidu
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National Film Awards for 2009
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Best Feature Film
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Kutty Srank
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Malyalam. Starring Mamooty.
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Best Popular Film
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3 Idiots
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Best film on national integration
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Delhi-6
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Best film on social issues
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Well Done Abba
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Best Actor
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Amitabh Bacchan
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For Paa. (Has won the award 3 times
now)
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Best Actress
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Ananya Chatterjee
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For Abohoman (Bengali)
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Best Director
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Rituparno Ghosh
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For Abohoman
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Best Film in non-feature category
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The Postman and Bilal (Joint)
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Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2010
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Sanjeev Galande (Bio sciences)
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National Centre for Cell Science,
Pune
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Shubha Tole (Bio Sciences)
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TIFR
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Swapan K Pati
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Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced
Scientific Research, Bangalore
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Sandeep Verma
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IITK
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G K Ananthasuresh
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IISc
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Sanghamitra Bandopadhyay
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ISI, Kolkata
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Mitali Mukherji
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Institute of Genomics and Integrative
Biology, Delhi
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Umesh Vasudeo Waghmare
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Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced
Scientific Research, Bangalore
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Kalobaran Maiti
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TIFR
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Sangit Natak Akademi Fellow (Akademi Ratna) for
2009
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Lalgudi G Jayaraman
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Carnatic Violinist
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Shriram Lagoo
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Film Actor (Hindi and Marathi)
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Yamini Krishnamurti
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Bharatnatyam/Theatre
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Kamlesh Dutt Tripathi
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Theatre
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Kishori Amonkar
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Khayal/Thumri/Bhajan singer
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Pandit Jasraj
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Hindustani Classical Vocalist
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India International Film Festival 2010
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Golden Peacock Award
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Moner Manush (Bengali) (dir: Gautam
Ghose)
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The film is a saga of the life of
Lalan Faquir, a 19th century Bengali Philosopher poet and his
liberal sect whose message was tolerance
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Best Actor
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Guven Kiran (Turkey)
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For the film: The Crossing
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Best Actress
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Magdalena Boczarska (Poland)
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For the film: Little Rose
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Sahitya Academi Awards
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Poets
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Arun Sakhardande
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Konkani
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Vanita
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Punjabi
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Mithila Prasad Tripathi
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Sanskrit
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Sheen Kaaf Nizam
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Urdu
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Laxman Dubey
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Sindhi
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Mangat Badal
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Rajasthani
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Aurobindo Uzir
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Bodo
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Gopi Narayan Pradhan
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Nepali
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Novelists
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Esther David
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English
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Bani Basu
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Bengali
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Dhirendra Mehta
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Gujarati
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M Borkanya
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Manipuri
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Short Stories
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Nanjil Nadan
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Tamil
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Uday Prakash
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Hindi
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Manoj
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Dongri
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Padmavibhushan
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Montek Singh Ahluvalia
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Brajesh Mishra
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Former National Security Advisor
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Azim Premji
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A Nageshwara Rao
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Telugu film celebrity
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Kapila Vatsyayan
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Art Historian
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Lakshmi Chand Jain (posthumous) – the
family declined the honor as LC Jain was against the concept of state honors.
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Gandhian activist. Served as a member
of Planning Comm and Indian HC to S. Africa
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Padma Bhushan
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Waheeda Rahman
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Padma Shri
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VVS Laxman
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Ashok Chakra
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Major Laishram Jyotin Singh
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Posthumous. He was an Army doctor.
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Kirti Chakra
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Cptn Deepak Sharma (Psth), Cptn
Vikrant Ajit Deshmukh, Major Rahul Gurung
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For fighting insurgents and
terrorists in J&K, J&K and Manipur respectively
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Shaurya Chakra
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Major Deepak Yadav and Major Nitish
Roy: killed during attack on Indian mission in Kabul
Guardsman Krishnan Kumar, Sepoy Ravi
Kant and Sepoy Sangat Singh
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All posthumous
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Fakhruddin Ali Ahmad Award for National
Integration
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Presented by the Assam government
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M J Akbar (2008)
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Journalist
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Hema Bharali (2009)
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Freedom fighter
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Booker Prize Winners from India
Name
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Year
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Book
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Other Books
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Kiran Desai
(resides in US)
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2006
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The Inheritance
of Loss
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Hullabaloo in
the Guava Orchard
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V S Naipual
(Trinidadian of Indian Origin) (also won the Nobel Prize in 2001)
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1971
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In a Free
State
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A House for Mr
Biswas, A Bend in the River, The Enigma of Arrival
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Salman Rushdie
(resides in UK)
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1981
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Midnight’s
Children
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The Satanic
Verses
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Arundhati Roy
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1997
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The God of
Small Things
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Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding
Award by GoI. Started in 1965. Administered
by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations.
First: U Thant – 1965
2007 – Olafur Ragnar Grimmsson
Notable recipients: Martin Luther King Jr,
Mother Teresa, Raul Prebisch, Nelson Mandela, Indira Gandhi, Aung Suu Kyi
Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Developemnt
Annual award to individuals or
organisations in recognition of creative efforts towards promoting peace,
disarmament etc. Since 1986
First – Parliamentarians for global action
2007 – Gates foundation
2008 – Md Elbaradei
2009- Sheikh Hasina
2010 – Lula Da silva
Other notable: Gorbachev, Rajiv Gandhi,
Jimmy Carter, Md Yunus, MS Swaminathan, Kofi Annan, Hamid Karzai
Science
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
Started in 1958
Awarded annually by CSIR for applied or
fundamental research in seven fields: Biology, Chemistry, Earth Atmosphere
Ocean and Planetary Sciences (Environmental Sciences), Engineering,
Mathematics, Medicine and Physics
A citizen of India engaged in research in
any field of science and technology up to the age of 45 years is eligible for
the prize. Nominations proposed by CSIR, heads and deans of universities and
previous awardees. Announced on September 26.
Literature
Jnanpith Award
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Instituted in 1961
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First awarded in 1965: G
Sankara Kurup
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Highest literary award in
India; presented by the Bhartiya Jnanpith trust.
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