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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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