By IANS,
New Delhi : The following is the full list of Padma awardees on the occasion of Republic Day:
Bharat Ratna: Pandit Bhimsen Joshi – Hindustani classical music (announced Nov 4, 2008).
Padma Vibhushan:
Chandrika Prasad Srivastava (civil service – Maharashtra), Sunderlal Bahuguna (environment conservation – Uttarakhand), D.P. Chattopadhyaya
(literature & education – West Bengal), Jasbir Singh Bajaj (medicine – Punjab), Purshotam Lal (medicine – Uttar Pradesh), Govind Narain (public affairs – Uttar Pradesh), Anil Kakodkar (science & engineering – Maharashtra), G. Madhavan Nair (science & engineering – Karnataka), Sister Nirmala (social work – West Bengal), A.S. Ganguly (trade & industry – Maharashtra).
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).