The awards given, it was the Prime Minister’s turn to receive a memento: A framed black-and-white photograph, capturing him with a different portfolio and a different attire. Express National Photo Editor Praveen Jain had taken the photo in 1991 when Dr Manmohan Singh was Finance Minister and had not yet exchanged the shirt and tie for kurtas. Accompanying the photographs was a set of cartoons by Express’s cartoonist E P Unny.

When the curtains came down on India’s biggest journalism awards, it was with more good news. Four news awards will be instituted next year among them one in partnership with the Johns Hopkins University for excellence in covering HIV/AIDS in India. The other new categories are film journalism; sports; and the best non fiction book.