Padma Awardees

Padma vibhushan: Adoor Gopalakrishnan, art; C R Krishnaswamy Rao, civil service; Charles Correa, science and engg; Mahasweta Devi, literature and education; Nirmala Deshpande, social work; Norman E. Borlaug, science and engineering, Mexico; Obaid Siddiqui, science and engineering; Prakash Narain Tandon, medicine; Justice V N Khare, public affairs.

Padma bhushan: A K Hangal, art; Ustad Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan, art; Deepak Parekh, trade and industry; Devaki Jain, social work; Dinesh Nandini Dalmia, literature and education; Dusan Zbavitel, literature and education, Czechoslovakia; Ganga Prasad Birla, social work; Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan, art; Gregory Maximovich Bongard-Levin, literature and education, Russia; Late Dr Gunter Kruger (posthumous), trade and industry; Shri Hira Lall Sibal, public affairs; Jaiveer Agarwal, medicine; Air Commodore Jasjit Singh, Defence services; Prof K G Subramanyam, art; Kamleshwar Prasad Saxena, literature and education; Prof (Dr) Kewal Kishan Talwar, medicine; Konidala Chiranjeevi, art; K P P Nambiar, science and engineering; Lokesh Chandra, literature and education; Madhav Gadgil, science and engineering;

Padma Shri: Sania Mirza, tennis; eminent cardiologist Dr Uprendra Kaul, shot putter Bahadur Singh, Badminton player Madhumita Singh, ghazal singer Pankaj Udhas, Hindi journalist Mrinal Pande, beautician Shanaz Hussain, business journalist Sucheta Dalal, social worker and Infosys chief’s wife Sudha Murthy; Sheikh Abdul Rahman Bin Abdullah al-Mahmoud, public affairs, Qatar; Ajeet Cour, literature and education; Anil Prakash Joshi, social work; Aribam Shyam Sharma, art; Bahadur Singh, sports; Bhuvaraghan Palaniappan, medicine; Billy Arjan Singh, wildlife conservation; Bonbehari Vishnu Nimbkar, science and engineering; Devappagowda Chinnaiah, medicine; Fatma Rafiq Zakaria, literature and education; Gayatri Sankaran, art; Ghanashyam Mishra, medicine; Hakim Syed Zillur Rehman, medicine; Harbhajan Singh Rissam, medicine; Swami Hari Govind Maharaj, art; Harsh Kumar Gupta, science and engineering; Ilena Citaristi, art; J N chaudhry, civil service, Delhi Kamal Kumar Sethi, medicine, Delhi; Kanaka Srinivasan, art; Kashmiri Lal Zakir, literature and education; Kavungal Chatunni Panicker, art. — PTI