Padma Vibhushan for Ilaiyaraja, MS Dhoni gets Padma Bhushan: Check Full List of Awardees
Among the awardees, 16 are from the category of foreigners, non-resident Indians and three are posthumous.
New Delhi, Jan 25: Noted music composer Illaiyaraja, Hindutava thinker Parameswaran Parameswaran, former Indian cricket team captain M S Dhoni were among 85 people chosen for the prestigious Padma awards of 2018.
Among the awardees, 16 are from the category of foreigners, non-resident Indians and three are posthumous.
74-year-old Illaiyaraja, who has been conferred with Padma Bhushan in 2009, was selected for Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award after Bharat Ratna.
Padma Vibhushan
Illaiyaraja
Ghulam Mustafa Khan
P. Parameswaran
Padma Bhushan
Pankaj Advani
Philipose Mar Chrysostom
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Alexander Kadakin (Foreigner/Posthumous)
R. Nagaswamy
Ved Prakash Nanda (Overseas Citizen of India)
Laxman Pai
Arvind Parikh
Sharda Sinha
Padma Shri
Abhay and Rani Bang
Damodar Ganesh Bapat
Prafulla Govinda Baruah
Mohan Swaroop Bhatia
Sudhanshu Biswas
Saikhom Mirabai Chanu
Pandit Shyamlal Chaturvedi
Jose Ma Joey Concepcion III (Foreigner)
Langpoklakpam Subadani Devi
Somdev Devvarman
Yeshi Dhoden
Arup Kumar Dutta
Doddarange Gowda
Arvind Gupta
Digamber Hansda
Ramli Bin Ibrahim (Foreigner)
Anwar Jalalpuri (Posthumous)
Piyong Temjen Jamir
Sitavva Joddati
Malti Joshi
Manoj Joshi
Rameshwarlal Kabra
Pran Kishore Kaul
Bounlap Keokangna (Foreigner)
Vijay Kichlu
Tommy Koh (Foreigner)
Lakshmikutty
Joyshree Goswami Mahanta
Narayan Das Maharaj
Pravakara Maharana
Hun Many (Foreigner)
Nouf Marwaai (Foreigner)
Zaverilal Mehta
Krishna Bihari Mishra
Sisir Purushottam Mishra
Subhasini Mistry
Tomio Mizokami (Foreigner)
Somdet Phra Maha Muniwong (Foreigner)
Keshav Rao Musalgaonkar
Thant Myint – U (Foreigner)
V Nanammal
Sulagitti Narasamma
Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan
I Nyoman Nuarta (Foreigner)
Malai Haji Abdullah Bin Malai Haji Othman (Foreigner)
Gobaradhan Panika
Bhabani Charan Pattanaik
Murlikant Petkar
Habibullo Rajabov (Foreigner)
M R Rajagopal
Sampat Ramteke (Posthumous)
Chandra Sekhar Rath
S S Rathore
Amitava Roy
Sanduk Ruit (Foreigner)
R Sathyanarayana
Pankaj M Shah
Bhajju Shyam
Maharao Raghuveer Singh
Kidambi Srikanth
Ibrahim Sutar
Siddeshwara Swamiji
Lentina Ao Thakkar
Vikram Chandra Thakur
Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy Tharanathan - Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy Thyagarajan
Nguyen Tien Thien
Bhagirath Prasad Tripathi
Rajagopalan Vasudevan
Manas Bihari Verma
Panatawane Gangadhar Vithobaji
Romulus Whitaker
Baba Yogendra
A Zakia
Noted Hindustani classical singer Ghulam Mustafa Khan, president of Vivekananda Kendra Kanyakumari Parameswaran Parameswaran from Kerala were honoured with Padma Vibhushan.
Dhoni, cueist Pankaj Advani, former Russian Ambassador to India late Alexander Kadakin, Hindustani classical musician Arvind Parikh, Tamil Nadu-based archaeologist Ramachandran Nagaswamy and Goan artist Laxman Pai were among nine prominent personalities who were honoured with Padma Bhushan.
Keeping its promise of honouring "unsung heroes", thegovernment honoured with Padma awards several personalitieswho served the poor, set up free schools and popularisedtribal arts globally.
Lakshmikutty, a tribal woman from Kerala, who prepares500 herbal medicine from memory and help thousands of peopleespecially in snake and insect bite cases, is among theawardees.
She teaches at Kerala Folklore Academy and lives in asmall hut made of palm leaves roof in tribal settlement in aforest. She is the only tribal woman from her area to attendschool in the 1950s.
Arvind Gupta, an IIT Kanpur alumnus who inspiredgenerations of students to learn science from thrash, has alsobeen honoured with Padma Shri.
Gupta visited 3,000 schools in four decades, made 6,200short films on toy-making in 18 languages and also hostedpopular TV show Tarang in 1980s.
Internationally-acclaimed Gond artist Bhajju Shyam hasalso been awarded the Padma Shri.
Shyam is famous for depicting Europe through Gondpaintings, a tribal style of painting of Madhya Pradesh. Bornin a poor tribal family, he worked as a night guard andelectrician to support family before becoming a professionalartist.
His 'The London Jungle Book' sold 30,000 copies and itwas published in five foreign languages.
Noted Kashmir theatre artist Pran Kishore Kaul, who shotto fame with his screen play of famous TV serial Gul GulshanGulfaam, has been awarded Padma Shri.
West Bengal's Sudhanshu Biswas, a 99-year-old freedomfighter who serves poor, runs school and orphanages and setup free school for poor, is also among the winners.
Kerala's medical messiah to terminally ill, M RRajagopal, has also been honoured with Padma Shri.
Rajagopal has specialised in pain relief care for neonatal cases.
Since last year, the Modi government has been honouring"unsung heroes" with the Padma awards to recognise people whohave dedicated their lives to working for the poor or haverisen from deprived backgrounds to excel in their own fields.
Maharashtra's Murlikant Petkar, India's first para-Olympic gold medalist, who lost his arm in 1965 Indo-Pak war,is another winner of the Padma Shri.
Tamil Nadu's Rajagopalan Vasudevan, who is known asplastic road-maker of India, developed a patented andinnovative method to reuse plastic waste to construct roads,has also been given the Padma Shri.
Subhasini Mistry, a poor lady from rural West Bengal, whotoiled 20 years as housemaid and daily labourer to build ahospital for poor in the state, is another awardee.
Nonagenarian farm labourer Sulagatti Narasamma, whoprovides midwifery services in backward region of Karnatakawithout any medical facility, too was awarded the Padma Shri.
Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan, an acclaimed Tamil folkexponent, who has dedicated her life towards collection,documentation and preservation of Tamil folk and tribal music,has also been given Padma Shri.
Another awardee is Yeshi Dhoden, monk physician ofTibetan herbal medicine working in remote areas of HimachalPradesh.