Ravish Kumar Wins Ramon Magsaysay Award 2019: List of Indians Who Won the Prestigious Award in the Past
NDTV journalist Ravish Kumar has been named for the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award. Popularly known as 'Asia's Nobel Prize', the award is among the highest honours given to people excelling in set fields.
NDTV journalist Ravish Kumar has been named for the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award. Popularly known as 'Asia's Nobel Prize', the award is among the highest honours given to people excelling in set fields. The award committee tweeted a list of recipients for 2019, saying that Kumar has been honoured for his "courage undaunted" while "harnessing journalism to give voice to the voiceless". They also praised his "unfaltering commitment to professional, ethical journalism of the highest standards". Ravish Kumar is among the five recipients of the 2019 Magsaysay award, the "greatness of spirit and transformative leadership in Asia".
Many Indians have bagged the award in the past. Acharya Vinoba Bhave was the first Indian to win the award. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is the only person from a political background to bag Ramon Magsaysay Award. Amitabh Chowdhury was the first Indian to win an award for journalism. The first Indian woman to win the award was Mother Teresa. Jayaprakash Narayan won the award for his public service in 1965. Ravish Kumar Wins Ramon Magsaysay Award 2019, NDTV Journalist to Receive Honour in Manila on September 9.
Here is The List of Indians Who Won the Ramon Magsaysay Award:
| Name | Year Awarded | Category |
| Vinobha Bhave | 1958 | Community Leadership |
| Chintaman Deshmukh | 1959 | Government Services |
| Amitabha Chowdhury | 1961 | Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts |
| Mother Teresa | 1962 | Peace and International Understanding |
| Dara Khurody | 1963 | Community Leadership |
| Verghese Kurien | 1963 | Community Leadership |
| Tribhuvandas Patel | 1963 | Community Leadership |
| Welthy Fisher | 1964 | Peace and International Understanding |
| Jayaprakash Narayan | 1965 | Public Service |
| Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay | 1966 | Community Leadership |
| Satyajit Ray | 1967 | Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts |
| Moncompu Sambasivan Swaminathan | 1971 | Community Leadership |
| M.S. Subbalakshmi | 1974 | Public Service |
| Boobli George Verghese | 1975 | Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts |
| Henning Holck-Larsen | 1976 | Peace and International Understanding |
| Ela Ramesh Bhatt | 1977 | Community Leadership |
| Mabelle Arole | 1979 | Community Leadership |
| Rajanikant Arole | 1979 | Community Leadership |
| Gour Kishore Gosh | 1981 | Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts |
| Pramod Karan Sethi | 1981 | Community Leadership |
| Chandi Prasad Bhatt | 1982 | Community Leadership |
| Manibhai Desai | 1982 | Public Service |
| Arun Shourie | 1982 | Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts |
| Rasipuram Lakshman | 1984 | Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts |
| Muralidhar Amte | 1985 | Public Service |
| Lakshmi Chand Jain | 1989 | Public Service |
| K.V. Subbanna | 1991 | Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts |
| Ravi Shankar | 1992 | Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts |
| Banoo Jehangir Coyaji | 1993 | Public Service |
| Kiran Bedi | 1994 | Government Services |
| Pandurang Athavale | 1996 | Community leadership |
| Tirunellai Seshan | 1996 | Government Services |
| Maheshweta Devi | 1997 | Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts |
| Jockin Arputham | 2000 | Peace and International Understanding |
| Aruna Roy | 2000 | Community Leadership |
| Rajendra Singh | 2001 | Community Leadership |
| Sandeep Pandey | 2002 | Emergent Leadership |
| James Michael Lyngdoh | 2003 | Government Services |
| Shantha Sinha | 2003 | Government Services |
| Lakshminarayan Ramdas | 2004 | Peace and International Understanding |
| V. Shantha | 2005 | Public Service |
| Arvind Kejriwal | 2006 | Emergent Leadership |
| Palagummi Sainath | 2007 | Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts |
| Mandakini Amte | 2008 | Community Leadership |
| Deep Joshi | 2009 | Community Leadership |
| Neelima Mishra | 2011 | Emergent Leadership |
| Harish Hande | 2011 | Community Leadership |
| Kulandei Francis | 2012 | Emergent Leadership |
| Anshu Gupta & Sanjiv Chaturvedi | 2015 | Emergent Leadership |
| Bezwada Wilson,
Thodur Madabusi Krishna |
2016 | Human rights activist,
Carnatic music |
| Bharat Vatwani,
Sonam Wangchuk |
2018 | Restoring health and dignity to troubled lives
Education for community progress |
| Ravish Kumar | 2019 | Harnessing journalism to give voice to the voiceless |
The Ramon Magsaysay Award is an annual award established to remember former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay who is considered to be an example of integrity in governance, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealism within a democratic society. It internationally-recognized as Asia's Nobel Prize counterpart and is the highest award given to Asian individuals and organisations. The trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund based in New York City, established the award in April 1957.
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