Sridevi, Sharmila Tagore receive Padma Awards

Zeenews Bureau New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee conferred the prestigious Padma Awards, the country’s highest civilian awards, to 108 personalities from varied walks of life on Friday, April 5, 2013. Sridevi and Sharmila Tagore from the world of cinema were present at the event to receive their honours from the President. Sridevi, who was honoured with the Padma Shri, was dressed to the occasion and looked stunningly beautiful in a cream saree. Senior Begum of Pataudi too looked graceful as she accepted the Padma Bhushan from the President. Veteran actor Nana Patekar too has been honoured with a Padma Shri; while India’s first superstar, the late Rajesh Khanna was decorated with a posthumous Padma Bhushan for his contribution to the field of art. Here are the awardees who have made their mark in the fields of art and entertainment and literature and education this year: Padma Vibhushan Raghunath Mohapatra, Art, Orissa S Haider Raza, Art, Delhi Padma Bhushan Dr Ramanaidu Daggubati, Art, Andhra Pradesh Sreeramamurthy Janaki, Art, Tamil Nadu Dr (Smt) Kanak Rele, Art, Maharashtra Sharmila Tagore, Art, Delhi Dr (Smt) Saroja Vaidyanathan, Art, Delhi Abdul Rashid Khan, Art, West Bengal Late Rajesh Khanna, Art, Maharashtra Late Jaspal Singh Bhatti, Art, Punjab Padma Bhushan Mangesh Padgaonkar, Literature and Education, Maharashtra Prof Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Literature & Education USA Padma Shri Gajam Anjaiah, Art, Andhra Pradesh Swami G C D Bharti alias Bharati Bandhu, Art, Chhattisgarh B Jayashree, Art, Karnataka Sridevi Kapoor, Art, Maharashtra Kailash Chandra Meher, Art, Orissa Brahmdeo Ram Pandit, Art, Maharashtra Vishwanath D Patekar alias Nana Patekar, Art, Maharashtra R Nageswara Rao alias Surabhi Babji, Art, Andhra Pradesh Lakshmi Narayana Sathiraju, Art, Tamil Nadu Jaymala Shiledar, Art, Maharashtra Suresh Dattatray Talwalkar, Art, Maharashtra P Madhavan Nair alias Madhu, Art, Kerala Apurba Kishore Bir, Art, Maharashtra Ghanakanta Bora Borbayan, Art, Assam Hilda Mit Lepcha, Art, Sikkim Sudha Malhotra, Art, Maharashtra Ghulam Mohammad Saznawaz, Art, Jammu and Kashmir Ramesh Gopaldas Sippy, Art, Maharashtra Mahrukh Tarapor, Art, Maharashtra Balwant Thakur, Art, Jammu and Kashmir Puran Das Baul, Art, West Bengal Rajendra Tikku, Art, Jammu and Kashmir Pablo Bartholomew, Art, Delhi Shri S Shakir Ali, Art, Rajasthan Prof (Capt) Dr M Sharaf-eAlam, Literature & Education, Bihar Dr Radhika Herzberger, Literature & Education, Andhra Pradesh J Malsawma, Literature and Education, Mizoram Devendra Patel, Literature & Education, Gujarat Dr Rama Kant Shukla, Literature & Education, Delhi Prof Akhtarul Wasey, Literature & Education, Delhi Prof Anvita Abbi, Literature & Education, Delhi Nida Fazli, Literature & Education, Madhya Pradesh Surender Kumar Sharma, Literature & Education, Delhi Dr Jagdish Prasad Singh, Literature & Education, Bihar Late Shaukat Riaz Kapoor Alias Salik Lakhnawi, Literature & Education, WB Prof Noboru Karashima, Literature & Education, Japan Christopher Pinney, Literature & Education, UK