MAGASAYAY AWARDEES

Year Name – Organization/Foundation/Category

 

1958 Vinoba Bhave CL

1959 Chintaman Deshmukh GS

1961 Amitabha Chowdhury JLCCA

1962 Mother Teresa PIU

1963 Dara Khurody CL

1963 Verghese Kurien CL

1963 Tribhuvandas Patel CL

1964 Welthy Fisher PIU

1965 Jayaprakash Narayan PS

1966 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay CL

1967 Satyajit Ray JLCCA

1971 M.S. Swaminathan CL

1974 M.S.Subbulakshmi PS

1975 Boobli George Verghese JLCCA

1976 Henning Holck-Larsen PIU

1976 Sombhu Mitra JLCCA

1977 Ela Ramesh Bhatt CL

1979 MabelleArole CL

1979 Rajanikant Arole CL

1981 Gour Kishore Ghosh JLCCA

1981 Pramod Karan Sethi CL

1982 Manibhal Desai PS

1982 Chandi Prasad Bhatt CL

1982 Arun Shourie JLCCA

1984 Rasipuram Laxman JLCCA

1985 Murlidhar Amte PS

1989 Lakshmi Chand Jain PS

1991 K.V. Subbanna JLCCA

1992 Ravi Shankar JLCCA

1993 Banoo Jehangir Coyaji PS

1994 Kiran Bedi GS

1996 Pandurang Athavale CL

1996 T.N. Seshan GS

1997 Mahasweta Devi JLCCA

1997 Mahesh Chander Mehta PS

2000 Jockin Arputham PIU

2000 Aruna Roy CL

2001 Rajendra Singh CL

2002 Sandeep Pandey EL

2003 James Michael Lyngdoh GS

2003 Shantha Sinha, CL

2004 Laxminarayan Ramdas PIU

2005 V Shanta . PS

2006 Arvind Kejriwal EL

2007 Palagummi Sainath JLCCA

 

GS -Government Service; PS-Public Service; CL-Community Leadership; JLCCA-Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts; PIU-Peace and International Understaning; ELEmergent Leadership.

MISS UNIVERSE 2009                                      

Miss Venezuela Stefania Fernandez was crowned Miss Universe 2009

Nation FILM AWARD INDIA 2008

The annual film awards in India, 55th National Awards (for year 2007-2008) were announced on September 07, 2009. Here is the List of Winners:

• Best Actor: Prakash Raj (Kanchivaram)
• Best Actress: Uma Shree (Kannada film Gulabi Talkies)
• Best Film Award: Kanchivaram
• Best Child Actor: Sharad Goyekar (Marathi film Tingya)
• Best Screenplay: Gandhi My Father
• Best Supporting Actor: Darshan Zariwala (Gandhi My Father)
• Special Jury mention: Gandhi My Father
• Best Film for National Integration Award: Dharm
• Best Wholesome Entertainment: Chake De India
• Best Family Welfare Film: Taare Zameen Par
• Best Playback Singer: Shankar Mahadevan for ‘Meri Maa’ (Taare Zameen Par)
• Best Lyrics: Prasoon Joshi (Taare Zameen Par)

India Awards and Honours: 2008

Prof M. Krishnamurthy

Awarded the Swarnajayanthi Fellowship 2006-07 by the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India.

Dr Sangita Bose

Awarded the INSA Medal for Young Scientist for the year 2008

Dr Bipul Paul

Awarded the INSA Medal for Young Scientist for the year 2008

Prof E.V. Sampathkumaran

Selected for the J.C. Bose Fellowship Award

Prof Sunil Mukhi

Selected for the J.C. Bose Fellowship Award

Prof V. Srinivas

Selected for the J.C. Bose Fellowship Award

Prof T.N. Venkatramana

Selected for the J.C. Bose Fellowship Award

Prof Nilmani Mathur

Selected for the Ramanujan Fellowship Award

Dr Vaibhav Prabhudesai

Awarded the INSA Medal for Young Scientist for the year 2008

Professor V.S. Borkar

Awarded the Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Medal (2008) by the Indian National Science Academy

Professor T.P. Singh

Awarded the second prize in an international annual essay competition conducted by the Gravity Research Foundation, USA, for his essay “Noncommutative Gravity, a “No Strings Attached” Quantum-classical Duality, and the Cosmological Constant Puzzle”.

Dr Indranil Mazumdar

Selected for the Swarna Jayanti Fellowship 2006-07 by the Department of Science & Technology

Dr Subhendu Kahalay

Awarded the first prize in the Young Physicists Colloquium – 2008 organised by the Indian Physical Society, Kolkata

Prof. Shiraz Minwalla

Selected as “Affiliate Fellow, TWAS 2008″ by The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, Italy

Shri P.M. Krishna Mohan

Department of Chemical Sciences awarded the ISCA Young Scientists Award Programme for the year 2008-2009 by the Indian Science Congress Association, Kolkata

Prof. V. Srinivas

Awarded TWAS Prize in Mathematics for 2008 by the Third World Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, Italy

Prof. R.V. Hosur

Department of Chemical Sciences, elected Fellow of TWAS 2008 by The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, Italy