Awards in 2010

Jnanpith
Award (for
2006)
Ravindra Kelkar Konkani Writer
2007 ONV Kurup Malayalam Writer
2008 Akhlaq Khan Shahryar Urdu Poet

Rajiv Gandhi
Khel Ratna
Saina Nehwal Badminton
Arjuna Awards Joseph Abraham Athletics
Krishna Poonia Athletics
Dinesh Kumar Boxing
Parimrajan Negi Chess
Deepak Kumar Mandal Football
Sandeep Singh Hockey (Men)
Jasjeet Kaur Handa Hockey (Women)
Dinesh Kumar Kabaddi
Sanjeev Rajput Shooting
Rehan Jehangir Poncha Swimming
Kapil Dev K J Volleyball
Rajeev Tomar Wrestling
Rajesh Chaudhary Yachting
Jagseer Singh Paralympic
(Athletics)
Dhyan Chand
Award
Satish Pillai Athletics
Kuldeep Singh Wrestling
Anita Chanu Weightlifting
Dronacharya
Awards
A K Kutty Athletics
Subhash B Aggarwal Billiards and
Snooker
L Ibomcha Singh Boxing
Ajay Kumar Bansal Hockey
Captain Chandrup ( For lifetime contribution to coaching) Wrestling
Rashtriya Khel
Protsahana
Puraskar
Services Sports Control Board Community Sports
Identification and
nurturing of
budding and young
talent
Tata Steel Limited Financial Support
for Sports
Excellence
Khel Evam Yuva Vibhag, Govt of MP Establishment and
Management of
Sports Academies
of Excellence
Services Sports Control Board Employment of
sportsperson and
sports welfare
measures
Dada Saheb
Phalke Award,
2009
D Ramanaidu

National Film
Awards for
2009

Best Feature
Film
Kutty Srank Malyalam. Starring
Mamooty.
Best Popular
Film
3 Idiots
Best film on
national
integration
Delhi-6
Best film on
social issues
Well Done Abba
Best Actor Amitabh Bacchan For Paa. (Has won
the award 3 times
now)
Best Actress Ananya Chatterjee For Abohoman
(Bengali)
Best Director Rituparno Ghosh For Abohoman
Best Film in
non-feature
category
The Postman and Bilal (Joint)

Shanti Swarup
Bhatnagar
Award 2010

Sanjeev Galande (Bio sciences) National Centre for
Cell Science, Pune
Shubha Tole (Bio Sciences) TIFR
Swapan K Pati Jawaharlal Nehru
Centre for
Advanced Scientific
Research,
Bangalore
Sandeep Verma IITK
G K Ananthasuresh IISc
Sanghamitra Bandopadhyay ISI, Kolkata
Mitali Mukherji Institute of
Genomics and
Integrative Biology,
Delhi
Umesh Vasudeo Waghmare Jawaharlal Nehru
Centre for
Advanced Scientific
Research,
Bangalore
Kalobaran Maiti TIFR

Sangit Natak
Akademi
Fellow
(Akademi
Ratna) for
2009

Lalgudi G Jayaraman Carnatic Violinist
Shriram Lagoo Film Actor (Hindi
and Marathi)
Yamini Krishnamurti Bharatnatyam/The
atre
Kamlesh Dutt Tripathi Theatre
Kishori Amonkar Khayal/Thumri/Bha
jan singer
Pandit Jasraj Hindustani Classical
Vocalist
India
International
Film Festival
2010

Golden
Peacock Award
Moner Manush (Bengali) (dir: Gautam Ghose) The film is a saga of
the life of Lalan
Faquir, a 19
th

century Bengali
Philosopher poet
and his liberal sect
whose message
was tolerance
Best Actor Guven Kiran (Turkey) For the film: The
Crossing
Best Actress Magdalena Boczarska (Poland) For the film: Little
Rose

Sahitya
Academi
Awards

Poets Arun Sakhardande Konkani
Vanita Punjabi
Mithila Prasad Tripathi Sanskrit
Sheen Kaaf Nizam Urdu
Laxman Dubey Sindhi
Mangat Badal Rajasthani
Aurobindo Uzir Bodo
Gopi Narayan Pradhan Nepali
Novelists Esther David English
Bani Basu Bengali
Dhirendra Mehta Gujarati
M Borkanya Manipuri
Short Stories Nanjil Nadan Tamil
Uday Prakash Hindi
Manoj Dongri
Padmavibhush
an

Montek Singh Ahluvalia
Brajesh Mishra Former National
Security Advisor
Azim Premji
A Nageshwara Rao Telugu film
celebrity
Kapila Vatsyayan Art Historian
Lakshmi Chand Jain (posthumous) the family declined the
honor as LC Jain was against the concept of state honors.
Gandhian activist.
Served as a
member of
Planning Comm
and Indian HC to S.
Africa
Padma
Bhushan

Waheeda Rahman
Padma Shri
VVS Laxman
http://www.hindu.com/2011/01/26/stories/201101266219
1600.htm

Ashok Chakra
Major Laishram Jyotin Singh Posthumous. He
was an Army
doctor.
Kirti Chakra Cptn Deepak Sharma (Psth), Cptn Vikrant Ajit Deshmukh,
Major Rahul Gurung
For fighting
insurgents and
terrorists in J&K,
J&K and Manipur
respectively
Shaurya
Chakra
Major Deepak Yadav and Major Nitish Roy: killed during
attack on Indian mission in Kabul
Guardsman Krishnan Kumar, Sepoy Ravi Kant and Sepoy
Sangat Singh
All posthumous

Fakhruddin Ali
Ahmad Award
for National
Integration
Presented by the Assam government
M J Akbar (2008) Journalist
Hema Bharali (2009) Freedom fighter

International Awards

Nobel Prize 2010
Medicine Robert G Edwards (British) For research in in-vitro
fertilization
Physics Andre Geim (UK)
Konstantin Novoselov (UK)
For experiments with
Graphene. Novoselov is the
youngest physicist since 1973
to win a nobel
Chemistry Richard Heck (US)
Ei-ichi Negishi (US)
Akira Suzuki (Japan)
Palladium catalysed cross
coupling
Literature Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) Famous works: Conversation in
the Cathedral, The feast of the
goat, The time of the Hero
Peace Liu Xiaobo (China) For his long and non-violent
struggle for fundamental
human rights in China
Economic Sciences Peter Diamond (MIT)
Dale Mortensen (NorthWestern
University)
Christopher Pissarides (LSE)
For their analysis of markets
with search frictions

Man Booker Prize 2010 Howard Jacobson (British) For the novel The Finkler
Question

Knight of the Order of Legion
dHonneur (Frances highest
honour)
Deepak Parekh

Pulitzer Prize 2010
General non-fiction Siddhartha Mukharjee Book: The Emperor of all
Maladies: A biography of
Cancer
NY Times For its economics commentary
and reporting on Russia
Public Service + Feature
Photography
The Los Angeles Times
Photography Carol Guzy <has won 4 Pultizers>
Nikki Kahn
Ricky Carioti
<The Washington Post>
For pictures of earthquake in
Haiti
Fiction Jennifer Egan A visit from the goon squad



Sports

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
Started in 1991-92.
It is the highest honour given for achievement in sports.
First Awardee: Vishwanathan Anand (1991-92)
Was not awarded in 1993-94.
Joint awards were given in the years:
1994-95: Homi D Motivala(Yatching), P K Garg (Yatching)
1996-97: Nameirakpam Kunjarani (weightlifting), Leander Paes (Tennis)
2002-03: Anjali Bhagwat (shooting), K M Beenamol (Athletics)
2008-09: Mary Kom (Boxing), Vijender Singh (Boxing), Sushil Kumar (Wrestling)
In 2009-10, it was awarded to Saina Nehwal.
Only two cricket personalities have got the award: Tendulkar (1997-98), Dhoni (2007-08)
2 in badminton: Pullela Gopichand (2000-01) and Saina (2009-10)
1 in tennis: Leander Paes
Maximum given in shooting: 4. Abhinav Bindra (2001-02), Anjali Bhagwat (2002-03), Rajyavardhan
Singh Rathore (2004-05), Manavjit Singh Sandhu (2006-07)

Dhyan Chand Award
Instituted in 2002. Highest award for lifetime achievement in sports.
Rastriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar is given to institutions promoting sports development.

Booker Prize Winners from India
Name Year Book Other Books
Kiran Desai (resides in
US)
2006 The Inheritance of Loss Hullabaloo in the
Guava Orchard
V S Naipual
(Trinidadian of Indian
Origin) (also won the
Nobel Prize in 2001)
1971 In a Free State A House for Mr Biswas,
A Bend in the River,
The Enigma of Arrival
Salman Rushdie
(resides in UK)
1981 Midnights Children The Satanic Verses
Arundhati Roy 1997 The God of Small
Things


Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding
Award by GoI. Started in 1965. Administered by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations.
First: U Thant 1965
2007 Olafur Ragnar Grimmsson
Notable recipients: Martin Luther King Jr, Mother Teresa, Raul Prebisch, Nelson Mandela, Indira
Gandhi, Aung Suu Kyi
Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Developemnt
Annual award to individuals or organisations in recognition of creative efforts towards promoting
peace, disarmament etc. Since 1986
First Parliamentarians for global action
2007 Gates foundation
2008 Md Elbaradei
2009- Sheikh Hasina
2010 Lula Da silva
Other notable: Gorbachev, Rajiv Gandhi, Jimmy Carter, Md Yunus, MS Swaminathan, Kofi Annan,
Hamid Karzai


Science

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology

Started in 1958
Awarded annually by CSIR for applied or fundamental research in seven fields: Biology, Chemistry,
Earth Atmosphere Ocean and Planetary Sciences (Environmental Sciences), Engineering,
Mathematics, Medicine and Physics
A citizen of India engaged in research in any field of science and technology up to the age of 45 years
is eligible for the prize. Nominations proposed by CSIR, heads and deans of universities and previous
awardees. Announced on September 26.
Literature
Jnanpith Award

Instituted in 1961
First awarded in 1965: G Sankara Kurup
Highest literary award in India; presented by the Bhartiya Jnanpith trust.