Muthuraman, Piramal among awardees

Industry leaders B Muthuraman and Swati Piramal, late cartoonist Mario Miranda, actors Dharmendra and Shabana Azmi, top mathematician M S Raghunathan and former chief vigilance commissioner N Vittal were among the recipients of the Padma awards conferred by President Pratibha Patil in New Delhi on Wednesday.

Miranda’s son Rahul received the Padma Vibhushan from Patil at a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan attended by Vice-President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and a host of other dignitaries.

Among those who received Padma Bhushan awards were film actors Dharmendra and Shabana Azmi, literary theorist Homi K Bhabha, violinist M S Gopalakrishnan, Tata Steel Vice-Chairman B Muthuraman, former bureaucrat Mata Prasad, mathematician Raghunathan, jurist P Chandrasekhara Rao, Vittal, neurologist Noshir Hormusji Wadia and former Singapore Foreign Minister George Yong-Boon Yeo.

Eminent painter K G Subramanyan (Padma Vibhushan), Satya Narayan Goenka and Jose Pereira (Padma Bhushan) were not present at the ceremony.

Among the Padma Shri awardees were industrialist Swati Piramal, eminent diabetologist V Mohan, former hockey Olympian Zaffar Iqbal, archer Limba Ram and cricket commentator of yesteryear Ravi Chaturvedi.

Yakshagana exponent Ramachandra Subraya Hegde Chittani, sitar maestro Shahid Parvez Khan, terracotta artist Mohan Lal Kumhar, Rajasthani folk musician Sakar Khan Manganiar also received Padma Shri awards, besides Odissi dancer Minati Mishra, theatre personality R Nagarathnamma, Lavani exponent Yamunabai Waikar and Chhau dancer Gopal Prasad Dubey.

Among other Padma Shri awardees were Laila Tyabji (Handicrafts), Vijay Sharma (Painting), Reeta Devi, Niranjan Pranshankar Pandya, Sat Paul Varma and Phoolbasan Bai Yadav (Social Work).