The Hindu : Rangarajan, Amonkar, Sorabjee honoured with Padma Vibhushan

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Rangarajan, Amonkar, Sorabjee honoured with Padma Vibhushan

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The President, K. R. Narayanan, the Vice-President, Krishan Kant, and the Prime Minister, A.B. Vajpayee, with the Padma awardees at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Saturday. — Photo: V. Sudershan

NEW DELHI MARCH 23. The President, K.R. Narayanan, today presented the prestigious Padma Vibhushan awards to the Andhra Pradesh Governor, Chakravarthi Rangarajan, Hindustani vocalist Kishori Ravindra Amonkar and Attorney-General Soli Jehangir Sorabjee.

At a solemn function in the Rashtrapati Bhavan here, Mr. Narayanan also presented awards to one batch of winners of Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri this year. The second and remaining batch was to have been presented with the awards next Tuesday but that ceremony has now been postponed by a day because of the joint session of Parliament on the POTO Bill which has been convened on Tuesday.

The Padma Bhushan awardees who were honoured today are: singer K.J. Yesudas, medical expert N. Rangabhashyam, everest hero Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia, industrialist H.H. Larsen, cartoonist Mario De Miranda, yoga teacher B.K.S.R. Iyengar, IT pioneer Faquir Chand Kohli, diplomat Jagat Singh Mehta, writer Nirmal Verma, music teacher Prabha Atre, aeronautical scientist Ramanujam Varatharaja Perumal, vocalist Shobha Viswanath Gurtu, and Indologist from Russia Yevgeni Petrovich Chelyshev.

Padma Sri awardees, who were presented with their awards today, are: film maker Govind Nihalani, comedienne `Achchi' Manorama, woman cricket star Diana Fram Edulji, musicians Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and Raj Begum, scientists D. Balasubramanian, Kota Harinarayana, Amitav Mallik, A. Sivathanu Pillai, Katuru Narayana, N. Balakrishnan, Ramanath Cowsik, C. Ganguly, and V.K. Sharma, medical experts Mathangi Ramakrishnan, P.K. Sethi, Prakash Murlidhar Amte, S.H. Advani, and A. Sriman Narayana, G. Nageswara Rao, literatteur A.R. Kelkar, dancers Saroja Vaidyanathan and Kiran Segal, journalists V.K. Madhavan Kutty and Muzaffer Hussain, musicologist N.P. Seshadri, `zari' specialist Fazal Mohammed, Indologist from the U.S., Philips Talbot, and Korean poestess-cum-author Kim Yang Shik.

The Prime Minister, A.B.Vajpayee, the former President, R. Venkataraman, the Home Minister, L.K. Advani, the External Affairs Minister, Jaswant Singh, and the Information and Broadcasting Minister, Sushma Swaraj, were present.

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