The Award-Happy Indian Government: "What do I do to win one?"
This year, Nobel laureate of Indian origin Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Apollo hospital chief Pratap Reddy and former RBI Governor Y V Reddy were chosen for the second highest civilian award Padma Vibhushan.
Music maestro A R Rahman and Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan have been named for Padma Bhushan. Sure, I can understand Mr. Rahman being nominated –he made all of India proud with his wins at the Oscars and the Grammys. By Mr. Khan — are you kidding me? Whose the real “idiot” now?
Cricketer Virendra Sehwag, Hockey national Ignace Tirkey, Formula 1 driver Narain Kartikeyan, Badminton star Saina Nehwal, Boxer Vijender Singh and Sachin Tendulkar’s ‘guru’ Ramakant Achrekar had also been selected for Padma Shri awards in sports category. I suppose Mr. Sehwag’s “guru” should expect to be nominated for an award next year. Bring it on lads.
Among the Padma Bhushan awardees this year are noted NRI hotelier Sant Singh Chatwal (I suppose starting a hotel in the US should make us 1.2 billion Indians proud!), eminent neurosurgeon Satya Paul Agarwal and eminent cardiac surgeon Ramakant Panda, who performed ‘beating heart’ surgery on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last year (good save,Ramakant) However, would he have been nominated if the surgery wasn’t a sucess. I wonder. Eminent theatre personalities Zohra Segal and Ebrahim Alkazi and noted ‘mridangam’ Carnatic artist Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman are the other three chosen for Padma Vibhushan award by the government which, in all, named 130 people, including 13 in the category of foreigners, NRIs and PIOs (foreign citizens but have Indian descent). 43 are Padma Bhushan and 83 are Padma Shri. So, to conclude, to win an “award” from the Indian government, you need to either be well connected in New Delhi. If you’re not, then you need to come close to scoring three triple centuries in a row, or own a hotel or two in another country, or save the Prime Ministers life. Easy.
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