List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (2010–2019)

[1] Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "distinguished service of a high order", without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex.

[2] The recipients receive a Sanad, a certificate signed by the President of India and a circular-shaped medallion with no monetary association.

The recommendations are received from all the state and the union territory governments, as well as from Ministries of the Government of India, the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan awardees, the Institutes of Excellence, the Ministers, the Chief Ministers and the Governors of State, and the Members of Parliament including private individuals.

The medal is suspended by a pink riband 1+1⁄4 inches (32 mm) in width with a broad white stripe in the middle.

Individuals from ten different fields were awarded, which includes sixty artists, thirty-five from literature and education, twenty-four from science and engineering, twenty-one from trade and industry, eighteen from medicine, fifteen civil servants, seventeen from public affairs, ten sportspersons, eight from social work, and eleven from other fields.

[36] He was also accused of lobbying for the award by leveraging his contacts in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and United States Congress.

Ronen Sen, who was then serving as the Indian Ambassador to the United States, had told the PMO that the conferral would not be appropriate because of the controversy associated with Chatwal's financial dealings in two countries.

Sen had also mentioned that though positive, Chatwal's contribution are much less compared to other Indian-Americans and the bestowal would not only "demoralise the others who had done much more" but also would create "the impression that India did not regard lack of transparency in financial dealings as a disqualification for its highest honours".

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In a career spanning over six decades, Shrinivas Khale (awarded in 2010) composed more than 1000 songs primarily written in Marathi along with Hindi , Bengali , Gujarati and Sanskrit . [ 7 ]
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Mallika Sarabhai (awarded in 2010) is a Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi dancer and has been awarded Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (2000) and the Knight of the Order of Arts & Letters (2002). [ 8 ]
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Kathakali exponent Madavoor Vasudevan Nair (awarded in 2011) had expertise in portraying anti-hero characters such as Ravana , Duryodhana , Kichaka , and Jarasandha . [ 9 ]
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Ayurvedic and Naturopathy exponent Raghavan Thirumulpad (awarded in 2011) has authored several works on wellness in Sanskrit and Malayalam . [ 10 ]
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Considered "one of the foremost contemporary artists", [ 11 ] British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor (awarded in 2012) was awarded a Knighthood in 2013. [ 12 ]
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Cardiac surgeon turned businessman Devi Shetty (awarded in 2012) is a chairman and Founder of Narayana Health , a chain of over 20 medical centers in the country. [ 13 ]
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Marathi language poet and lyricist Mangesh Padgaonkar (awarded in 2013) won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1980 for his collection of poems, Salaam . [ 14 ]
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A critical theorist, literary critic, and educator Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (awarded in 2013) has been involved in rural education, feminist and ecological social movements since 1986. [ 15 ]
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Having authored over 500 short stories and articles, [ 16 ] Indian author of British descent Ruskin Bond (awarded in 2014) also received the Sahitya Akademi Award for English writing in 1992. [ 17 ]
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Grammy-winner percussionist in the field of Carnatic music and a Ghatam exponent T. H. Vinayakram (awarded in 2014) has been elected Fellow of Sangeet Natak Akademi for his contribution to Indian music. [ 18 ]
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Best known as the architect of country's first supercomputer PARAM , Vijay P. Bhatkar (awarded in 2015) is a computer scientist , Information technology leader, and educationist. [ 19 ]
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Geologist Khadg Singh Valdiya (awarded in 2015) is known for his contribution to the sphere of geodynamics and was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for his work in the fields of neotectonics , sedimentology , and environmental geology . [ 20 ]
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A. V. Rama Rao (awarded in 2016) is known for his work in Organic synthesis and has published more than 260 research papers. Rao has been elected a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy , the Indian Academy of Sciences , the National Academy of Sciences , and The World Academy of Sciences . [ 21 ]
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Vinod Rai (awarded in 2016) is the former Comptroller and Auditor General of India and had been a director on several boards, including the State Bank of India , ICICI Bank , IDBI Bank , Life Insurance Corporation of India , and IDFC . [ 22 ]
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Grammy-winner Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (awarded in 2017) is a Hindustani classical music instrumentalist, the "best known exponent of the Mohan Veena ". [ 23 ]
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Thailand national Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn (awarded in 2017) is a scholar of Sanskrit language. [ 24 ]
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The longest-serving bishop (over 62 years) in the country, Philipose Mar Chrysostom (awarded in 2018) is the Metropolitan bishop of the Mar Thoma Church in Kerala . [ 25 ]
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Once described as "an unequalled expert in Chola bronzes ", historian, archaeologist and epigraphist R. Nagaswamy (awarded in 2018) is known for his work on temple inscriptions and art history of Tamil Nadu . [ 26 ]