The Ministry of Home Affairs has released a list of 119 people who would get the Padma Awards this year from President Ram Nath Kovind. 

 

Highlights

♦ Art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, and civil service are all covered by these prizes. 

♦ While the `Padma Shri` is given for distinguished service in any field, the `Padma Bhushan` is given for exceptional service.

♦ The `Padma Vibhushan`, on the other hand, is given for remarkable and distinguished service. 

♦ There are 29 women among the 2021 winners, one transgender person, ten foreigners/NRIs/OCIs, and 16 people who have died. In 2021, no one will be awarded the Bharat Ratna.

♦ Film producers Karan Johar and Ekta Kapoor, actor-filmmaker Kangana Ranaut, veteran actress Sarita Joshi, playback singer Suresh Wadkar, and music composer Adnan Sami were among the 61 Padma Shri awardees for the year 2020 who received the country`s fourth-highest civilian honor at a ceremony held in the Rashtrapati Bhavan here.

 

♦ Shinzo Abe, Japan

♦ S P Balasubramaniam (Posthumous), Tamil Nadu

♦ Belle Monappa Hegde, Karnataka

♦ Narinder Singh Kapany (Posthumous), USA

♦ Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, Delhi

♦ B. B. Lal, Delhi

♦ Sudarshan Sahoo, Odisha

 

♦ Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra, Kerala

♦ Tarun Gogoi (Posthumous), Assam

♦ Chandrashekhar Kambara, Karnataka

♦ Sumitra Mahajan, Madhya Pradesh

♦ Nripendra Misra, Uttar Pradesh

♦ Ram Vilas Paswan (Posthumous), Bihar

♦ Keshubhai Patel (Posthumous), Gujarat

♦ Kalbe Sadiq (Posthumous), Uttar Pradesh

♦ Rajnikant Devidas Shroff, Maharashtra

♦ Tarlochan Singh, Haryana

Galgut, a South African playwright and author, has won the Booker Prize for 2021.

 

He received the award for "The Promise," his third shortlisted novel about a family in his country from the end of apartheid to Jacob Zuma`s election.

 

Mr. Galgut won his third medal as a finalist for a novel that the judges described as a "tour de force." 

 

He had previously been nominated for "The Good Doctor" in 2003 and "In a Strange Room" in 2010, but both times he was unsuccessful.