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<ul><li><div class="itg-mosimage"><div class="itgimage"><amp-img  src="https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/sites/media2/indiatoday/images/stories/1981February/eye-catchers-1_112813022132.jpg" alt = "" height="425" width="650" class="" layout="responsive"></amp-img></div>Shankar : Honoured maestro</div>India's greatest living exponent and teacher of the sitar, <b>Pandit Ravi Shankar,</b> 61, now a guest professor at Viswa bharati University, Shanti niketan, was one of the two Indians awarded the Padma Vibhushan last week as part of this year's Republic Day honours. The only other person to win the second-highest national award was <b>Satish Dhawan</b>, 60, chairman of the Space Commission, a voluble scientist who masterminded the take-off of India's first satellite, Rohini into space in July last year. With Rohini in orbit. India became the sixth country to have an indigenous satellite in space. <br><div class="itg-mosimage"><div class="itgimage"><amp-img  src="https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/sites/media2/indiatoday/images/stories/1981February/eye-catchers-2_112813022132.jpg" alt = "" height="425" width="650" class="" layout="responsive"></amp-img></div>Dhawan: Space mastermind</div>Of the 39 awards announced, nine were Padma Bhushans to be awarded to carefully selected professionals from various disciplines, including a journalist. social worker, scientist. novelist, astronomer, historian, doctor and film-maker. <div class="itg-mosimage"><div class="itgimage"><amp-img  src="https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/sites/media2/indiatoday/images/stories/1981February/eye-catchers-3_112813022132.jpg" alt = "" height="425" width="650" class="" layout="responsive"></amp-img></div>Sen: Recognition</div>Mrinal Sen, 57, the well-known Bengali film director, whose latest movie <i>Akale Sandhaney</i> (In Search of Famine) was screened at the Delhi festival last month as part of a <b>Mrinal Sen</b> retrospective, was among them. His last movie <i>Ekdin Pratidin </i>won the National Award for the best feature in 1980. Twenty-eight other personalities, including designer <b>Dashrath Patel</b> of Ahmedabad's National Institute of Design and expatriate painter<b> Sayad Haider Raza</b> who lives in Paris, were awarded Padma Shris.<br><br><br></li></ul><ul><li><div class="itg-mosimage"><div class="itgimage"><amp-img  src="https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/sites/media2/indiatoday/images/stories/1981February/eye-catchers-4_112813022132.jpg" alt = "" height="425" width="650" class="" layout="responsive"></amp-img></div>Bagla: Upwardly mobile</div>Is there trouble in table tennis? There used to be, according to members of the powerful Table Tennis Federation of India, an organisation noted for its long history of corruption, intrigue and nepotism. But last month, bureaucracy overtook ping-pong autocracy, when for the first time an important joint secretary of the Home Ministry took over as president of the Federation. <b>Surya Prakash Bagla</b>, 42, a former secretary to Punjab Chief Minister<b> Zail Singh</b>, and an upwardly mobile official in Delhi who is responsible for processing top civil service appointments, apart from becoming president of the Federation is also in the running for the secretary-general's job for 1982's Asian Games. He may lose that race, if Civil Supplies Minister <b>V. C. Shukla,</b> whose show it is, puis any obstacle. But Bagla carries no chip on his shoulder. Said he:"The new bureaucrat serves the public but he's also a public figure."<br><br><br></li></ul><ul><li><div class="itg-mosimage"><div class="itgimage"><amp-img  src="https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/sites/media2/indiatoday/images/stories/1981February/eye-catchers-5_112813022132.jpg" alt = "" height="425" width="650" class="" layout="responsive"></amp-img></div>Stapleton with ashram inmates: Treading the saffron path</div>Surrounded by<b> Rajneesh</b> acolytes, the Yankee lady below is none other than the sister of the man with the golden smile - former US President J<b>immy Carter's </b>sister <b>Ruth Stapleton</b>. A well-known Christian evangelist, Stapleton who visited Pune last month was treading the saffron path of many preceding celebrities who have taken refuge from time to time in the famous ashram. From Indian film star <b>Vinod Khanna</b> to British columnist <b>Bernard Levin,</b> the Rajneesh bandwagon is getting cramped for space.<b> Leo Ryan</b>, daughter of US Congressman <b>Shannon Jo Ryan,</b> killed by cult leader <b>Jim Jones</b> in Guyana, is another prize acquisition. But though Stapleton admitted that she was attracted by Rajneesh's "vision of religion as the key to health and wholeness in mind, body and spirit", she made it clear she was just dropping by as part of her world tour. As a spiritual healer of some repute at home, Stapleton liked what she saw. Next time round, she said, she may stay longer.</li></ul><div id="tab-link-wrapper-plugin"><div class="authors__container"><div class="authors__by"><div class="authlable">Published By: </div><div class="authdetaisl">AtMigration </div></div><div class="published__on"><div class="authlable">Published On: </div><div class="authdetaisl">Nov 28, 2013 14:51 IST</div></div></div><div class="sendros">--- ENDS ---</div></div>

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India became the sixth country to have an indigenous satellite in space. <br><div class="itg-mosimage"><div class="itgimage"><img  title=""  class="" alt="" src="https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/sites/media2/indiatoday/images/stories/1981February/eye-catchers-2_112813022132.jpg" loading="lazy" /></div>Dhawan: Space mastermind</div>Of the 39 awards announced, nine were Padma Bhushans to be awarded to carefully selected professionals from various disciplines, including a journalist. social worker, scientist. novelist, astronomer, historian, doctor and film-maker. <div class="itg-mosimage"><div class="itgimage"><img  title=""  class="" alt="" src="https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/sites/media2/indiatoday/images/stories/1981February/eye-catchers-3_112813022132.jpg" loading="lazy" /></div>Sen: Recognition</div>Mrinal Sen, 57, the well-known Bengali film director, whose latest movie <i>Akale Sandhaney</i> (In Search of Famine) was screened at the Delhi festival last month as part of a <b>Mrinal Sen</b> retrospective, was among them. His last movie <i>Ekdin Pratidin </i>won the National Award for the best feature in 1980. Twenty-eight other personalities, including designer <b>Dashrath Patel</b> of Ahmedabad's National Institute of Design and expatriate painter<b> Sayad Haider Raza</b> who lives in Paris, were awarded Padma Shris.<br><br><br></li></ul><ul><li><div class="itg-mosimage"><div class="itgimage"><img  title=""  class="" alt="" src="https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/sites/media2/indiatoday/images/stories/1981February/eye-catchers-4_112813022132.jpg" loading="lazy" /></div>Bagla: Upwardly mobile</div>Is there trouble in table tennis? There used to be, according to members of the powerful Table Tennis Federation of India, an organisation noted for its long history of corruption, intrigue and nepotism. But last month, bureaucracy overtook ping-pong autocracy, when for the first time an important joint secretary of the Home Ministry took over as president of the Federation. <b>Surya Prakash Bagla</b>, 42, a former secretary to Punjab Chief Minister<b> Zail Singh</b>, and an upwardly mobile official in Delhi who is responsible for processing top civil service appointments, apart from becoming president of the Federation is also in the running for the secretary-general's job for 1982's Asian Games. He may lose that race, if Civil Supplies Minister <b>V. C. Shukla,</b> whose show it is, puis any obstacle. But Bagla carries no chip on his shoulder. Said he:"The new bureaucrat serves the public but he's also a public figure."<br><br><br></li></ul><ul><li><div class="itg-mosimage"><div class="itgimage"><img  title=""  class="" alt="" src="https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/sites/media2/indiatoday/images/stories/1981February/eye-catchers-5_112813022132.jpg" loading="lazy" /></div>Stapleton with ashram inmates: Treading the saffron path</div>Surrounded by<b> Rajneesh</b> acolytes, the Yankee lady below is none other than the sister of the man with the golden smile - former US President J<b>immy Carter's </b>sister <b>Ruth Stapleton</b>. A well-known Christian evangelist, Stapleton who visited Pune last month was treading the saffron path of many preceding celebrities who have taken refuge from time to time in the famous ashram. From Indian film star <b>Vinod Khanna</b> to British columnist <b>Bernard Levin,</b> the Rajneesh bandwagon is getting cramped for space.<b> Leo Ryan</b>, daughter of US Congressman <b>Shannon Jo Ryan,</b> killed by cult leader <b>Jim Jones</b> in Guyana, is another prize acquisition. But though Stapleton admitted that she was attracted by Rajneesh's "vision of religion as the key to health and wholeness in mind, body and spirit", she made it clear she was just dropping by as part of her world tour. As a spiritual healer of some repute at home, Stapleton liked what she saw. Next time round, she said, she may stay longer.</li></ul><div id="tab-link-wrapper-plugin"><div class="authors__container"><div class="authors__by"><div class="authlable">Published By: </div><div class="authdetaisl">AtMigration </div></div><div class="published__on"><div class="authlable">Published On: </div><div class="authdetaisl">Nov 28, 2013 14:51 IST</div></div></div><div class="sendros">--- ENDS ---</div></div>

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Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar awarded the Padma Vibhushan

India's greatest living exponent and teacher of the sitar, Pandit Ravi Shankar, 61, now a guest professor at Viswa bharati University, Shanti niketan, was one of the two Indians awarded the Padma Vibhushan last week as part of this year's Republic Day honours.

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