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Award and Prizes
Award and Prizes
D Professor Parpola will receive a cash prize of Rs. 10 lakh, a citation and a memento during the World Classical Tamil Conference to be held in Coimbatore in June.
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Srimanta award for Borgohain and Sharmila
D The Assam government has decided to confer the coveted Srimanta Sankaradeva Award to noted journalist and writer Homen Borgohain for the year 2007 in recognition of his significant contribution to journalism and literature and noted actor Sharmila Tagore in the fields of art and culture for the year 2008. Prime Minister Manmohan Sin gh would present the awards at a function in the city tentatively fixed for April 23, said an official release .
Bhushan. D Other Padma Bhushan awardees were: cardiologist B.M. Hegde, nuclear sc ientist Bikash Sinha, historian Bipin Chandra, kathak exponent Kumudini Lakhia, panchavadya exponent Kuzhur Narayana Marar, versatile artiste Mallika Sarabhai, banker N. Vaghul, eye specialist Noshir Minoo Shroff, music composer Shrinivas Khale, sarangi pl ayer Ustad Sultan Khan and ayurveda practitioner E.T. Narayanan Mooss. D Nemai Ghosh, , music exponent Shobha Raju, environment activist Ranjit Bhargava, TVS Motor Company Chairman Venu Srinivasan, businessmen Irshad Mirza, Kapil Mohan (trade and industry), founder of Nirma Karsanbhai Patel were among those who received the Padma Shri.
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Adiseshiah Trust. The award, consisting of Rs. 2 lakh in cash and a citation, would be presented on November 21.
Fiction prize for 2010 the first time that an Indian work has accomplished the feat. D One of the most popular works in Bengali literature in the 1960s, Chowringhee, is about a myriad of characters that people a popular hotel, Shahjahan, in the city's Champs Elysees of the times, as seen from the eyes of a clerk who works there.
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