Awards & Honours 2015

Baileys Women Prize - UK author Ali Smith for her Novel 'How To Be Both' !
Kamal Bawa- Elected To London based 'Royal Society'

1.) Maharashtra Bhushan

Award - Babasaheb Purandare (historian)
2.) Dhyan Chand Award - TPP Nair, SP Misra, Romeo James
3.) Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna- Sania Mirza
4.) Arjuna Awards1. Naib Subedar Sandeep Kumar (Archery)
2. MR Poovamma (Athletics)
3. K. Srikanth (Badminton)
4. Mandeep Jangra (Boxing)
5. Rohit Sharma (Cricket)
6. Dipa Karmakar (Gymnastic)
7. Sreejesh PR (Hockey)
8. Manjeet Chhillar (Kabaddi)
9. Abhilasha Shashikant Mhatre (Kabaddi)
10. Sawarn Singh (Rowing)
11. Anup Kumar Yama (Roller Skating)
12. Jitu Rai (Shooting)
13. S Sathish Kumar (Weightlifting)
14. Bajrang (Wrestling)
15. Babita Kumari (Wrestling)
16. Yumnam Sanathoi Devi (Wushu)
17. Sharath M Gayakwad (Para-Swimming)

5.) Gujar Mal Modi award for Innovative Science and

Technology - Mustansir Barma
6.) PATWA 2015 award- Parulekar
7.) Bharat Bharti literary award- Kashinath Singh ( Hindi
litterateur )
- Uttar Pradesh's highest literary award
8.) Pritiman Sarkar Award- The Film Society of Jodhpur
9.) Golden Peacock environment management awardKrishnapatnam Port in Andhra Pradesh
10.) Moorti Devi Award - Vishwanath Tripathi (writer)
11.) G D Birla Award - Sanjeev Galande
12.) UN Public Service Award- Nadia, West Bengal - for
eliminating open defecation in the district.
13.) Sahitya Akademi announced Bhasha Samman for
classical and medieval literature 1. K Meenakshi Sundaram
2. Acharya Munishwar Jha
3. Charu Chandra Pande and Mathuradutt Mathpal
14.) Sangitha Kalanidhi award for music- Sanjay
Subrahmanyam (vocalist)
15.) 10th Navlekhan Award - Babusha Kohli and Upasana
( Hindi writers )
16.) Dadasaheb Phalke Award - Shashi Kapoor (actor)
17.) Saraswati Samman- Veerappa Moily
18.) Yash Bharti Samman - Vinod Mehta
( journalist and writer )

19.) DSC Prize- Jhumpa Lahiri

( Indian - American author )
20.) Vyas Samman for hindi literature - Dr Kamal Kishore
Goyanka
21.) Ramon Magsaysay Awardees(So called Asias Nobel Prize)
1. Sanjiv Chaturvedi, India ( for investigating corruption in
public office )
2. Anshu Gupta, India ( for his creative vision in
transforming the culture of giving in India )
3. Kommaly Chanthavong, Laos
4. Ligaya Fernando-Amilbangsa, the Philippines
5. Kyaw Thu, Myanmar
22.) James Tait Black award- Zia Haider Rahman
( Bangladesh novelist )
23.) Peter Mackler Award- Zaina Erhaim
( Syrian woman journalist )
24.) Germany's Cross of Order of the MeritRaghavendra Gadagkar ( Indian sociobiologist )
25.) Poland's Solidarity Prize - Zhanna Nemtsova ( for
championing democracy and human rights )
26.) Champions of Change - Sunita Viswanath ( for her
work to encourage Hindus to take care of the environment
)
27.) Grand Prix World Press Cartoon- Pamarthy Shankar
( Telugu cartoonist )
28.) Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize - Ramachandra Guha
( Historian )

29.) Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) award in the

Heritage & Culture category - Muziris Heritage Project
(MHP)
30.) Bangladesh Liberation War award- Atal Behari
Vajpayee
31.) French Civilian Award Commandeur de la Lgion
dHonneur (the Legion of Honour)- Sayed Haider ( Noted
artist )
32.) World Food Prize- Fazle Hasan Abed
(Bangladesh)
33.) Best original screenplay in a Foreign Language award
at the Madrid International Film Festival- Buddha In A
Traffic Jam
34.) Frost and Sullivans Economic Development
Innovation Award- Make in India initiative of DIPP
35.) US Presidential Award- Darshan Jain ( for Excellence
in Mathematics and Science )
36.) GCHERA ( Global Confederation for Higher Education
Associations ) World Agriculture Prize- R. Paul Singh
37.) Columbias highest civilian award Orden de la
Democracia Simon Bolivar en el grado de cruz Caballero
(Order of the Democracy Simon Bolivar)- Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar
38.) Space Pioneer Award - ISRO
( for Mars Orbiter Mission )
39.) Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction- Kamal Bawa
( Ecologist )
40.) Japan's highest civilian award- C N R Rao ( for his
outstanding contributions to science and Indo-Japanese
science cooperation )

41.) RedInk Lifetime Achievement Award - Prannoy Roy

( executive co-chairman of NDTV )
42.) Encore Award - Neel Mukherjee
( for his novel The Lives of Others )
43.) Cano World Press Freedom Prize- Mazen Darwish
( Syrian journalist and rights activist )
44.) Man Booker International Prize - Laszlo Krasznahorkai
(Hungarian writer)
45.) National Geographic Bee competition - Karan Menon
(14-year-old)