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2008 Padma Bhushan Awardees
2008 Padma Bhushan Awardees are always considered as great talents in their respective fields.
 The Padma Bhushan Award is well known to be one of the most prestigious and honourable civilian awards presented in India. The award was incepted in the year 1954 by the Government of India to recognise extraordinary talents in various fields and also to appreciate their achievements. The Government has since been presenting the award on a regular basis, except a gap of 2 years from 13th July 1977 to 26th January, 1980. The award is presented to both the Indian citizens and foreigners as recognition of their great achievements in their respective fields. 33 people received the Padma Bhushan Award in the year 2008.

A list of the 2008 Padma Bhushan Awardees is given below:























Name Field State Country
Asad Ali Khan Arts Delhi India
Amarnath Sehgal Arts Delhi India
P. Susheela Arts Andhra Pradesh India
Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar Arts Delhi India
Sushil Kumar Saxena Arts Delhi India
K. Padmanabhiah Civil Service Delhi India
V. Ramachandran Civil Service Kerala India
Name Field State Country
Srinivasa S.R. Varadhan Literature & Education - USA
Padma Desai Literature & Education - USA 
Shayama Chona Literature & Education Delhi India
Brijinder Nath Goswamy Literature & Education Chandigarh India
Ji Xianlin Literature & Education - China
Kaushik Basu Literature & Education - USA
Srilal Shukla Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh India
Ravindra Kelekar Literature & Education Goa India
T. K. Oommen Literature & Education Haryana India
Jagjit Singh Chopra Medicine Chandigarh India
Jasdev Singh Others Delhi India
Mian Bashir Ahmed Public Affairs Jammu and Kashmir India
Meghnad Desai Public Affairs - United Kingdom
Yuli Mikhailovich Vorontsov Public Affairs Moscow Russia
Asis Datta Science & Engineering Delhi India
Sukh Dev Science & Engineering Delhi India
Sunita Williams Science & Engineering - USA
Vasant Gowarikar Science & Engineering Maharashtra India
Inderjit Kaur Social Work Punjab India
D. R. Mehta Social Work Rajasthan India
Dominique Lapierre Social Work - France
Baba Neelkanth Kalyani Trade & Industry Maharashtra India
K. V. Kamath Trade & Industry Karnataka India
Shiv Nadar Trade & Industry Tamil Nadu India
Suresh Kumar Neotia Trade & Industry Delhi India
Vikram Pandit Trade & Industry - USA


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