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2008 Padma Shri Awards
The 2008 Padma Shri Awards was distributed to 71 members of society belonging to different fields of science and engineering, arts, medicine, literature, social work, sports, etc. Some of the popular awardees were T.P. Lahane, Amit Mitra, M.C. Pant, Bholabhai Patel, etc.

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Name Field State Country
Prof. Yella Venkateswara Rao Arts Andra Pradesh India
Tom Alter Arts Tamilnadu India
Dr. Sirkazhi G. Sivachidambaram Arts Tamilnadu India
Sentila T. Yanger Arts Nagaland India
Sabitri Heisnam Arts Manipur India
Pratap Pawar Arts United Kingdom -
Pandit Gokulotsavji Maharaj Arts Madhya Pradesh India
P.K. Narayanan Nambiar Arts Kerala India
Moozhikkulam Kochukuttan Chakyar Arts Kerala India
Meenakshi Chitharanjan Arts Tamilnadu India
Shri Manoj Night Shyamalan Arts United States -
Kekoo M. Gandhy Arts Maharashtra India
Jonnalagadda Gurappa Chetty Arts Andra Pradesh India
John Martin Nelson Arts Chhattisgarh India
Jawahar Wattal Arts Delhi India
Jatin Goswami Arts Assam India
Shri Hans Raj Hans Arts Punjab India
Gennadi Mikhailovich Pechinkov Arts Russia -
Gangadhar Pradhan Arts Orissa India
Dr. Helen Giri Arts Meghalaya India
Madhuri Dixit Arts Maharashtra India
Shri Vinod Dua Journalism Delhi India
Rajdeep Sardesai Journalism Delhi India
Barkha Dutt Journalism Delhi India
Dr. Vellayani Arjunan Literature & Education Kerala India
Surjya Kanta Hazarika Literature & Education Assam India
Prof. Sukhadeo Thorat Literature & Education Delhi India
Dr. Srinivas Udgata Literature & Education Orissa India
Dr. Nirupam Bajpai Literature & Education United States -
Bholabhai Patel Literature & Education Gujarat India
Balasubramanian Sivanthi Adithan Literature & Education Tamilnadu India
Prof. Amitabh Mattoo Literature & Education Jammu and Kashmir India
Dr. M. Leelavathy Literature & Education Kerala India
Dr. Bina Agarwal Literature & Education Delhi India
Prof. (Dr.) K.S. Nisar Ahmed Literature & Education Karnataka India
Dr. Tony Fernandez Medicine Kerala India
Dr. Shyam Narayan Aryar Medicine Bihar India
Dr. Randhir Sud Medicine Delhi India
Dr. Raman Kapur Medicine Delhi India
Dr. Rakesh Kumar Jain Medicine Uttarakhand India
Dr. Keiki R. Mehta Medicine Maharashtra India
Dr. Indu Bhushan Sinha Medicine Bihar India
Dr. Deepak Sehgal Medicine Delhi India
Dr. A. Jayanta Kumar Singh Medicine Manipur India
Dr. Malvika Sabharwal Medicine Delhi India
Prof. (Dr.) Surendra Singh Yadav Medicine Delhi India
Prof. (Dr.) Dinesh K. Bhargava Medicine Delhi India
Prof. (Dr.) C.U. Velmurugendran Medicine Tamilnadu India
Prof. (Dr.) Arjunan Rajasekaran Medicine Tamilnadu India
Dr. Mohan Chandra Pant Medicine Uttar Pradesh India
Haji Kaleem Ullah Khan Others Uttar Pradesh India
Colette Mathur Public Affairs Switzerland -
Bhavarlal Hiralal Jain Science & Engineering Maharashtra India
Dr. Sant Singh Virmani Science & Engineering - United States
Dr. Joseph H. Hulse Science & Engineering Canada -
Vikramjit Singh Sahney Social Work Delhi India
V.R. Gowrishankar Social Work Karnataka India
M.A. Yousuf Ali Social Work UAE, Kerala India
Kailash Chandra Agrawal Social Work Rajasthan India
Dr. Kshama Metre Social Work Himachal Pradesh India
Dr. Sheela Barthakur Social Work Assam India
Madan Mohan Sabharwal Social Works Delhi India
Dr. Kutikuppala Surya Rao Social Works Andra Pradesh India
Sister Karuna Mary Braganza Social Works Maharashtra India
Bula Chowdhury Chakraborty Sports West Bengal India
Bhaichung Bhutia Sports Sikkim India
Dr. Amit Mitra Trade & Industry Delhi India



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