Talk:Padma Bhushan

M. L. Vasanthakumari
The above cites this award as being 2nd highest; here it is referred to as third. Where can I look? Thanks! --Stormbay 03:46, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
 * It is third highest and comes after Bharat Ratna and Padma Vibhushan

Ganesh Kumar
2008 Padmabhusan list is not complete.

Here is the complete list:

Mian Bashir Ahmed		Public Affairs Shiv Nadar			Information Technology Inderjit Kaur			Social Work P. Susheela			Arts Lal Shukla			Literature & Education Amarnath Sehgal (Posthumous)	Arts Ustad Asad Ali Khan		Arts Ustad Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar	Arts Prof. Sushil Kumar Saxena	Arts Chandrshekhar Dasgupta		Civil Service K Padmanabhiah 			Civil Service V Ramachandran			Civil Service Prof Brijinder Nath Goswamy	Literature & Education Prof Ji Xianlin (China)		Literature & Education Prof Kaushik Basu (USA)		Literature & Education Prof. (Smt.) Padma Desai (USA)	Literature & Education Ravindra Kelekar		Literature & Education Dr (Smt.) Shayama Chona		Literature & Education Dr Srinivasa SR Varadhan	Literature & Education Prof TK Oommen			Literature & Education Prof (Dr) Jagjit Singh Chopra	Medicine Prof Nirmal Kumar Ganguly	Medicine Lord Meghnad Desai		Public Affairs Yuli Mikhailovitch Vorontsov (Posthumous)	Public Affairs Prof Asis Datta			Science & Engineering. Prof. Sukh Dev			Science & Engineering. Sunita Williams			Science & Engineering. Vasant Gowarikar		Science & Engineering. D. R. Mehta			Social Work Dominique Lapierre (France)	Social Work Suresh Kumar Neotia		Trade & Industry Baba Neelkanth Kalyani		Trade & Industry K. V. Kamath			Trade & Industry Vikram Pandit 			Trade & Industry Jasdev Singh 			Commentary and broadcasting

I am not able to update this in wikipedia...Can anybody update this please? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.234.200.70 (talk) 21:27, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Padma is Sanskrit for lotus I think. Secretlondon (talk) 18:20, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Article Too Long!
This article is too long! I suggest splitting this page into several pages with each page containing awardees decade-wise. Jovianeye (talk) 00:10, 14 December 2009 (UTC)


 * I have created new pages containing awardees decade-wise Jovianeye (talk) 19:56, 30 December 2009 (UTC)