Important Awards and Honors in December 2015

Lifetime achievement award at Asian

Business Leadership Forum 2015

Hinduja Brothers

Golden Peacock Award for Best Film at IFFI

2015

Embrace of the Serpent (Directed by

Ciro Guerra)

E-India Award

Delhi Development Authority (DDA)

ITC Sangeet Samman Award

L Subramaniam (Renowned violinist)

Indian National Bar Association's (INBA)

General Counsel of the year 2015

Pulin Kumar (Group Senior Legal and

Compliance Director of Adidas India)

'Forbes Top 100 Middle East - Global Meets

Local 2015' Award

Tech Mahindra

2015 Uttar Pradesh Ratna Award

Frank Islam (Indian-American

Entrepreneur)

Life membership of the Marylebone Cricket

Club (MCC)

Mahela Jayawardene (former Sri Lanka

Captain)

2016 Queen's Young Leaders award

Indias Kartik Sawhney and Neha

Swain

Lifetime achievement award at the Dubai

International Film Festival (DIFF)

Naseeruddin Shah (Veteran Bollywood

actor)

2015 Mailer Prize for Lifetime Achievement

Salman Rushdie
(India-born author)

2015 Aegis Graham Bell Award for

innovation in Internet of Things (IoT)

Wipro

Padma Vibhushan Award

Dilip Kumar (Legendary Bollywood

actor)

2015 South East Asian Write Award for

Singapore

Jamaludeen Mohamed Sali (Indianorigin Tamil writer)

Lifetime Achievement Award by the West

Bengal Government

Bappi Lahiri and Kumar

Sanu (Veteran music composer)

2016 Genesis Prize

Violinist Itzhak (Israeli-American)

International Artist Grand Prize

Competition-2016

K.S.Kamesh (His painting

'Amalgamation' was selected for this
prize)

Kendra Sahitya Akademi award 2015

Bibhuti Patnaik (Noted Columnist and

Novelist)
Poetry: Brajendra Kumar Brahma
(Bodo), Dhian Singh (Dogri), Ramdarash
Mishra
(Hindi), K.V. Tirumalesh (Kannada),
Kshetri Rajan (Manipuri) and Ram
Shankar
Awasthi (Sanskrit).
Short stories: Kula Saikia (Assamese),
Man Mohan Jha (Maithili), Gupta Pradhan
(Nepali), Bibhuti Pattanaik (Odia), Maya
Rahi (Sindhi) and Volga (Telugu).

Sahitya Akademi awards announces for

the year 2015

Novels: Cyrus Mistry (English),

Jaswinder Singh (Punjabi) and
MadhuAcharya
Ashawadi (Rajasthani).
Essays: Rasik Shah (Gujrati) and A.
Madhavan (Tamil).
Plays: UdayBhembre (Konkani),
RabilalTudu (Santali).
Books on criticism: Bashir Bhadarwahi
(Kashmiri) and Shamim Tariq (Urdu).
Memoirs:
ArunKhopkar (Marathi).

Miss Universe 2015

Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach (Philippines)

Miss World 2015

Mireia Lalaguna Royo (Spain)

US National Medal of Science 2015

Rakesh K Jain (Indian American)

Indian American doctor named as Ohios

first Poet Laureate

Amit Majmudar

Nominated for CK Nayudu Lifetime

Achievement Award

Syed Kirmani former Indian WicketKeeper

Winner of the prestigious award in the UK

for creating an innovative electronic smart
key system.

Nandagopal Lakshminarayanan

Topped in list of 2015 Fortune 500

Companies in India

Indian Oil Corp

Export Quality Excellence Award

CRI Pumps (11th time in row)

Selected for 51st Jnanpith Award

Raghuveer Chaudhary (Noted Gujarati

Writer)

Recorded in LIMCA book of records

Sudarsan Pattnaik (Sand artist, for

creating a 45 feet high sand Santa Claus
at Puri beach)