Padma Bhushan

This awards recognizes distinguished service of a higher order to the nation in any field. This is a civilian award given by the President of India.On the basis of the recommendations of the Awards Committee, and after approval of the Home Minister, Prime Minister and President, the Padma Awards are announced. he fields include services by the government servants and it can be given posthumously, as well.

List of Awardees - 2009

Name	Field	State	Country
G. Sivarama Krishna Murthy	Arts	Andhra Pradesh	India
R. C. Mehta	Arts	Gujarat	India
Shamshad Begum	Arts	Maharashtra	India
V. P. Dhananjayan	Arts	Tamil Nadu	India
Shanta Dhananjayan	Arts	Tamil Nadu	India
Dr. Vaidyanathan Ganapathi Sthapati	Art	Tamil Nadu	India
S.K. Misra	Civil Service	Haryana	India
Shekhar Gupta	Journalism	Delhi	India
Alappat Sreedhara Menon	Literature & Education	Kerala	India
C.K. Prahalad	Literature & Education
D. Jayakanthan	Literature & Education	Tamil Nadu	India
Isher Judge Ahluwalia	Literature & Education	Delhi	India
Kunwar Narayan	Literature & Education	Delhi	India
Minoru Hara	Literature & Education		Japan
Ramachandra Guha	Literature & Education	Karnataka	India
Brijendra Kumar Rao	Medicine	Delhi	India
Vaidya Devendra Triguna	Medicine	Delhi	India
Khalid Hameed	Medicine
Satish Nambiar	National Security Affairs	Delhi	India
Inderjit Kaur Barthakur	Public Affairs	Meghalaya	India
Kirit Shantilal Parikh	Public Affairs	Delhi	India
Bhakta B. Rath	Science & Engineering
Conjeevaram Srirangachari Seshadri	Science & Engineering	Tamil Nadu	India
Gurdip Singh Randhawa	Science & Engineering	Delhi	India
Sam Pitroda	Science & Engineering	Delhi	India
Sarvagya Singh Katiyar	Science & Engineering	Uttar Pradesh	India
Thomas Kailath	Science & Engineering	Kerala	India
Naganath Nayakawadi	Social Work	Maharashtra	India
Sarojini Varadappan	Social Work	Tamil Nadu	India
Abhinav Bindra	Sports	Punjab	India
Anil Manibhai Naik	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra	India