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  • Five include Chinna Jeeyar from Telangana, Andhra receive Padma Awards

    Five include Chinna Jeeyar from Telangana, Andhra receive Padma Awards

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    Hyderabad: Spiritual leaders Swami Chinna Jeeyar and Kamlesh D Patel, music director M. M. Keeravaani, linguist B. Ramakrishna Reddy and social worker Sankurathi Chandra Sekhar from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have been awarded Padma awards.

    The President had approved the conferment of 106 Padma awards, including three duo cases (in a duo case, the award is counted as one), on the eve of this year’s Republic Day.

    Tridandi Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji:

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    President Droupadi Murmu presents Padma Bhushan to His Holiness Tridandi Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji for Spiritualism. He is spreading the Vedic values and vision of the Vaishnava lineage of Sri Ramanujacharya.

    Dr Modadugu Vijay Gupta:

    President presented Padma Shri to Dr Modadugu Vijay Gupta for Science & Engineering. He has worked for the empowerment of rural women and landless people in developing countries through simple, low-cost fish farming technologies that he has developed.

    Kamlesh D. Patel:

    President presented Padma Bhushan to Kamlesh D. Patel for Spiritualism. He is the founder of the Heartfulness Movement, and has developed Kanha Shanti Vanam, which is home to one of the world’s largest meditation centres.

    Dr Hanumantha Rao Pasupuleti:

    President presented Padma Shri to Dr Hanumantha Rao Pasupuleti for Medicine. A doctor and social worker from Hyderabad, he has been working for the rehabilitation and empowerment of divyangjans.

    linguist B. Rama Krishna Reddy:

    B Ramakrishna Reddy received Padma Shri for Literature & Education. He has been a former Professor of linguistics. His interpretation and commentary on tribal data have inspired many scholars to work on tribal languages.



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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Chinna Jeeyar, Daaji, Keeravaani among Padama awardees from Telangana, AP

    Chinna Jeeyar, Daaji, Keeravaani among Padama awardees from Telangana, AP

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    Hyderabad: Spiritual leaders Swami Chinna Jeeyar and Kamlesh D Patel, music director M. M. Keeravaani, linguist B. Ramakrishna Reddy and social worker Sankurathi Chandra Sekhar are among the personalities from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh who have been awarded Padma awards this year for their contributions in their respective fields.

    Both Padma Bhushan awardees are from Telangana. Swami Chinna Jeeyar and Patel have been conferred the honour for their contributions in the field of spiritualism.

    Three personalities from Telangana also figure in the list of Padma Shri awardees. Seven personalities from Andhra Pradesh have been conferred Padma Shri.

    Sri Tridandi Srimannarayana Ramanuja Chinna Jeeyar Swami is religious leader known for his spiritual discourses on Vaishnavism. The 66-year-old was born in Andhra Pradesh and has his ashram on the outskirts of Hyderabad.

    He is the designer and planner of the Statue of Equality, a 216-feet tall statue of 11th century social reformer and saint Ramanujacharya. The statue, said to be the world’s second largest statue in a sitting position, was unveiled at Chinna Jeeyar’s ashram by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in February last year.

    Patel, fondly called ‘Daaji’m is the fourth in lineage of the Gurus of Shri Ram Chandra Mission that propounds the Sahaj Marg system of Raj Yoga meditation.

    Since taking charge as the President of Shri Ram Chandra Mission, Daaji has also been steering the tenets of the organisation.

    He also founded Heartfulness – an organiaation that is bringing the unique meditation practice through ‘Pranahuti’ – an age-old technique revived by the early Gurus of Sri Ram Chandra Mission – closer to mankind and making meditation an accessible and free of cost practice.

    Popular Tollywood music director M. M. Keeravani is among Padma Shri awardees from Andhra Pradesh. The 61-year-old composer on January 12 received Golden Globe award for best original song “Naatu Naatu” from S.S. Rajamouli’s blockbuster “RRR”. The song has also received an Oscar nomination in the best original song category.

    The Padma Shri awardees from Telangana are B Ramakrishna Reddy (literature/education), Modadugu Vijay Gupta (science and engineering), and Hanmantha Rao Pasupuleti (medicine).

    Ramakrishna Reddy, an 80-year-old linguistics professor from Telangana, made immense contributions towards preservation of tribal and southern languages like Kuvi, Manda, and Kui. He built a cultural bridge connecting tribal languages with other languages. He drafted Manda-English dictionary and Kuvi-Oriya-English dictionary while also co-authoring five books towards this cause.

    The Padma Shri awardees from Andhra Pradesh are Ganesh Nagappa Krishnarajanagara (engineering), Keeravaani (Arts), Abbareddy Nageswara Rao (science/engineering), Kota Satchidananda Sastry (arts), Sankurathri Chandra Sekhar (social worker), C.V. Raju (Arts) and Prakash Chandra Sood (literature and education).

    Sekhar is a Kakinada-based social worker who dedicated his life to providing free medical and education services to needy people. After losing his wife and two children in the Air India Kanishka bombing, he channelised his grief into a lifelong commitment towards betterment of society. He was instrumental in the treatment of over 3 lakh eye patients with 90 per cent surgeries free. He also provided free education to more than 3,500 children from economically weaker sections

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )