General Knowledge - Honours and Awards - Discussion

1st award 1995 to Jaga Nath. A/C to Wikipedia.

J.R.D Tata is the answer because he is Rajiv Gandhi brother.

Former recipients of the award include Mother Teresa, Shenai maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan, Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh, Hiteswar Saikia (former Assam Chief Minister) and Subhadra Joshi (jointly), Lata Mangeshkar, Sunil Dutt, Jagan Nath Kaul, Dilip Kumar and author Kapila Vatsyayan, Wahiuddin Khan(Islamic scholar), Kiran Seth(founder of SPIC MACAY) (2011). Other recipients are civil society activists Teesta Setalvad and Harsh Mander (jointly), S N Subbarao, Swami Agnivesh and Madari Moideen (jointly), former President K R Narayanan, Nirmala Deshpande, Hem Dutta (2007), N Radhakrishnan and Gautam Bhai.

Year Recipients Notes
1996 Lata Mangeshkar singer
1998 Sunil Dutt Peace activist, politician
2000 Kapila Vatsyayan Scholar
2003 S. N. Subba Rao Peace activist
2004 Swami Agnivesh Social activist
2006 Nirmala Deshpande Social activist
2007 Hem Dutta Social activist
2008 N Radhakrishnan Social activist
2009 Gautam Bhai social activist
2010 Wahiduddin Khan Islamic scholar, peace activist
2011 SPIC MACAY Promotes Indian classical music and culture among the youth
2012 D. R. Mehta Work through Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti, Jaipur
2013 Amjad Ali Khan
2014 Muzaffar Ali Filmmaker, social worker and sufi poet