![]() ![]() She wins a Padma Shri for her contribution in Literature and Education.Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (born 10 January 1940) is an Indian playback singer and musician who sings Indian classical, devotional and film songs. ![]() The popular writer was born in Aurangabad in Maharashtra and has written over 41 books in Hindi and Marathi. Madhya Pradesh's Malti Joshi won the award in Literature and Education category. She is a also former Rajya Sabha member and wife of former Assam chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta.ġ4. She has penned over a dozen of books including novels and non-fiction. Writer from Assam, Joyshree Goswami Mahanta wins Padma award for literature and education category. She has earlier received many prestigious awards including Sant Kabir Award in Handloom for promoting and preserving traditional way of making clothes.ġ3. ![]() Manipur's traditional weaver Langpoklakpam Subadani Devi won Padma Shri in art and weaving category. She is the second woman from India to win gold medal at the Senior World Weightlifting Championships after Karnam Malleswari.ġ2. Her claim to fame came last year when she won the gold in the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships held in the United States. Mainipur's weight-lifter Saikhom Mirabai Chanu wins Padma Shri in Sports-Weightlifting category. 98-year-old V Nanammal, India's oldest yoga teacher, who still practices and teaches 100 students daily in Tamil Nadu gets the Padma award this year.ġ1. Nouf Marwaai, the first yoga instructor of Saudi Arabia, played an instrumental role in legalising yoga in her country. Karnataka's social worker Sitavva Joddati champions women development and empowerment, especially 'Devadasis' and Dalits.ĩ. Social worker Lentina Ao Thakkar is a Gandhian who has served for decades at a Gandhi Ashram in Nagaland.Ĩ. Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan, an acclaimed Tamil folk exponent, who has dedicated her life towards collection, documentation and preservation of Tamil folk and tribal music is a Padma Shri now.ħ. She gets Padma Shri for her social work in the state.Ħ. Nonagenarian farm labourer Sulagatti Narasamma provides midwifery services in backward regions of Karnataka without any medical facility. Ms Lakshmikutty teaches at the Kerala Folklore Academy and lives in a hut in a tribal settlement in a forest.ĥ. She is the only tribal woman from her area to attend school way back in the 1950s. Lakshmikutty, a tribal woman from Kerala, who prepares 500 herbal medicines from memory and has helped several people bitten by snakes and insects, is among the Padma awardees. ![]()
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