President Pranab Mukherjee presented Padma awards,
including one Padma Vibhushan, 11 Padma Bhushan and 44 Padma Shri awards at a
Civil Investiture Ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 26th April, 2014.
Leading Yoga exponent BKS Iyenger was given Padma
Vibhushan, while noted author Ruskin Bond and tennis star Leander Paes were
among the Padma Bhushan winners.
The other Padma Bhushan winners are: Dr MB
Dr Dhirubhai Premshanker Thaker was awarded Padma
Bhushan posthumously.
Ms Anita Desai (Padma Bhushan) and cricketer Yuvraj
Singh and Sushil Das (both Padma Shri) were not present at the award ceremony.
The Padma Shri winners are : Film actor Paresh
Rawal, Mohammed Ali Baig, Musafir Ram Bhardwaj, Prof (Dr) Indira Chakravarty, M
Chandradathan, Anjum Chopra, Dr Narendra Achyut Dabholkar (Posthumous), Keki N
Daruwalla, Sunil Das, Supriya Devi, Love Rai Singh Dharmshaktu, Pandit Vijay
Ghate, Prof Jayanta Kumar Ghosh, Mukul Chandra Goswami, Dr (Prof) Rajesh Kumar
Grover, Dr Amod Gupta, Prof Ramakrishna Vijatacharya Hosur, Prof (Dr) Thenumgal
Paulose Jacob, Manorama Jaffa, Durga Jain, Prof Hakim Syed Khaleefathullah, Dr
Lalit Kumar, Prof (Dr) Sangaku Mayeda, Ram Mohan, Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee.
Dr Nitish Naik, Dr S
Subhadra Nair, Rani Karnaa Nayak, Dr Narendra Kumar Pandey, Dr Ajay Parida, H
Boniface Prabhu, Dr Malapaka Yejneswara Satyanarayan Prasad, Dr Ashok Rajgopal,
Dr Anumolu Sriramarao, Dr Kamini A Rao, Prof Kalamandalam Sathyabhama,
Mathurbhai Madhabhai Savani, Dr Hasmukh Chimanlal Shah, Dr Brahama Singh, Prof
Dinesh Singh, Yuvraj Singh, Santosh Sivan, Mamta Sodha, Mallika Srinivasan, Dr
Govindan Sunderajan, Parveen Talha and Prof (Dr) Mahesh Verma are the other
Padma Shri winners. 
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