This year the government has selected 13 Muslims in the list of 106 persons selected for the Padma Awards. Though every year a few classical musicians and artists amongst Muslims get the award, the good thing is that this year women from different spheres, scientists, doctors are included in this list.
Obaid Siddiqui of Karnataka was amongst the nine persons who got the highest of Padma Awards viz. Padma Vibhushan in the field of Science and Technology.
Ustad Abdul Halif Jafar Khan and Ghulam Mustafa Khan got the Padma Bhushan for art. Ustad Sabri Khan also got it in the field of art amongst the 36 who in all got Padma Bhushan.
Of the 61 who got Padma Shree, the journalist Fatma Rafiq Zakaria (mother of celebrit journo Farid Zakaria, editor of Newsweek), Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman (UP) in the field of medicine, Mahmooda Ali Shah, Dr Ahtesham Husain, Mahmood Dhaulpuri, Ustad Rashid Khan, beautician Shahnaz Husain, Tennis star Sania Mirza and Qatar’s Sheikh Abdul Rahman.
Source: http://indianmuslims.in/13-muslims-get-padma-awards/
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