1983: Presented by Shri Ajit Kumar Panja
(Former Minister of Information and Broadcasting)
Udayan Sharma (Hindi)
Fatima Zakaria (English)
Ishrat Ali Siddiqui (Urdu)
V.K.N. Kutty (Malayalam)
1984: Presented by Shri Ajit Kumar Panja
(Former Minister of Information and Broadcasting)
Abhay Chhajlani(Hindi)
M.J. Akbar (English)
Rais Faridi (Urdu)
Sumit Singh (Posthumously- Punjab)
1985: Presented by Dr. Shanker Dayal Sharma
(Former President of India)
Rajendra Mathur (Hindi)
Sham Lal (English)
Abud Ali Khan (Urdu)
Sagarmoy Ghos (Bengali)
1986: Presented by Dr. Shanker Dayal Sharma
(Former President of India)
Ram Sharan Joshi (Hindi)
Khushwant Singh (English)
Manorama dewan (Urdu)
Valampuri John (Tamil)
1987: Presented by Shri H.K.L. Bhagat
(Former Minister of Information and Broadcasting)
Bhishm Sahni (Hindi)
Kuldip Nayar (English)
Mohan Chiragi (Urdu)
C. Narayana Reddy (Telugu)
Ghulam Rasool Nazki (Kashmiri)
Gurucharan Singh (Punjabi)
Media Storm (Media)
Jan Natya Manch (Valuntary Organisation)
1988: Presented by Shri P. Upendra
(Former Minister of I and B and Parliamentry Affairs)
Surendra Pratap Singh (Hindi)
Anees Jung (English)
Ahmed Said Malihabadi (Urdu)
Atma Ram Narain Desai (Gujarati)
Syed Abdul Malik(Assamese)
Arun Sadhu (Marathi)
U.R. Anant Murthy(Kannada)
Sharad Dutt (Media)
Sampradayikta Virodhi Samiti
(Voluntary Orgasnisation)
1989: Presented by Shri Subodh Kant Sahay
(Former Minister of I and B and Home Affairs)
Geetesh Sharma (Hindi)
H.K. Dua (English)
Shahid Siddiqui (Urdu)
Harin Dave (Gujarati)
Ramakant Rath (Oriya)
Avtar Singh Pash (Punjab)
P. Venkateshwara Rao (Telugu)
Rahi Masoom Raza (Media)
Habib Tanveer (Naya Theatre)
(Voluntary Organisation)
1990: Presented by Shri Ajit Kumar Panja
(Former Minister of Information and Broadcasting)
S. Asghar Wajahat (Hindi)
Asghar Ali Engineer (English)
Dewan Berindranath (Urdu)
Cho Ramaswamy (Tamil)
Barun Sen Gupta (Bengali)
B.K. Bhattacharya (Assamese)
Padma Sachdev (Dogri)
Nalini Singh (Media)
Bhagat Puran Singh (Voluntary Organisation)
1991: Presented by Sari P.V. Narasimha Rao
(Former Prime Minister of India)
Alok Mehta (Hindi)
Nikhil Chakravarty (English)
Mehboob Hussain Jigar (Urdu)
V.M.K. Kutty (Malayalam)
Narayan Surve (Marathi)
D.N. Bezboruah (Assamese)
Fazil Kashmiri (Kashmiri)
Kamleshwar (Media)
Govind Bhai Shroff (Voluntary Organisation)
1992: Presented by Shari Mulayam Singh Yadav
(Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh)
Prabhash Joshi (Hindi)
Praful Bidwai (English)
Mohmood Ayubi (Urdu)
Gaurkishore Ghosh (Bengali)
N. Ramamohan Rao (Telugu)
P. Lankesh (Kannada)
Bhartruhari Mahtab (Oriya)
Saeed Naqvi (Media)
Rajinder Johar (Voluntary Organisation)
1993: Presented by Revernd Mother Teresa
K.L. Nandan (Hindi)
Balraj Puri (English)
Fuzail Jaffrey (Marathi)
K.M. Mathew (Malayalam)
Hari Motwani (Sindhi)
Ashokamitran (Tamil)
Arun Kaul (Media)
Bharatiya Patita Uddhar Sabha (Voluntary Organisation)
1994: Presented by Shri H.D. Deve Gowda
(Former Prime Minister of India)
Rajendra Yadav (Hindi)
Iqbal Masud(English)
Nida Fazil (Urdu)
Sitanshu Yashchandra (Gujrati)
Shudra Srinivas (Kannada)
Jayanta Mahaptra(Oriya)
Abdul Rahaman Rahi (Kashmiri)
Rais Mirza (Media)
Baba Amte (Voluntary Organisation)
1995: Presented by Shri Dilip Kumar
(Veteran Film Actor)
Manohar Shyam Joshi (Hindi)
Seema Mustafa (English)
Jamna Das Akhtar (Urdu)
A.B.K. Prasad (Telugu)
Radhika Mohan Bhagawati (Assamese)
Mustafa Siraj (Bengali)
Barjinder Singh (Punjabi)
Vinod Dua (Electronic Media)
H.D. Shourie (Voluntary Organisation)
1996: Presented by Justice M.N. Venkatachaliah
(Chairman, National Human Rights Commission)
Uday Prakash (Hindi)
D.R. Goyal (English)
Shahid Ali Khan (Urdu)
O.N.V. Kurup (Malayalam)
Ramachandran Vanna Nilavan (Tamil)
Nikhil Mangesh Wagla (Marathi)
Nilamer Dev Sharma (Dogri)
Rajdeep Saradesai (Electronic Media)
Mumtaz Ali (Voluntary Organisation)
1997: Presented by Shri N. Ram
(Editor- Frontline)
Dr. Shanhu Nath Singh (Hindi)
Teesta Setalvad (English)
Kashmiri Lal Zakir (Urdu)
Father Valles (Gujarati)
H.S. Doreswamy (Kannada)
Chitta Ranjan Das (Oriya)
Moti Lal Kemmu (Kashmiri)
Anand Patwardhan (Electronic Media)
Gharib Nawaz Mahila Avam Bal Kalyan Samiti
(Voluntary Organisation)
1998: Presented by Shri Shekhar Gupta
(Editor – in –Chief The Indian Express, New Delhi)
Jai Shankar Gupta (Hindi)
Dr. Mushirul Hasan (English)
Parwana Rudaulvi (Urdu)
Harbhajan Singh Halwarvi (Punjabi)
Chakravartula Raghavachari (Telugu)
Homen Borgohain (Assamese)
Nabneeta Dev Sen (Bengali)
Simi Grewal (Electronic Media)
Centre for Study of Society and Secularism
(Voluntary Organisation)
Barkha Dutt (Special Award for Kargil Coverge)
Gaurav C. Sawant (Special Award for Kargil Coverage)
1999: Presented by S. Kultar Singh
(Younger Brother of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Ex Minister of State U.P.)
Krishna Sobti (Hindi)
Sabrang Communication and Publishing Pvt. Ltd.
Voluntary Organisation
2000: Presented by Sri Sri Ravi Shankerji
N. Ram, Editor, “Frontline”
Bal Ashram (Voluntary Organisation)
2001-2002: Presented by His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Shri Rajeev Balwant Sabade, Associate Editor, Daily
“Sakal” (Maharashtra)
Shri Abdul Sattar Edhi, Trust” (Karachi, Pakistan)
Dr. Mubarak Ali, Activist/ Writer (Pakistan)
Shri Brij Bedi / Master Ajit Singh (Citizen Forum Vidya Mandir) NGO, Amritsar
2003: Presented by Smt. Sheila Dikshit, Hon’ble Chief Minister, Delhi
Shri Lok Raj Baral (NCCS, Nepal)
Shri Dill Choudhary (Voluntary Organisation)
2003-2004: Presented by Shri Somnath Chatterjee
(Speaker, Lok Sabha, India)
Ramachandra Murthy (Telgu)
Selina Hossain (Bangla)
Judith Keller-Sangeeta J.K. (“Kiran”, NGO)
Laila Arzumand Banu (VO, Bangladesh) |
