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Three of the awardees person been recognised successful the ‘unsung heroes’ categories for their societal work
Shatavadhani R. Ganesh and erstwhile BJP Rajya Sabha subordinate Prabhakar B. Kore are among the 8 personalities from Karnataka to diagnostic connected the database of Padma awardees this year, announced connected the eve of Republic Day.
While Dr. Ganesh has been awarded Padma Bhushan successful the class of Art, 3 among the Padma Shri awardees- Anke Gowda M. from Mandya district, Suresh Hanagavadi from Davangere, S.G. Susheelamma from Bengaluru- person been identified arsenic “unsung heroes.”
Shatavadhani R. Ganesh
Sholar and artist, Mr. Ganesh is the lone property from Karnataka to fig successful the Padma Bhushan category. He is wide acclaimed for reviving and mastering avadhana, an past creation form.
An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Science and a pupil of Metallurgy, Dr. Ganesh, a writer successful Kannada and Sanskrit, is credited with the revival of the contented of Avadhana successful Kannada. Avadhana requires focus, attraction and alertness among different skills to constitute poesy oregon look literate challenges posed by different scholars simultaneously successful a unsocial literate event. He is besides the writer of respective works.
S.G. Susheelamma
A well-known societal activistic from Bengaluru and the driving unit down the non-profit organisation Sumangali Seva Ashrama, Ms. Susheelamma has been selected for the Padma Shri Award 2026 successful designation of her decades-long committedness to societal service. She is wide respected for her enactment with abandoned women, orphaned children and marginalised sections of society.
Ms. Susheelamma told The Hindu that she had ne'er sought accolades oregon nationalist acknowledgement for her work. She said the grant was a effect of “divine grace and the goodwill of the people”. Recalling the aboriginal days of her organisation, she said the ashram was established successful October, 1975, aft she encountered children successful urgent request of structure and care. “I decided to instrumentality work for their wellbeing, which yet led to the enactment of the institution.” The ashram has expanded its activities to see a nursery and higher superior school, big literacy initiatives, wellness check-up camps, etc.
Suresh Hanagavadi
JJM aesculapian assemblage prof and laminitis of the Karnataka Haemophilia Society (KHS), Dr. Hanagavadi began researching Haemophilia aft helium recovered that helium was suffering from the condition. He founded the KHS with the enactment of play backmost vocalist S.P. Balasubramanyam. Over the years, helium has treated respective 1000 children and adults suffering from Haemophilia.
He told reporters successful Davangere that helium was blessed that the origin of Haemophilia had been recognised astatine the nationalist level owed to the award. “After being diagnosed with the condition, I founded the nine to effort and make consciousness astir it, and beforehand further research. I lone deliberation of it arsenic my work arsenic a medicine teacher and doctor,’’ helium said.
Anke Gowda
The 75-year-old runs Pustaka Mane (House of Books) successful Haralahalli colony of Pandavapura taluk successful Mandya territory that has a postulation of much than 20 lakh books. The instauration is regarded arsenic 1 of the country’s largest idiosyncratic libraries, offering escaped entree to readers.
A publication curator and librarian, Mr. Gowda worked arsenic a autobus conductor earlier joining a sweetener mill successful Pandavapura arsenic a timekeeper, mounting speech a large information of his wage to bargain books. He not lone sold his tract successful Mysuru, but besides invested his status funds to procure books for the library. His postulation of books, which helium started erstwhile helium was 20 years old, spans literature, science, technology, mythology and philosophy, and includes uncommon humanities manuscripts dating backmost to 1832. It besides features much than 5,000 dictionaries successful aggregate languages.
Shubha Venkatesha Iyengar
A erstwhile National Aerospace Laboratory (NAL) idiosyncratic who is noted for her publication successful the improvement of DRISHTI Transmissometer, which is simply a runway visibility measuring strategy and Aviation Weather Monitoring System that has been installed successful much than 100 locations crossed the country.
Ms. Shuba joined the NAL successful 1974 arsenic a probe pupil and was a idiosyncratic successful the Material Science Division and Airport Instrument Division. She retired from the NAL successful 2020. “It is bully to enactment that our team’s publication to the state has been recognised. I privation to convey my parents for allowing maine to prosecute my higher acquisition arsenic it was precise antithetic astatine that clip for women to prosecute higher acquisition but my begetter encouraged maine to bash my PhD,” Ms. Shuba said.
Shashi Shekhar Vempati
Former Prasar Bharati Chief Executive Officer Shashi Shekhar Vempati has been selected for the Padma Shri for his contributions to media. Mr. Vempati took complaint arsenic CEO of the Prasar Bharati in June 2017 and completed a afloat five-year term. An alumnus of IIT Bombay, helium was the youngest idiosyncratic and the archetypal non-civil servant to caput Prasar Bharati since the instauration was established successful 1997.
During his tenure, helium besides served concurrently arsenic Chief Executive Officer of the Rajya Sabha betwixt August 2017 and May 2019. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Vempati had a agelong nonrecreational relation with Infosys Technologies and aboriginal pb a integer quality start-up, Niti Digital.
Prabhakar Basavprabhu Kore
Former president of the KLE Society, the 78-year-old educationist has led the KLE Society for implicit 40 years. The nine was moving 30 acquisition institutions successful 1985 erstwhile helium took over. Now, it runs 316 schools, colleges and hospitals with implicit 18,000 unit and 1.45 lakh students. Its hospitals person implicit 3,000 beds and supply tertiary specializer attraction to patients successful assorted fields of medicine.
T.T. Jagannathan (Posthumous)
Chairman emeritus of T.T.K. Prestige, Mr. Jagannathan passed distant successful Bengaluru successful October, 2025, astatine 77. He led TTK to go a marketplace person successful the tiny appliances manufacture successful the country. He was instrumental successful transforming the institution to scope a marketplace headdress of implicit 1 cardinal dollars. He was the longest-serving director/chairman successful the company’s history.
