NEW YORK,NY-TV Asia Chairman and CEO H.R. Shah, sitar and surbahar player and composer Imrat Khan; and MIT professor and CEO of edX Anant Agarwal are among 75 Padma Shri awardees, announced by President Pranab Mukherjee on India’s Republic Day on Jan. 26.The Indian-Americans are the only Non Resident Indians on this year’s list.Rest of the 72 recipients are from India. Shah,was awarded the Padma Shri for his contribution...
to literature, education and journalism. He has lived in the US for 46 years.
Originally from Bahadarpur, Gujarat, Shah is also chairman of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (USA), an institution dedicated to literature, culture, education, music and arts. He is the recipient of the 2005 Ellis Island Medal of Honor. Shah is also the director of the Indian American Center for Political Awareness (USA).
“I am deeply humbled, honored and overjoyed that the Republic of India has decided to confer on me the Padma Shri in recognition of my work for more than 35 years,” Shah said. He expressed his gratitude to his family, friends and well-wishers. Khan, who spends most of his time in St. Louis, MO, received the award for his contribution to the arts and music. The younger brother of sitar maestro Ustad Vilayat Khan, was born in Calcutta into a family of musicians tracing its pedigree back for several generations, to the court musicians of the Mughal rulers. For decades, Khan has recorded extensively on both his instruments. He has toured in Europe, the Americas, and East and Southeast Asia. He spends a portion of each year teaching classical Indian music and instructing sitar students at Washington University in Saint Louis. Boston-based Agarwal, who received the Padma Shri in the education and literature category was awarded the prestigious Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education, last year. Agarwal was also named in Forbes’ list of top 15 education innovators in 2012 and holds a Guinness World Record for the largest microphone array. Currently, he serves as CEO of edx, an online learning destination founded by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Agarwal has served as the director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT.
Originally from Bahadarpur, Gujarat, Shah is also chairman of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (USA), an institution dedicated to literature, culture, education, music and arts. He is the recipient of the 2005 Ellis Island Medal of Honor. Shah is also the director of the Indian American Center for Political Awareness (USA).
“I am deeply humbled, honored and overjoyed that the Republic of India has decided to confer on me the Padma Shri in recognition of my work for more than 35 years,” Shah said. He expressed his gratitude to his family, friends and well-wishers. Khan, who spends most of his time in St. Louis, MO, received the award for his contribution to the arts and music. The younger brother of sitar maestro Ustad Vilayat Khan, was born in Calcutta into a family of musicians tracing its pedigree back for several generations, to the court musicians of the Mughal rulers. For decades, Khan has recorded extensively on both his instruments. He has toured in Europe, the Americas, and East and Southeast Asia. He spends a portion of each year teaching classical Indian music and instructing sitar students at Washington University in Saint Louis. Boston-based Agarwal, who received the Padma Shri in the education and literature category was awarded the prestigious Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education, last year. Agarwal was also named in Forbes’ list of top 15 education innovators in 2012 and holds a Guinness World Record for the largest microphone array. Currently, he serves as CEO of edx, an online learning destination founded by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Agarwal has served as the director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT.
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