Meet Padma Shri awardees: Kashmir's Karate Kid, doctor behind world's 1st IVF buffalo calf
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The list of this year's Padma Shri awardees includes many "unsung heroes" who have contributed to the society in their own ways.
The list of this year's Padma Shri awardees includes many "unsung heroes" who have contributed to the society in their own ways.
The Narendra Modi government posthumously awarded Andhra Pradesh's Gosaveedu Shaik Hassan, a Nadaswaram player and freedom fighter.
For seven decades, Hassan played the wind instrument everyday as 'Suprabhatham' to Lord Rama. The classical instrument's exponent, he served and dedicated his life to historical Sri Seetha Ramachandra Swami Temple at Bhadrachalam.
Uttar Pradesh's Seth Pal Singh has contributed to agriculture by specialising in modifying the Singhara crop geometry and rotation practice. He developed an innovative technique of growing the crop through scaffolding, relay cropping and intercropping method and inspired farmers to grow fruits and vegetables along with traditional crops.
Maharashtra's Himmatrao Bawaskar is a general physician from Mahad widely known for his treatment for scorpion stings and snake bites.
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Coming from a humble background, he started treating the poor in rural areas despite a lack of resources and discovered that by using Prazosin for treatment mortality rate dropped from 40 per cent to less than 1 per cent.
