The Padma awards have always been in controversies. It sometime raises doubt in my mind. Are these awards are about government favour or are based on merit??
There are facts to support this doubt also. How was temperamental offspinner Harbhajan Singh, who was accused of sledging and even slapping a teammate, more deserving of a Padma award than, say, VVS Laxman, classy Hyderabadi batsman and one of the architects of the Indian cricket renaissance. What is the criteria to select Ashwariya Bachaan or Akshya kumar for the award? And irony of all ironies, how can one explain the exclusion of wrestler Sushil Kumar and boxer Bijendra Singh who got us bronze medals at the Beijing Olympics?
Fifty-four years ago, the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award, and Padma awards (Padma Vhibusan, Padma Bhusan and Padma Shri) were instituted to honour exellence. Today with a few honorable exceptions, the award has become an object of decoration, worth lobbying aggressively for.
Strangely, the awards have no cash component, but since it is a National honour delivered on Republic day, there is a mad scramble for it. Do we need an independant body to judge the awards? After all these are not filmfare awards, these are the highest civillian awards being bestwoed to worthy citizens of the country.
3 comments:
it is very true dat nowadays dere is simply no criteria to decide upon the recepients of dese awards...it is simply given away to people who r high on the popularity charts b4 even thnking twice dat how much worthy dey r of dese awards..
i agree with u n sanghhiitaaaaaa.......
Ther must be some reasons for which this happened...
one of them may be corruption...
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