Indian Honours and Awards

The Borlaug Award (misspelled as 'Bourlog') honors contributions to agriculture and food security, named after Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug. The Arjun Award is for sports, Vyasa Samman for literature, and Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award for science.

Deep Joshi, a social worker dedicated to rural development, received the 2009 Ramon Magsaysay Award. He was recognized for his decades of work empowering communities in the Himalayan region. The award is considered Asia's equivalent of the Nobel Prize.

The Bharat Ratna was instituted in 1954 and awarded to C. Rajagopalachari, Dr S. Radhakrishnan, and Dr C.V. Raman in its very first year. Dr B.R. Ambedkar, despite being the architect of the Indian Constitution, was not a recipient in 1954 - he was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1990, 34 years after his death.

JRD Tata was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1957 to mark the silver jubilee of Indian Airlines, which he had helped establish and build. The Padma Vibhushan is India's second-highest civilian award. The other awards listed are either too high (Bharat Ratna) or incorrect for this occasion.

The Dronacharya Award is India's highest honor for outstanding coaches in sports and games. It is named after Dronacharya from the Mahabharata, the legendary guru of archery. The award is specifically for coaches, not sportsmen, umpires, or sports editors, making option B the correct choice.

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was established in 1968 by Sweden's central bank. While often called a 'Nobel Prize,' it's not part of Nobel's original will and differs in funding and administration. The other options are fictitious categories.

Rabindranath Tagore received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his collection of poems Gitanjali, making him the first Indian Nobel laureate. Option B incorrectly states 1953 instead of 1913. Options C and D name 'Vankur Bhattacharya' who does not exist - no Indian received the Nobel Peace Prize in those years.

Saina Nehwal was awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 2010-2011 for her exceptional achievements in badminton, becoming the first Indian badminton player to achieve this honor. Dhoni received it earlier (2007), while Abhinav Bindra received it in 2001.

S N Subba Rao, a noted social worker from Karnataka, received the 2010 Anuvrat Ahimsa International Peace Award for his lifelong work promoting peace and non-violence. The award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to peacebuilding and social harmony. Krishna, Radhakrishnan, and Pachauri were distinguished figures in other fields.

The Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards are prestigious Indian journalism awards instituted by the Express Group in 2006. They recognize excellence in print and digital journalism across multiple categories including investigative reporting, political reporting, and feature writing.

Veerappa Moily received the Next Step Foundation 2010 award for outstanding contribution to international legal cooperation. He was Law Minister and played a key role in legal reforms. H Bhardwaj was Law Minister earlier, P Chidambaram held Finance/Home.

Hrishikesh Sulabh received the 2010 International Indu Sharma Katha Samman for his contributions as a poet and short story writer in Hindi literature. Pawan Chamling is a politician (Sikkim CM), Byomkesh Bakshi is fictional, Ranjan Rout is a different writer.

Ritu Sarin, along with her colleague at The Indian Express, was awarded the Prem Bhatia Award for Political Reporting in 2010 for her investigative journalism work. The award recognizes excellence in political journalism in India.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is responsible for awarding the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry. The Nobel Prize in Economics is formally called the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, also awarded by the Academy, but the question specifically asks about the categories traditionally established in Nobel's will.