Indian Honours and Awards

O.N.V. Kurup (Ottaplakkal Neelakandan Vijayan) won the Jnanpith Award in 2010 for his contributions to Malayalam poetry and literature. He was the fifth Malayalam writer to receive this prestigious honor.

Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian to receive a Nobel Prize in 1913 for Literature. C.V. Raman won in 1930 (Physics), Har Gobind Khorana won in 1968 (Medicine), and Amartya Sen won in 1998 (Economics). Tagore preceded all other Indian Nobel laureates by 17 years or more.

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As of the knowledge cutoff, Indians or persons of Indian origin have won Nobel Prizes in Physics (C.V. Raman, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar), Medicine (Hargobind Khorana), Literature (Rabindranath Tagore, V.S. Naipaul), Peace (Mother Teresa, Kailash Satyarthi), and Economics (Amartya Sen). Chemistry remains the only category where no person of Indian origin has won a Nobel Prize.

Hargobind Khorana shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Marshall Nirenberg and Robert Holley for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis. The prize was specifically for Medicine, not Physics, Chemistry, or Economics.

Gunturu Seshendra Sarma (1927-2007), a renowned Telugu poet and critic, was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was a significant figure in Telugu literature after Tagore's era. Option D (Gunturu Seshendra Sarma) is correct.

Amitav Ghosh received the prestigious Dan David Award in 2010 for his contributions to literature. The award honors individuals for groundbreaking work in various fields. Dev Anand and Mani Shankar Mukherjee were not Dan David laureates.

The Borlaug Award (note: spelled 'Bourlog' in the question, likely a typo) is named after Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug and honors outstanding contributions to agriculture and food security. The Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award is for science, Arjun Award for sports, and Vyasa Samman for literature.

Ratan Tata received the Padma Bhushan in 2000, but the option '50th Republic Day' (2000) is how Indian government honors are announced - on Republic Day. India's 50th Republic Day was January 26, 2000, which is when the 2000 Padma awards were announced.

G. Sankara Kurup (listed as G.Shankar Kurup) was the first recipient of the Jnanpith Award in 1965, India's highest literary award. He was a celebrated Malayalam poet known for his work 'Odakkuzhal' (The Flute).

John Brumby, former Premier of Victoria, Australia, won the Mahatma Gandhi Peace Award in 2010 for his contributions to promoting harmony and peace. Lewis Corner, John McCarthy, and Sheila Dixit were not recipients of this award in 2010.

Dr. M. S. Swaminathan was the first Indian to receive the World Food Prize in 1987 for his leadership in India's Green Revolution, which dramatically increased agricultural productivity and made India food-self-sufficient. Dr. Verghese Kurien is known as the 'Father of the White Revolution' (dairy), and Dr. Amita Patel is not a recognized name in agricultural development history.

The Bharat Ratna was instituted in 1954, and the first recipients were C. Rajagopalachari, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, and Dr. C.V. Raman (all awarded in 1954). Dr. B.R. Ambedkar was not among the first recipients; he was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1990. The question correctly identifies Ambedkar as the non-recipient of the first batch.

H.M. Naqvi won the first DSC South Asian Literature award in 2011 for his novel 'The Karachi Bakery'. This award recognizes South Asian literature and Naqvi was the inaugural recipient. Aravind Adiga, Ramachandra Guha, and Chetan Bhagat are prominent Indian writers but did not win this specific award.