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Nation Padma Samman

AWARDS MOTIVATE

TO WORK HARD

There is no substitute for hard work; you must recognise its value. If you work with true
passion, your work will be respected sooner or later. A living example of this is the inclusion
of many such names in the Padma Awards announced in 2023. Some have been working in
their respective fields for 50 or 60 years without getting any publicity. They have not only kept
India's heritage alive, but also its arts, culture, sports, and folk music alive, through their work.
New India Samachar spoke with some of these Padma Award recipients.

Age 87: Passion: imparting

coaching to cricketers

such as Ajay Jadeja, Maninder Singh, Surendra
Khanna, Kirti Azad, Murali Karthik, and Vivek
Razdan, believes that what he has is more than
Gurcharan Singh enough. There has been no delay in getting the
award. One benefit of receiving an award at this
t was around 3.30 p.m. when I called him on his age is that you will be more motivated to work.
Icellphone; someone else picked up the phone. I Gurcharan Singh, who was born in undivided
asked if I could talk to Gurcharan Singh ji. So he India's Lahore, immigrated to India during the
said, "Wait a minute; the boys are practising on the partition. He has made cricket his life since then.
ground right now." Within a minute, he came on Before receiving the Padma Award, he received
the phone and said, "Yes, speak." I said that even the Dronacharya Award in 1987. He was the
at this age and at this time on the ground, he said Indian cricket team's coach from 1985 to 1987,
that he doesn't know anything other than this. With coaching Ranji Trophy, Under-22, and Under-19
the blessings of God, my body is supporting me, so players. He was also a member of the Indian
whatever cricket is left in me, I am passing on to the Railways cricket team. He has given coaching in
next generation. Cricket is my life. Gurcharan Singh, many Delhi schools, and he still spends 12 to 14
who has given the Indian cricket team players hours on the ground with the children.

Bawan Buti artisan, Hope

the market will grow now

68-year-old Kapil Dev Prasad, a resident of Bihar's
Nalanda district, who learned the skill of Bawan
Booti (52 motif) from his grandfather and father,
Kapil Dev Prasad has not only turned it into a means of self-
employment since the age of 15, but is also a

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