Xavier's G.K.OCEAN

           BHARAT  RATNA  RECIPIENTS

                           1. C. Rajagopalachari

                           2. Dr. S. Radhakrisnan

                           3. Dr. C. V. Raman

                           4. Dr. Bhagwan Das

·     First Indian who received Bharat Ratna posthumously – Lal Bahadur Shastri

·      Second Indian who received Bharat Ratna posthumously -  Kumaraswami Kamraj

·      First female received Bharat Ratna – Smt. Indira Gandhi

·      First foreigner who received Bharat Ratna – Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Pakistan)

·      Second foreigner who received Bharat Ratna – Late Dr. Nelson Mandela (South Africa)

                                                                                                                            

              

                   GYANPITH AWARDS

1.              G. Shankar Kurup (1965)

2.              Tara Shankar Bandyopadhyay (1966)

3.              K. V. Putappa & Uma Shankar Joshi (1967)

4.              Sumitra Nandan Pant (1968)

5.              Amarkant and Srilal Shukla (45^th- 2009)

6.              Chandrashekhar Kambar (46^th - 2010)