| The first awardees were American inventor Robert Fischell, Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, and Irish singer Bono. |
| Without any specific criteria, the choice of awardees and fields was open to interpretation. |
| But the prevailing emotion that day, even among us awardees, was a bemused sense of boredom, restlessness and insatiability. |
| Sadly, their families are typically the only ones left to commend, since most of the awardees are dead. |
| It seems evident that while there seemed to be a tilt towards Bombay and Calcutta to begin with, at least the awardees were all Indians. |
| The following morning, we visited the Gram Shilp where artisans, some of them national awardees, can be seen at work, making durries out of old saris and other materials. |
