This would be my last blog posting about padma awards, I am done with it. I had written about my resentment towards these awards in the past. The unfair treatment (or a preferential treatment towards some) meted out by the Indian Government still remains in effect. This year I saw Ilayaraja's name among the list of other padma bhushan awardees like AR Rehman and Aamir Khan. I am happy for all of them but I feel this award has come too late for Ilayaraja.
If Aamir Khan could get it, then there are much more deserving people in the film industry like Kamal Hassan, S.P.Balasubramaniam, Om Puri, Mani Ratnam (he has not even received Padma Shri yet, I guess) etc just to name a few, who should have got it much before. Rekha gets Padma Shri now, after so many years, and after so many other actors (much younger) who received these awards much before her and who have hardly achieved anything in Indian cinema. It is clear now that it is all about how you position yourself in the awards market.
This is just an example from our film industry. Imagine what would be happening in the other fields. I hope the Indian government wakes up to it, otherwise very soon these awards would cease to have any value at all (or may be it is already so).
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