Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath

Indian neuroscientist

Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath

Born|  (1953-10-18) 18 October 1953 (age 71)

Chennai, India

Nationality| Indian
Alma mater| Andhra University, Mysore University
Known for| Promoting neuroscience research and establishing major neuroscience research centres in India
Awards| Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, Padma Shri Award
Scientific career
Fields| Neuroscience
Institutions| Indian Institute of Science, National Brain Research Centre, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Centre for Brain Research
Doctoral advisor| Chandrasekhara N

Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath (born 18 October 1953) is an Indian neuroscientist. She is currently a professor at the Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. She was the founder director of the National Brain Research Centre, Gurgaon (2000-9) and founder chair of the Centre for Neuroscience at Indian Institute of Science. Her main area of interest is the study of brain related disorders including neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.[1][2] She serves as the founding director of the Centre for Brain Research in Bangalore.[3]

## Education and career

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Ravindranath earned her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Andhra University, received her Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1981 from Mysore University, and worked at the National Cancer Institute in the US as a postdoctoral fellow. She joined the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences in Bangalore, where she studied the metabolizing capacity of the human brain, focusing especially on psychoactive drugs and environmental toxins.[4] In 1999, she helped Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India to establish National Brain Research Centre to co-ordinate and network neuroscience research groups in India.[5]

## Awards and recognitions

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Ravindranath is an elected fellow of several Indian academies: Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy and National Academy of Medical Sciences,[6] Indian Academy of Neurosciences and Third World Academy of Sciences.[7]

* Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for Medical Sciences in 1996[8]
* KP Bhargava Medal of Indian National Science Academy
* Om Prakash Bhasin Award for Science & Technology in 2001[9]
* J.C. Bose Fellowship (2006)
* S.S. Bhatnagar Award of Indian National Science Academy (2016)
* Padma Shri Award in 2010[10]

## Publications

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Ravindranath, V., & Sundarakumar, J. S. (2021). Changing demography and the challenge of dementia in India. In Nature Reviews Neurology (Vol. 17, Issue 12, pp. 747–758). Nature Research. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41582-021-00565-x

1. Ray, Ajit; Kambali, Maltesh; Ravindranath, Vijayalakshmi (2016). "Thiol Oxidation by Diamide Leads to Dopaminergic Degeneration and Parkinsonism Phenotype in Mice: A Model for Parkinson's Disease". Antioxidants & Redox Signaling. 25 (5): 252–267. doi:10.1089/ars.2015.6602. PMID 27121974.
2. Johnson, William M.; Golczak, Marcin; Choe, Kyonghwan; Curran, Pierce L.; Gorelenkova Miller, Olga; Yao, Chen; Wang, Wenzhang; Lin, Jiusheng; Milkovic, Nicole M.; Ray, Ajit; Ravindranath, Vijayalakshmi; Zhu, Xiongwei; Wilson, Mark A.; Wilson-Delfosse, Amy L.; Chen, Shu G.; Mieyal, John Joseph (2016). "Regulation of DJ-1 by glutaredoxin 1 in vivo – implications for Parkinson's disease". Biochemistry. 55 (32): 4519–32. doi:10.1021/acs.biochem.5b01132. PMC 4987251. PMID 26894491.
3. Ravindranath, Vijayalakshmi; Dang, Hoang-Minh; Goya, Rodolfo G.; Mansour, Hader; Nimgaonkar, Vishwajit L.; Russell, Vivienne Ann; Xin, Yu (2015). "Regional research priorities in brain and nervous system disorders". Nature. 527 (7578): S198–206. Bibcode:2015Natur.527S.198R. doi:10.1038/nature16036. hdl:11336/48799. PMID 26580328.
4. Ray, Ajit; Sehgal, Neha; Karunakaran, Smitha; Rangarajan, Govindan; Ravindranath, Vijayalakshmi (2015). "MPTP activates ASK1–p38 MAPK signaling pathway through TNF-dependent Trx1 oxidation in parkinsonism mouse model". Free Radical Biology and Medicine. 87: 312–25. doi:10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2015.06.041. PMID 26164633.
5. Ahmad, Faraz; Nidadavolu, Prakash; Durgadoss, Lalitha; Ravindranath, Vijayalakshmi (2014). "Critical cysteines in Akt1 regulate its activity and proteasomal degradation: Implications for neurodegenerative diseases". Free Radical Biology and Medicine. 74: 118–28. doi:10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2014.06.004. PMID 24933620.
6. Ravindranath, Vijayalakshmi (2014). "Occurrence, distribution and potential actions of CYP2D6 in the brain". pp. 102–116. doi:10.2217/fmeb2013.14.9. ISBN 978-1-78084-462-6. `{{cite book}}`: `|journal=` ignored (help); Missing or empty `|title=` (help)
7. Ravindranath, Vijayalakshmi; Strobel, Henry W (2013). "Cytochrome P450-mediated metabolism in brain: Functional roles and their implications". Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism & Toxicology. 9 (5): 551–8. doi:10.1517/17425255.2013.759208. PMID 23330950. S2CID 12723035.

## References

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1. ^ "Prof. Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath". Indian Institute of Science. Archived from the original on 12 October 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
2. ^ Ravindranath, Vijayalakshmi. Lilavathi Daughters (PDF). Retrieved 11 October 2014.
3. ^ "Centre for Brain Research". Archived from the original on 15 August 2022. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
4. ^ "Awardee Details: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize". Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
5. ^ "Biographical Sketch of Dr. Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath" (PDF). 16 August 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 August 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
6. ^ "List of Fellows" (PDF). National Academy of Medical Sciences. 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
7. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 August 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2016.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
8. ^ "Career in CSIR". www.csir.res.in. Archived from the original on 10 February 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
9. ^ "Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Awards – Health and Medical Sciences". Archived from the original on 18 February 2022. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
10. ^ "Indian Fellow, Dr V Ravindranath". Indian National Science Academy. Retrieved 6 October 2014.

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Recipients of Padma Shri in Science & Engineering

1950s|

* Kshitish Ranjan Chakravorty (1954)
* Habib Rahman (1955)
* Laxman Mahadeo Chitale (1957)
* Ram Prakash Gehlote (1957)
* Krishnaswami Ramiah (1957)
* Bal Raj Nijhawan (1958)
* Benjamin Peary Pal (1958)
* Navalpakkam Parthasarthy (1958)
* Surendranath Kar (1959)
* Om Prakash Mathur (1959)
* Homi Sethna (1959)

1960s|

* Anil Kumar Das (1960)
* A. S. Rao (1960)
* M. G. K. Menon (1961)
* Brahm Prakash (1961)
* Man Mohan Suri (1961)
* Paramananda Acharya (1964)
* Vishnu Madav Ghatage (1965)
* Satish Dhawan (1966)
* Maganbhai Ramchhodbhai Patel (1967)
* Hermenegild Santapau (1967)
* M. S. Swaminathan (1967)
* Guduru Venkatachalam (1967)
* Raja Ramanna (1968)
* Nautam Bhatt (1969)
* Amrik Singh Cheema (1969)
* T. V. Mahalingam (1969)

1970s|

* P. R. Pisharoty (1970)
* Moti Lal Dhar (1971)
* Zafar Futehally (1971)
* Devendra Lal (1971)
* Charles Correa (1972)
* N. Kesava Panikkar (1973)
* Govind Swarup (1973)
* Achyut Kanvinde (1974)
* Suchitra Mitra (1974)
* C. N. R. Rao (1974)
* Sitaram Rao Valluri (1974)
* Rajagopala Chidambaram (1975)
* Shambhu Dayal Sinvhal (1976)
* B. R. Deodhar (1976)
* B. V. Doshi (1976)
* Atmaram Bhairav Joshi (1976)
* Janaki Ammal (1977)
* Jugal Kishore Choudhury (1977)
* Prafulla Kumar Jena (1977)
* Vishwa Gopal Jhingran (1977)
* Sibte Hasan Zaidi (1977)

1980s|

* Hari Krishan Jain (1981)
* Gurcharan Singh Kalkat (1981)
* Dinkar Gangadhar Kelkar (1981)
* Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan (1982)
* Satya Prakash (1982)
* V. Narayana Rao (1982)
* Saroj Raj Choudhury (1983)
* Hassan Nasiem Siddiquie (1983)
* María Renée Cura (1984)
* Vasant Gowarikar (1984)
* Pramod Kale (1984)
* Nilamber Pant (1984)
* Myneni Hariprasada Rao (1984)
* M. R. Srinivasan (1984)
* Predhiman Krishan Kaw (1985)
* P. V. S. Rao (1987)
* Ramadas P. Shenoy (1987)
* Saroj Ghose (1989)
* Palle Rama Rao (1989)

1990s|

* Ram Narain Agarwal (1990)
* Laurie Baker (1990)
* M. R. Kurup (1990)
* Rakesh Bakshi (1991)
* B. L. Deekshatulu (1991)
* Narinder Kumar Gupta (1991)
* Shri Krishna Joshi (1991)
* Raghunath Anant Mashelkar (1991)
* Govindarajan Padmanaban (1991)
* Bangalore Puttaiya Radhakrishna (1991)
* A. V. Rama Rao (1991)
* Ganeshan Venkataraman (1991)
* Madhava Ashish (1992)
* G. S. Venkataraman (1992)
* Kailash Sankhala (1992)
* Vinod Prakash Sharma (1992)
* Joseph Allen Stein (1992)
* Manmohan Attavar (1998)
* Priyambada Mohanty Hejmadi (1998)
* Anil Kakodkar (1998)
* Aditya Narayan Purohit (1998)
* V. K. Saraswat (1998)
* Asis Datta (1999)
* Indira Nath (1999)
* M. S. Ramakumar (1999)
* M. V. Rao (1999)
* S. K. Sikka (1999)

2000s|

* Vijay P. Bhatkar (2000)
* D. D. Bhawalkar (2000)
* Gurdev Khush (2000)
* Parasu Ram Mishra (2000)
* Sandip Kumar Basu (2001)
* Bisweswar Bhattacharjee (2001)
* V. K. Chaturvedi (2001)
* Ketayun Ardeshir Dinshaw (2001)
* Prem Shanker Goel (2001)
* Goverdhan Mehta (2001)
* C. G. Krishnadas Nair (2001)
* M. S. Raghunathan (2001)
* Sanjaya Rajaram (2001)
* T. V. Ramakrishnan (2001)
* Thirumalachari Ramasami (2001)
* Dasika Durga Prasada Rao (2001)
* Paul Ratnasamy (2001)
* Ashoke Sen (2001)
* Bikash Sinha (2001)
* Suhas Pandurang Sukhatme (2001)
* A. S. Arya (2002)
* Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan (2002)
* Padmanabhan Balaram (2002)
* Dorairajan Balasubramanian (2002)
* Ramanath Cowsik (2002)
* Chaitanyamoy Ganguly (2002)
* Kota Harinarayana (2002)
* Ashok Jhunjhunwala (2002)
* Amitav Malik (2002)
* Katuru Narayana (2002)
* A. Sivathanu Pillai (2002)
* I. V. Subba Rao (2002)
* B. N. Suresh (2002)
* Asok Kumar Barua (2003)
* Shivram Bhoje (2003)
* Jai Bhagwan Chaudhary (2003)
* Sarvagya Singh Katiyar (2003)
* Gyan Chandra Mishra (2003)
* Jai Pal Mittal (2003)
* Sundaram Ramakrishnan (2003)
* Baburao Govindrao Shirke (2003)
* Mahendra Singh Sodha (2003)
* Nagarajan Vedachalam (2003)
* Satish Kumar Kaura (2004)
* Nalini Ranjan Mohanty (2004)
* T. S. Prahlad (2004)
* Vishweshwaraiah Prakash (2004)
* K. N. Shankara (2004)
* Lalji Singh (2004)
* Rajpal Singh Sirohi (2004)
* M. Vijayan (2004)
* Dipankar Banerjee (2005)
* Srikumar Banerjee (2005)
* Banwari Lal Chouksey (2005)
* Bhagavatula Dattaguru (2005)
* Vasudevan Gnana Gandhi (2005)
* Madhu Sudan Kanungo (2005)
* M. Mahadevappa (2005)
* Ramachandran Balasubramanian (2006)
* Harsh Gupta (2006)
* Seyed E. Hasnain (2006)
* Narendra Kumar (2006)
* B. V. Nimbkar (2006)
* Swaminathan Sivaram (2006)
* Thekkethil Kochandy Alex (2007)
* Rabi Narayan Bastia (2007)
* Dilip K. Biswas (2007)
* Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty (2007)
* Kiran Karnik (2007)
* Thanu Padmanabhan (2007)
* Baldev Raj (2007)
* Sudhir Kumar Sopory (2007)
* Khadg Singh Valdiya (2007)
* Kasturi Lal Chopra (2008)
* Joseph H. Hulse (2008)
* Bhavarlal Jain (2008)
* Kaleem Ullah Khan (2008)
* Sant Singh Virmani (2008)
* Pramod Tandon (2009)
* Goriparthi Narasimha Raju Yadav (2009)

2010s|

* Vijay Prasad Dimri (2010)
* Pucadyil Ittoop John (2010)
* Palpu Pushpangadan (2010)
* M. R. S. Rao (2010)
* Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath (2010)
* Ponisseril Somasundaran (2010)
* M. Annamalai (2011)
* Moni Lal Bhoumik (2011)
* Coimbatore Narayana Rao Raghavendran (2011)
* Suman Sahai (2011)
* G. Shankar (2011)
* E. A. Siddiq (2011)
* Subra Suresh (2011)
* V. Adimurthy (2012)
* Rameshwar Nath Koul Bamezai (2012)
* Krishna Lal Chadha (2012)
* Virander Singh Chauhan (2012)
* Y. S. Rajan (2012)
* Jagadish Shukla (2012)
* Vijaypal Singh (2012)
* Lokesh Kumar Singhal (2012)
* Manindra Agrawal (2013)
* Mustansir Barma (2013)
* Avinash Chander (2013)
* Sanjay Govind Dhande (2013)
* Jayaraman Gowrishankar (2013)
* Sharad P. Kale (2013)
* Sankar Kumar Pal (2013)
* Deepak B. Phatak (2013)
* Mudundi Ramakrishna Raju (2013)
* Ajay K. Sood (2013)
* K. VijayRaghavan (2013)
* Sekhar Basu (2014)
* Madhavan Chandradathan (2014)
* Jayanta Kumar Ghosh (2014)
* Ravi Grover (2014)
* Ramakrishna V. Hosur (2014)
* E. D. Jemmis (2014)
* A. S. Kiran Kumar (2014)
* Ajay Kumar Parida (2014)
* M. Y. S. Prasad (2014)
* Brahma Singh (2014)
* Vinod K. Singh (2014)
* Govindan Sundararajan (2014)
* Subbiah Arunan (2015)
* Jacques Blamont (2015)
* N. Prabhakar (2015)
* Prahlada (2015)
* S. K. Shivakumar (2015)
* Mylswamy Annadurai (2016)
* Dipankar Chatterji (2016)
* Satish Kumar (2016)
* Onkar Nath Srivastava (2016)
* Veena Tandon (2016)
* G. D. Yadav (2016)
* Jitendra Nath Goswami (2017)
* Chintakindi Mallesham (2017)
* Amitava Roy (2018)
* Vikram Chandra Thakur (2018)
* Rajagopalan Vasudevan (2018)
* Manas Bihari Verma (2018)
* Uddhab Bharali (2019)
* Baldev Singh Dhillon (2019)
* Rohini Godbole (2019)
* Subhash Kak (2019)

2020s|

* Raman Gangakhedkar (2020)
* Sujoy K. Guha (2020)
* K. S. Manilal (2020)
* Vashishtha Narayan Singh (2020)
* Thalappil Pradeep (2020)
* H. C. Verma (2020)
* Sudhir K. Jain (2020)
* Rattan Lal (2021)
* Subbanna Ayyappan (2022)
* Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (2022)
* Aditya Prasad Dash (2022)
* Moti Lal Madan (2022)
* Anil K. Rajvanshi (2022)
* Ajay Kumar Sonkar (2022)
* Jyantkumar Maganlal Vyas (2022)
* Khadar Valli Dudekula (2023)
* Modadugu Vijay Gupta (2023)
* Ganesh Nagappa Krishnarajanagara (2023)
* Arvind Kumar (2023)
* Mahendra Pal (2023)
* Bakshi Ram (2023)
* Sujatha Ramdorai (2023)
* Abbareddy Nageswara Rao (2023)

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Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Laureates of Tamil Nadu

Biological Sciences|

* Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan
* M. S. Swaminathan
* C. V. Subramanian
* T. C. Anand Kumar
* M. K. Chandrashekaran
* Ramamirtha Jayaraman
* Govindarajan Padmanaban
* Thavamani Jegajothivel Pandian
* Kuppamuthu Dharmalingam
* Jayaraman Gowrishankar
* Narayanaswamy Srinivasan
* Rajan Sankaranarayanan

Chemical Sciences|

* T. R. Govindachari
* Kuppuswamy Nagarajan
* Dorairajan Balasubramanian
* Paramasivam Natarajan
* Srinivasan Chandrasekaran
* Narayanasami Sathyamurthy
* Thirumalachari Ramasami
* Mariappan Periasamy
* Narayanan Chandrakumar
* Murali Sastry
* Narayanaswamy Jayaraman
* Govindasamy Mugesh

Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences|

* Kunchithapadam Gopalan
* Rengaswamy Ramesh

Engineering Sciences|

* Tanjore Ramachandra Anantharaman
* Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman
* Paul Ratnasamy
* Ramarathnam Narasimhan
* Viswanathan Kumaran
* B. S. Murty
* G. K. Ananthasuresh
* Shanthi Pavan

Mathematical Sciences|

* C. S. Seshadri
* Kalyanapuram Rangachari Parthasarathy
* E. M. V. Krishnamurthy
* Sundararaman Ramanan
* Srinivasacharya Raghavan
* Ramaiyengar Sridharan
* Rajagopalan Parthasarathy
* Thiruvenkatachari Parthasarathy
* Raman Parimala
* Ramachandran Balasubramanian
* Annamalai Ramanathan
* Vaikalathur Shankar Sunder
* Trivandrum Ramakrishnan Ramadas
* Subhashis Nag
* Sundaram Thangavelu
* Vikraman Balaji

Medical Sciences|

* Subramanian Kalyanaraman
* Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath

Physical Sciences|

* Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan
* G. N. Ramachandran
* Sivaraj Ramaseshan
* Ramanuja Vijayaraghavan
* E. S. Raja Gopal
* N. S. Satya Murthy
* Ramanujan Srinivasan
* Tiruppattur Venkatachalamurti Ramakrishnan
* Muthusamy Lakshmanan
* Ganapathy Baskaran
* Rajiah Simon
* E. V. Sampathkumaran
* Vijay Balakrishna Shenoy

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Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Physical Sciences

1950s|

* K. S. Krishnan (1958)

1960s|

* M. G. K. Menon (1960)
* G. N. Ramachandran (1961)
* Vikram Sarabhai (1962)
* Raja Ramanna (1963)
* A. R. Verma (1964)
* B. Ramachandra Rao (1965)
* Suresh Chand Jain (1966)
* S. Ramaseshan (1966)
* Devendra Lal (1967)
* A. P. Mitra (1968)
* Asoke Nath Mitra (1969)

1970s|

* Vainu Bappu (1970)
* P. K. Iyengar (1971)
* S. Chandrasekhar (1972)
* S. K. Joshi (1972)
* Virendra Singh (1973)
* K. P. Sinha (1974)
* M. S. Sodha (1974)
* K. L. Chopra (1975)
* B. R. Nag (1975)
* C. K. Majumdar (1976)
* Ramanuja Vijayaraghavan (1976)
* Jayant Narlikar (1978)
* E. S. Raja Gopal (1978)
* Ajoy Ghatak (1979)
* S. S. Jha (1979)

1980s|

* N. Mukunda (1980)
* N. S. Satya Murthy (1980)
* S. M. Roy (1981)
* Ramanujan Srinivasan (1981)
* Girish Saran Agarwal (1982)
* T. V. Ramakrishnan (1982)
* S. S. Kapoor (1982)
* Ramamurti Rajaraman (1983)
* Ramanath Cowsik (1984)
* Ranganathan Shashidhar (1984)
* Narendra Kumar (1985)
* K. Singh (1985)
* P. K. Kaw (1986)
* Vijay Kumar Kapahi (1987)
* Probir Roy (1987)
* Deepak Kumar (1988)
* O. N. Srivastava (1988)
* M. Lakshmanan (1989)
* N. V. Madhusudana (1989)

1990s|

* G. Baskaran (1990)
* A. K. Sood (1990)
* Deepak Dhar (1991)
* Deepak Mathur (1991)
* Vikram Kumar (physicist) (1992)
* S. R. Shenoy (1992)
* Gopal Krishna (1993)
* Rajiah Simon (1993)
* A. K. Raychaudhuri (1994)
* Ashoke Sen (1994)
* Mustansir Barma (1995)
* Thanu Padmanabhan (1996)
* B. K. Chakrabarti (1997)
* A. Raychaudhuri (1997)
* S. R. Das (1998)
* A. M. Jayannavar (1998)
* Sunil Mukhi (1999)
* E. V. Sampathkumaran (1999)

2000s|

* Sriram Ramaswamy (2000)
* Varun Sahni (2000)
* Rahul Pandit (2001)
* Avinash Anant Deshpande (2002)
* Mohit Randeria (2002)
* G. Ravindra Kumar (2003)
* Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya (2003)
* Madan Rao (2004)
* Sandip Trivedi (2005)
* Atish Dabholkar (2006)
* Sanjay Puri (physicist) (2006)
* Yashwant Gupta (2007)
* Pinaki Majumdar (2007)
* Raghunathan Srianand (2008)
* Srikanth Sastry (2008)
* Rajesh Gopakumar (2009)
* Abhishek Dhar (2009)

2010s|

* Kalobaran Maiti (2010)
* Umesh Waghmare (2010)
* Shiraz Minwalla (2011)
* Arindam Ghosh (2012)
* Krishnendu Sengupta (2012)
* Amol Dighe (2013)
* Vijay Balakrishna Shenoy (2013)
* Pratap Raychaudhuri (2014)
* Sadiqali Abbas Rangwala (2014)
* Bedangadas Mohanty (2015)
* Mandar Madhukar Deshmukh (2015)
* S. Anantha Ramakrishna (2016)
* Sudhir Kumar Vempati (2016)
* Nissim Kanekar (2017)
* Vinay Gupta (2017)
* Aditi De (2018)
* Ambarish Ghosh (2018)
* Aninda Sinha (2019)
* Shankar Ghosh (2019)

2020s|

* Surajit Dhara (2020)
* Rajesh Ganapathy (2020)
* Kanak Saha (2021)
* Anindya Das (2022)
* Basudeb Dasgupta (2022)

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