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India’s Bharat Vatwani, Sonam Wangchuk among 2018 Ramon Magsaysay Award winners MAGSAYSAY AWARD •The Ramon Magsaysay Award was created in 1957, the year the Philippines lost in a p RAMON MAGSAYSAY • The seventh President of the Philippines • Life – (August 31, 1907 – March 17, 1957) • He was the first Philippine President born during the 20th century and the first to be born after the Spanish colonial era. • The Philippines was a Spanish colony for 333 years from 1521–1898. It began when Ferdinand Magellan a European explorer arrived in the Philippines during his expedition in service of the King of Spain.
THE GOLDEN YEARS
• Magsaysay’s administration was considered one of the cleanest and most corruption-free in modern Philippines history; the period of his presidency is often cited as the Philippines’s “Golden Years”.
• Trade and industry flourished, the Philippine military was at its prime, and the country gained international recognition in sports, culture, and foreign affairs. The Philippines placed second on a ranking of Asia’s clean and well-governed countries.
1957 CRASH OF A DOUGLAS C-47 PLANE NAMED “MT. PINATUBO”
•Killed the 7th President of the Philippines, Ramon Magsaysay, and 24 other passengers. RAMON MAGSAYSAY
• The Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s highest honour till date is given to celebrate greatness of spirit and transformative leadership.
• It was established in 1957 by trustees of the New York City based Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Philippine gove
THE AWARDS WERE GIVEN IN SIX CATEGORIES, FIVE OF WHICH WERE DISCONTINUED IN 2009:
• Government Service (1958–2008)
• Public Service (1958–2008)
• Community Leadership (1958–2008)
•Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts (1958–2008)
• Peace and International Understanding (1958–2008) •Emergent Leadership (2001– ) • Uncategorized (2009– )
THE AWARD
•The awardees receive a certificate, a medallion bearing the likeness of the late President Ramon Magsaysay, and a cash prize. (USD 50,000) NOTES
•Some of the prominent Indian personalities to receive the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay award are: Kiran Bedim, Baba Amte, Vinoba Bhave, Verghese Kurien, Arvind Kejriwal, R.K Laxman, C.D. Deshmukh and T.N. Seshan. TWO INDIANS
• Two Indians, namely, Bharat Vatwani and Sonam Wangchuk on July 26, 2018 won the 2018 Ramon Magsaysay Award, the Asian version of the Nobel Prize.
WINNERS
•Bharat Vatwani:
He is a psychiatrist who works for mentally-ill people living on the streets in Mumbai. The award recognizes his courage and compassion in embracing India’s mentally-afflicted destitute and his dedication to work of restoring and affirming human dignity of even most ostracized. •The Shraddha Rehabilitation Foundation WINNERS
• Sonam Wangchuk:
He is educational reformer from Ladakh. In 1988, he had founded Students’ Education and Cultural Movement of Ladakh to coach poor Ladakhi students.
• The award recognizes his uniquely systematic, collaborative and community-driven reform of learning systems in remote Ladakh region which has helped to improve life opportunities of youths. He is widely regarded as inspiration for Aamir Khan’s character, Phunsuk Wangdu in the film ‘3 Idiots’.
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