Balan Putheri - Wikipedia

Balan Putheri is a visually challenged author from India. He authored more than 211 books on different subjects. He was given the Padma Shri Award, the fourth-highest civilian award in India in 2021.^[1]

Life

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Putheri is from Karipur, Kerala, India.^[2] He published his first book in 1983, and his 50th book, Guruvayoor Ekadashi, in 1997. He authored 211 books and most of them were about Hindu mythology.^[2]

His wife, Shanta, who was battling cancer, died on the day he reached Rashtrapati Bhavan to receive the award.^[3]

References

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^ Padma Shri for Bala Putheri. Accessed 30 November 2024
^ ^a ^b "Balan Putheri, Visually Challenged Man Who Authored 211 Books, Receives Padma Shri Amid News Of Wife". www.india.com. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
^ News of death of Bala Putheri's Wife . Accessed 30 November 2024

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1950s	K. Shankar Pillai (1954) Krishna Kanta Handique (1955) Surya Kumar Bhuyan (1956) Sukhdev Pande (1956) Nalini Bala Devi (1957) S. R. Ranganathan (1957) Ram Chandra Varma (1958) Magan Lal Tribhuvandas Vyas (1958) K. S. Chandrasekharan (1958)
1960s	B. S. Kesavan (1960) Artaballabha Mohanty (1960) N. D. Sundaravadivelu (1961) Vinayaka Krishna Gokak (1961) Vishnukant Jha (1961) Jinvijay (1961) Evengeline Lazarus (1961)
1970s	Ananda Chandra Barua (1970) Sulabha Panandikar (1971)
1980s	Krishan Dutta Bharadwaj (1981) Abid Ali Khan (1981) Ram Punjwani (1981) Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1982) R. V. Pandit (1982) Sher Singh Sher (1982) Gaura Pant Shivani (1982) Ahalya Chari (1983) Amitabha Chaudhuri (1983) Saliha Abid Hussain (1983) Komal Kothari (1983) Hundraj Lial Ram Dukhayal Manik (1983) Raghuvir Sharan Mitra (1983) Attar Singh (1983) Mayangnokcha Ao (1984) Kshem Suman Chandra (1984) Lakshmi Kumari Chundawat (1984) Shanta Gandhi (1984) Sadhu Singh Hamdard (1984) Qurratulain Hyder (1984) Ganpatrao Jadhav (1984) Syed Abdul Malik (1984) John Arthur King Martyn (1984) Sooranad Kunjan Pillai (1984) Syed Hasan Askari (1985) Jamesh Dokhuma (1985) Kaka Hathrasi (1985) Bharat Mishra (1985) Harishankar Parsai (1985) Ashangbam Minaketan Singh (1985) Anil Agarwal (1986) Binod Kanungo (1986) Chitra Naik (1986) Abdur Rahman (1986) Nuchhungi Renthlei (1986) Raghunath Sharma (1986) Abdul Sattar (1987) Nazir Ahmed (1987) Vanaja Iyengar (1987) Khawlkungi (1987) Badri Narayan (1987) Debi Prasanna Pattanayak (1987) Sant Singh Sekhon (1987) N. Khelchandra Singh (1987) Madaram Brahma (1988) Nissim Ezekiel (1988) K. M. George (1988) Mario Miranda (1988) Vidya Niwas Mishra (1988) Ali Jawad Zaidi (1988) Kalim Aajiz (1989) Barsane Lal Chaturvedi (1989) Anita Desai (1989) Moti Lal Saqi (1989) Rongbong Terang (1989) V. Venkatachalam (1989)
1990s	M. Aram (1990) Vijay Kumar Chopra (1990) Behram Contractor (1990) Radha Mohan Gadanayak (1990) Madhav Yeshwant Gadkari (1990) Yashpal Jain (1990) Sharad Joshi (1990) Kanhiyalal Prabhakar Mishra (1990) Gopi Chand Narang (1990) Dagdu Maruti Pawar (1990) Nilmani Phookan Jr (1990) Shyam Singh Shashi (1990) Ram Nath Shastri (1990) Bharat Bhushan (yogi) (1991) Kapil Deva Dvivedi (1991) B. K. S. Iyengar (1991) Satish Chandra Kakati (1991) Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte (1991) Madan Lal Madhu (1991) Namdeo Dhondo Mahanor (1991) Keshav Malik (1991) Surendra Mohanty (1991) P. T. Narasimhachar (1991) V. G. Bhide (1992) Gulabdas Broker (1992) Krishna Chaithanya (1992) Rajammal P. Devadas (1992) Vasant Shankar Kanetkar (1992) V. C. Kulandaiswamy (1992) R. S. Lugani (1992) Shovana Narayan (1992) Nisith Ranjan Ray (1992) M. Kirti Singh (1992) B. K. Thapar (1992) Mark Tully (1992) B. N. Goswamy (1998) O. N. V. Kurup (1998) Lalsangzuali Sailo (1998) Gurdial Singh (1998) Narayan Gangaram Surve (1998) Ruskin Bond (1999) Shayama Chona (1999) G. P. Chopra (1999) Namdeo Dhasal (1999) Kanhaiya Lal Nandan (1999) Satya Vrat Shastri (1999) Rajkumar Jhalajit Singh (1999)
2000s	Grigoriy Lvovitch Bondarevsky (2000) P. S. Chawngthu (2000) Piloo Nowshir Jungalwalla (2000) Mandan Mishra (2000) Rehman Rahi (2000) K. P. Saxena (2000) Nabaneeta Dev Sen (2000) Elangbam Nilakanta Singh (2000) Bala V. Balachandran (2001) Jeelani Bano (2001) Manoj Das (2001) Javare Gowda (2001) Chandrashekhara Kambara (2001) Gnanananda Kavi (2001) Kumar Ketkar (2001) Ravindra Kumar (2001) Kalidas Gupta Riza (2001) Padma Sachdev (2001) Bhabendra Nath Saikia (2001) Vachnesh Tripathi (2001) Munirathna Anandakrishnan (2002) Gopal Chhotray (2002) Gyan Chand Jain (2002) Madhu Mangesh Karnik (2002) Ashok Ramchandra Kelkar (2002) V. K. Madhavan Kutty (2002) Turlapaty Kutumba Rao (2002) Kim Yang-shik (2002) Manzoor Ahtesham (2003) Jagdish Chaturvedi (2003) Motilal Jotwani (2003) Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad (2003) Tekkatte Narayan Shanbhag (2003) Shailendra Nath Shrivastava (2003) Pritam Singh (2003) Vairamuthu (2003) Hamlet Bareh (2004) Kumarpal Desai (2004) Tatyana Elizarenkova (2004) Anil Kumar Gupta (2004) Gowri Ishwaran (2004) Leeladhar Jagudi (2004) Sunita Jain (2004) Prithvi Nath Kaula (2004) Ayyappa Paniker (2004) P. Parameswaran (2004) Bal Samant (2004) Kanhaiyalal Sethia (2004) Ramesh Chandra Shah (2004) Heinrich von Stietencron (2004) Sudhir Tailang (2004) Dalip Kaur Tiwana (2004) Amiya Kumar Bagchi (2005) Shobhana Bhartia (2005) Manas Chaudhuri (2005) Darchhawna (2005) J. S. Grewal (2005) Amin Kamil (2005) Gadul Singh Lama (2005) Mammen Mathew (2005) S. B. Mujumdar (2005) Bilat Paswan Vihangam (2005) Ajeet Cour (2006) Sucheta Dalal (2006) Laltluangliana Khiangte (2006) Lothar Lutze (2006) Mrinal Pande (2006) Sugathakumari (2006) Sitanshu Yashaschandra (2006) Temsüla Ao (2007) Vijaydan Detha (2007) Bakul Harshadrai Dholakia (2007) Amitav Ghosh (2007) Meenakshi Gopinath (2007) Giriraj Kishore (2007) Shekhar Pathak (2007) Pratibha Ray (2007) Rostislav Rybakov (2007) Vikram Seth (2007) Vaali (2007) Sivanthi Adithan (2008) Bina Agarwal (2008) Vellayani Arjunan (2008) Nirupam Bajpai (2008) Surjya Kanta Hazarika (2008) Vinod Dua (2008) M. Leelavathy (2008) Amitabh Mattoo (2008) Bholabhai Patel (2008) Rajdeep Sardesai (2008) Sukhadeo Thorat (2008) Srinibash Udgata (2008) Suresh Gundu Amonkar Abhay Chhajlani Birendra Nath Datta Shashi Deshpande Bannanje Govindacharya Panchapakesa Jayaraman Mathoor Krishnamurty Jayanta Mahapatra Laxman Mane John Ralston Marr Alok Mehta A. Sankara Reddy Lalthangfala Sailo Ngawang Samten Ranbir Chander Sobti Ram Shankar Tripathi
2010s	Lalzuia Colney (2010) Maria Aurora Couto (2010) Romuald D'Souza (2010) Bertha Gyndykes Dkhar (2010) Surendra Dubey (2010) Sadiq-ur-Rahman Kidwai (2010) Hermann Kulke (2010) Ramaranjan Mukherji (2010) Govind Chandra Pande (2010) Mrs YGP (2010) Sheldon Pollock (2010) Arun Sarma (2010) Jitendra Udhampuri (2010) Granville Austin (2011) Mahim Bora (2011) Urvashi Butalia (2011) Pullella Sriramachandrudu (2011) Mamang Dai (2011) Pravin Darji (2011) Chandra Prakash Deval (2011) Deviprasad Dwivedi (2011) Balraj Komal (2011) Krishna Kumar (2011) Rajni Kumar (2011) Devanur Mahadeva (2011) Barun Mazumder (2011) Ritu Menon (2011) Avvai Natarajan (2011) Bhalchandra Nemade (2011) Karl Harrington Potter (2011) Koneru Ramakrishna Rao (2011) Devi Dutt Sharma (2011) Nilamber Dev Sharma (2011) Geeta Dharmarajan (2012) Eberhard Fischer (2012) Kedar Gurung (2012) Surjit Patar (2012) Sachchidanand Sahai (2012) Allan Sealy (2012) Pepita Seth (2012) Vijay Dutt Shridhar (2012) Ralte L. Thanmawia (2012) Anvita Abbi (2013) Nida Fazli (2013) Radhika Herzberger (2013) Noboru Karashima (2013) Salik Lucknawi (2013) J. Malsawma (2013) Devendra Patel (2013) Christopher Pinney (2013) Mohammad Sharaf-e-Alam (2013) Rama Kant Shukla (2013) Jagdish Prasad Singh (2013) Akhtarul Wasey (2013) Naheed Abidi (2014) Ashok Chakradhar (2014) Keki N. Daruwalla (2014) G. N. Devy (2014) Kolakaluri Enoch (2014) Ved Kumari Ghai (2014) Manorama Jafa (2014) Rehana Khatoon (2014) P. Kilemsungla (2014) Sengaku Mayeda (2014) Waikhom Gojen Meitei (2014) Vishnunarayanan Namboothiri (2014) Dinesh Singh (2014) Huang Baosheng (2015) Bettina Bäumer (2015) Lakshmi Nandan Bora (2015) Jean-Claude Carrière (2015) Gyan Chaturvedi (2015) Raj Chetty (2015) Bibek Debroy (2015) Ashok Gulati (2015) George L. Hart (2015) Sunil Jogi (2015) Usha Kiran Khan (2015) Narayana Purushothama Mallaya (2015) Lambert Mascarenhas (2015) Taarak Mehta (2015) Ram Bahadur Rai (2015) J. S. Rajput (2015) Bimal Kumar Roy (2015) Annette Schmiedchen (2015) Gunvant Shah (2015) Brahmdev Sharma (2015) Dhirendra Nath Bezbaruah (2016) S. L. Bhyrappa (2016) Kameshwar Brahma (2016) Jawahar Lal Kaul (2016) Sal Khan (2016) Ashok Malik (2016) Haldhar Nag (2016) Pushpesh Pant (2016) Dahyabhai Shastri (2016) Prahlad Chandra Tasa (2016) Anant Agarwal (2017) Eli Ahmed (2017) Michel Danino (2017) Narendra Kohli (2017) Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri (2017) Kashi Nath Pandita (2017) Vishnu Pandya (2017) V. G. Patel (2017) H.R. Shah (2017) Chamu Krishna Shastry (2017) Bhawana Somaaya (2017) Punam Suri (2017) Harihar Kripalu Tripathi (2017) G. Venkatasubbiah (2017) Prafulla Govinda Baruah (2018) Shyamlal Chaturvedi (2018) Arup Kumar Dutta (2018) Arvind Gupta (2018) Digamber Hansda (2018) Anwar Jalalpuri (2018) Piyong Temjen Jamir (2018) Joyasree Goswami Mahanta (2018) Zaverilal Mehta (2018) Tomio Mizokami (2018) Habibullo Rajabov (2018) Vagish Shastri (2018) Maharao Raghuveer Singh (2018) A Zakia (2018) Narsingh Dev Jamwal (2019) Nagindas Sanghavi (2019) Mohammed Hanif Khan Shastri (2019) Devendra Swarup (2019)
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