DTV honours 25 Greatest Global Living Indian Legends as it turns 25
In a first, NDTV organised the awards
ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhawan where the legends were felicitated
by the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee
Delhi | December 16, 2013
NDTV’s 25 Greatest Global Indian Living Legends. Click on the image to enlarge.
A pioneer in India’s news
television, NDTV marked its 25 years of credible, dedicated and path
breaking news broadcasting on December 14 by acknowledging 25 Greatest
Global Indian Living Legends for their outstanding contribution in
association with Tata Consultancy Services, one of the world’s top
technology firms. For the first time ever, the Nation witnessed the
coming together of twenty five Indian Living Legends on the centre
stage. The legends were acknowledged and felicitated by the Honourable
President of India, Pranab Mukherjee at an awards ceremony held
by NDTV at the Rashtrapati Bhawan.
NDTV’s 25 Greatest Global Living Indian Legends
o Amitabh Bachchan
o Anish Kapur
o Amartya Sen
o A R Rahman
o CNR Rao
o Ela Bhatt
o Fali Nariman
o Indira Nooyi
o Hari Prasad Chaursia
o Kapi Dev
o Leander Paes
o M S Swaminathan
o Mukesh Ambani
o N R Narayanmurthy
o Rajinikanth
o Ratan Tata
o Sachin Tendulkar
o Dr SS Badrinath
o S H Raza
o Shahrukh Khan
o Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
o Vikram Seth
o Waheeda Rehman
o Y K Hamied
o Zubin Mehta
Presenting the awards, President of India,
Pranab Mukherjee, said, “It’s indeed a pleasure for me to be amidst you
this evening and to be associated with recognizing these 25 great
Indians. While going through their introduction and some of their
comments I found out that one striking commonality in all of them that
each and every one of them believes in hard work, honesty, commitment to
the job, idea to which they furnish. Therefore what is needed today and
what we can draw lessons from the outstanding performance of these 25
great Indians that we cannot have a shortcut or a bypass to achieve the
success, to reach the top, to be the models of others.”
Addressing the ceremony, Dr, Prannoy Roy,
Executive Co-chairperson, said, “Am here tonight on behalf of everybody
at NDTV to thank every single one of you for your trust in us. When we
started the first private news on Indian television we were a bundle of
nerves, you gave us strength at that time. When we produced India’s
first 24 hour news channel 15 years ago, you trusted us then too and we
value that trust till today. Tabloidization is a worry but I feel there
is a back lash now. We hope and pray that sponsors and advertisers will
give greater weightage to content and avoid promoting tabloidization.
Finally looking ahead at the next 5 years, we believe that soft power
will become as important as hardware in global conflict. The time has
come to launch India’s version of CNN or BBC or Al Jazeera. NDTV as a
truly global channel in our sights, we need your faith, your support and
trust in this venture too. In a word what brings lump to our throats is
simply your trust. To cap all our emotions today, the 25 Greatest
Indian Living Legends have all come here tonight and just by accepting
our invitation, they have given the one most valuable thing – their
Trust.”
