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- ↑ UNESCO: Noma Prize winner, 1985
- ↑ India, Ministry of Human Resource Development: Noma Prize winner, 1993. Archived 2010-12-18 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Govt. of India, Press Information Bureau: Noma Prize winner, 1999
