The highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna, is the most prestigious award of the Republic of India. The Bharat Ratna is awarded as the exceptional performance or service of the highest order.

There is no doubt that this award is supreme in itself and the person i.e. the awardee who is awarded the Bharat Ratna has played a significant and immortal role in their field and serves to the utmost level.

When Bharat Ratna got Suspended...
Specifications of the Bharat Ratna
Facts about Bharat Ratna in a Glance-
Here’s a list of awardees for the Bharat Ratna Till Date-

My Views on the Bharat Ratna Award & the Awardees-

Also, Bharat Ratnais awarded to the person for their service irrespective of occupation, sex, race, position.

When this award was initiated for the first time, it majorly focuses on the achievements limited to arts, literature, science, and public services but in December 2011, the government broaden the criteria to “ any field of human endeavor.”

Maximum three awardees can be selected for Bharat Ratna in a year. Prime Minister is the one who recommends the name of the nominee for Bharat Ratna to the President.

Along with other civil honors, the Bharat Ratna got briefly suspended for three years from July 1977 to January 1980 because it was the time when the national government is changing and new amendments were forming.

Furthermore, it again(August 1992 to December 1995) got suspended when certain PILs challenged the constitutional validity of certain civil honors along with the Bharat Ratna.

The current award is looking like a peepal leaf, around 2+516 inches (59 mm) long, 1+78 inches (48 mm) wide, and 18 inches (3.2 mm) thick and rimmed in platinum.

The emblazoned sunburst configuration, made of platinum, on the front side of the decoration has a measurement of 58 inches (16 mm) with beams fanning out from 56 inches (21 mm) to 12 inches (13 mm) from the focal point of the Sun.

- In the order of precedence, the recipients of Bharat Ratna are ranked on the number seventh.

- The recipients of the Bharat Ratna also receive a certificate called Sanad, signed by the president.

- There is nothing like a Nomination process for selecting the awardees. Instead, The Prime Minister recommends the names for the nominations to The President.

- Bharat Ratna is awarded irrespective of gender, race, power, sex.

- This award is awarded to the person for their exceptional service or performance of the supreme order.

Name of the Awardee                                                        Year

C. Rajagopalachari                                                             1954

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan                                                 1954

C. V. Raman                                                                         1954

Bhagwan Das                                                                      1955

M. Visvesvaraya                                                                 1955

Jawaharlal Nehru                                                               1955

Govind Ballabh Pant                                                          1957

Dhondo Keshav Karve                                                       1958

Bidhan Chandra Roy                                                          1961

Purushottam Das Tandon                                                1961

Rajendra Prasad                                                                1962

Zakir Husain                                                                       1963

Pandurang Vaman Kane                                                   1963

Lal Bahadur Shastri                                                           1966

Indira Gandhi                                                                       1971

V.V Giri                                                                                  1975

K. Kamaraj                                                                           1976

Mother Teresa                                                                     1980

Vinoba Bhave                                                                      1983

Abdul Ghaffar Khan                                                           1987

M.G. Ramachandran                                                          1988

B.R. Ambedkar                                                                    1990

Nelson Mandela                                                                 1990

Rajiv Gandhi                                                                        1991

Vallabhbhai Patel                                                               1991

Morarji Desai                                                                       1991

Abul Kalam Azad                                                                1992

J.R.D. Tata                                                                            1992

Satyajit Ray                                                                          1992

Gulzarilal Nanda                                                                 1997

Aruna Asaf Ali                                                                     1997

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam                                                             1997

M.S. Subbulakshmi                                                            1998

Chidambaram Subramaniam                                           1998

Jayaprakash Narayan                                                        1999

Amartya Sen                                                                        1999

Gopinath Bordoloi                                                               1999

Ravi Shankar                                                                        1999

Lata Mangeshkar                                                                2001

Bismillah Khan                                                                    2001

Bhimsen Joshi                                                                    2009

C.N.R. Rao                                                                           2014

Sachin Tendulkar                                                                2014

Madan Mohan Malaviya                                                    2015

Atal Bihari Vajpayee                                                           2015

Pranab Mukherjee                                                              2019

Bhupen Hazarika                                                                2019

Nanaji Deshmukh                                                               2019

The Bharat Ratna is considered the highest civilian award in our country and I believe the awardees who have been awarded the Bharat Ratna have selflessly served their service for the nation not only in the field of art & literature but also in sports and politics too.

One of the major things I love about Bharat Ratna is that it is awarded to the person and their service irrespective of their occupation, gender, race, and sex.