CNN-IBN Indian of the Year

CNN-IBN's Indian of the Year
Awarded for An honour that embodies Greatness
Country India
Presented by CNN-IBN
First awarded 2006
Official website indianoftheyear.com

The CNN-IBN Indian of the Year is an award presented annually to various Indians for their work in their respective fields by the Indian media house CNN-IBN. The awards are presented in various categories of Politics, Sports, Business, Entertainment, Public Service and Global Indian. It is the brainchild of world renowned news traders Padmashri Rajdeep Sardesai and Sagarika Ghose.

In its 9th edition, ‘CNN-IBN Indian of the Year’ has cemented its position as the biggest awards in the domain of News television and an institution of impeccable credibility.

The awards adhere to a robust selection procedure in selecting the awardees, that begins with an editorially driven nomination process overseen by our Editorial Board leading to the final selection of winners by a Jury consisting of a select group of distinguished personalities.

In addition to the traditional award categories of Politics, Business, Sports, Entertainment, Public Service and Global Indian, a new category, that of a ‘CNN-IBN Indian of the Year - Popular Choice’ has been introduced in the ninth edition, where one awardee will be chosen from the 35 nominees across categories basis the votes received from public through Facebook.

Winners

Year Person Politics Sports Business Entertainment Public Service Global Indian
2006 Manmohan Singh Manmohan Singh Jeev Milkha Singh Ratan Tata Rajkumar Hirani Arvind Kejriwal Indra Nooyi
2007 E. SreedharanP. Chidambaram Viswanathan Anand O. P. Bhatt Shimit Amin and Jaideep Sahni E Sreedharan Arun Sarin
2008 ChandrayanNitish Kumar Abhinav Bindra Aditya Puri Aamir Khan Team Chandrayaan A. R. Rahman
2009 A R RahmanRahul Gandhi Saina Nehwal Satyam Revival Team A. R. Rahman Pratham ---
2010 Nitish Kumar Nitish Kumar Sushil Kumar Kumar Mangalam Birla S. Shankar Ladakh Ecological Development Group & Seeds India ---
2011 Anna Hazare Mamata Banerjee Mahendra Singh Dhoni Dilip Shanghvi Amitabh Bachchan and team KBC Binalakshmi Nepram, Founder of the Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network ---
2012 Viswanathan AnandManohar Parrikar Viswanathan Anand Yusuf Hamied Irrfan Khan Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty ---
2013 Stop Acid Attacks Arvind Kejriwal P. V. Sindhu[1] Rajiv Bajaj Kapil Sharma[2] ADR & Lily Thomas[3][4] ---
2014[5] Narendra Modi Arun Jaitley Jitu Rai N Chandrasekaran Chetan Bhagat Tongam Rina Satya Nadella

Special awards

1. 2007 Lifetime Achievement - R K Laxman Cartoonist
2. 2008 Lifetime Achievement - Dilip Kumar Actor

3. 2009 Lifetime Achievement - Pandit Ravi Shankar

4. 2010 Lifetime Achievement - M. S. Swaminathan
5. 2011 Lifetime Achievement - Verghese Kurien

6. 2013 Lifetime Achievement - Heroes of Rezang La, 1962

7. 2013 Outstanding Achievement - Leander Paes[1]

8. 2014 Winners

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Leander Paes and Ramakant Achrekar named CNN-IBN Indian of the Year". Yahoo News. 22 December 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Kapil Sharma honoured with Indian of the Year award". Times of India. 22 December 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  3. ↑ "INDIAN OF THE YEAR 2013". CNN IBN.
  4. ↑ "Stop Acid Attacks is Indian of the Year, Arvind Kejriwal wins for politics". IBN LIVE. 21 December 2013.
  5. ↑ http://ibnlive.in.com/news/list-of-winners-of-indian-of-the-year-2014/534516-3.html