Professor Mani Bhaumik, of the University of California at Los Angeles, USA, is the foremost of Indian living physicists. But to everybody's utter chagrin, he has not received any national honour from the Government of India.
The same is the case with legendary filmmaker the late Ritwik Ghatak. While all his contemporary fellow filmmakers were recognised nationally (Satyajit Ray with Bharat Ratna, Mrinal Sen with Padma Bhushan, Adoor Gopalkrishnan with Padma Vibhushan), Ritwik Ghatak never received any of the Padma awards in his lifetime, even posthumously. But this great filmmaker is revered by intellectuals all over India as a legend.
It is not really understandable why the Padma awards committees cant see them for years.
