Lucknow, April 29 -- Four of the 113 people who were conferred Padma Shri by President Droupadi Murmu on Monday, are from Uttar Pradesh. The awards were presented at a ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi.

The winners are Shyam Bihari Agrawal (Art), Hriday Narayan Dixit (Literature and Education), Ganeshwar Shastri Dravid (Literature and Eduation) and Satyapal Singh (Sports).

Shyam Bihari Agrawal

Shyam Bihari Agrawal is a distinguished artist, academician, and art historian whose contributions to Indian painting and visual arts span over six decades. Born in 1942, in Sirsa in Prayagraj, Agrawal pursued his formal training at Allahabad University's Department of Painting and later refined his skills at the Government College...