The India International Friendship Society (IIFS) is a private voluntary organisation based in

New Delhi New Delhi (, , ''Naī Dillī'') is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Parliament House ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. Its stated aim is to strengthen the ties between India and its

expatriate An expatriate (often shortened to expat) is a person who resides outside their native country. In common usage, the term often refers to educated professionals, skilled workers, or artists taking positions outside their home country, either ...

community in the hope of using the resources and potential of the expatriates to benefit India. The organisation's chief activity is the awarding of the Glory of India Award (also called the "Bharat Jyoti Award") in ceremonies held regularly in New Delhi and in international cities with large expatriate Indian communities. The validity of the awards has been called into question, based on the request for biographical data from award invitees accompanied by a request for the payment of a fee of Rs12,500.

Awardees

Among its awardees, IIFS counts the following prominent people: *

Dev Anand Dharamdev Pishorimal Anand (26 September 1923 – 3 December 2011), better known as Dev Anand, was an Indian actor, writer, director and producer known for his work in Hindi cinema, through a career that spanned over six decades. He was ...

* Prema Cariappa *

Sunil Dutt Sunil Dutt (born Balraj Dutt; 6 June 1929 — 25 May 2005) was an Indian actor, film producer, director and politician. Dutt was one of the major stars of Hindi cinema in the late 1950s and 1960s and continued to star in many successful film ...

* Shamim Jairajpuri *

Basappa Danappa Jatti Basappa Danappa Jatti () (10 September 1912 – 7 June 2002) was the fifth vice president of India, serving from 1974 to 1979. He was acting President of India from 11 February to 25 July 1977.He also served as the Chief Minister of Karnataka. ...

Rajesh Khanna Rajesh Khanna () (; born Jatin Khanna; 29 December 1942 – 18 July 2012) was an Indian actor, film producer and politician who worked in Hindi films. He is called as the "First Superstar of Hindi cinema", he consecutively starred in a record ...

* Owais Mohammad * Prem Chand Pandey * Kamlesh Patel *

Amichand Rajbansi Amichand Rajbansi (14 January 1942 – 29 December 2011) was a South African politician. He was a former Chairman of the Ministers' Council of the House of Delegates Tricameral parliamentary chamber for Indian people, and leader of the Minority ...

Dhirubhai Shah Dhirubhai Shah (18 December 1952–17 March 2008) was a politician from Gujarat who was elected speaker of the Tenth Gujarat Legislative Assembly from March 19, 1998, to December 27, 2002. He was the youngest speaker in the history of the Gujar ...

Chaudhary Ishwar Singh Chaudhary Ishwar Singh (1926-1998) was a leader of the Congress Party and served as the speaker of Haryana Vidhan Sabha from 1991–1996. He was elected as MLA for four times by the electorates of Pundri constituency of Haryana. He is well know ...

Marsha Singh Marsha Singh (11 October 1954 – 17 July 2012) was a British Labour Party politician, and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford West from 1997 to 2012. Singh stood down due to ill health. Singh had a degree in Languages, Politics and Eco ...

Ashok Sinha Ashok Sinha (born 8 November 1964) is a British environmental campaigner. Scientific and policy background Sinha studied physics at the University of Bristol and completed his PhD in renewable energy at Cambridge. Following this he spent a numbe ...

* R. Sowdhamini *

Nirmal Chandra Suri Air Chief Marshal Nirmal Chandra Suri, PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC (born 26 July 1933) was the 15th Chief of Air Staff of the Indian Air Force, from 31 July 1991 to 31 July 1993. He is an alumnus of the famous Royal Indian Military College, Deh ...

Harinder Takhar Harinder Jeet Singh Takhar (born ) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Ontario Liberal Party, Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2003 to 2018 who represented the ridings of Mississauga Centre (provincial e ...

Mother Teresa Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, MC (; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa ( sq, Nënë Tereza), was an Indian-Albanian Catholic nun who, in 1950, founded the Missionaries of Charity. Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu () was bo ...

* Pankaj Udhas *

Bharati Vaishampayan Bharati Vaishampayan (January 1, 1954 - January 19, 2020) https://www.pressreader.com/india/hindustan-times-st-mumbai/20200121/281917365038017 was a Hindustani classical music, Hindustani classical vocalist of the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana and t ...

Drukchen Jigme Pema Wangchen The 12th Gyalwang Drukpa, Jigmet Pema Wangchen (, born 1963), is the head of the Drukpa Lineage school, which is one of the independent Sarma (new) schools of Tibetan Buddhism. In Drukpa, druk means 'dragon' which is a symbol of love and peace. ...

References

External links

* {{official, http://www.iifsind.org Indian awards Indian diaspora