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33 rd ANNUAL REPORT 2020-21 31 AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS SanjeevV. Dhurandhar Samir Dhurde Neeraj Gupta, and team Jayant V. Narlikar T. Padmanabhan Kanak Saha, Shyam N. Tandon, and team Fellow, American Physical Society, for foundational contributions to the theoretical underpinnings of gravitational wave detection, especially in data analysis techniques, and for the development of India's gravitational wave community leading to LIGO– India, September 2020. Astronomical Society of India's Zubin Kembhavi Award, for public outreach and education in astronomy and allied fields, shared with Vivek Monteiro. AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize (2021), for Keith W. Bannister, Adam T. Deller, Chris Phillips, Jean- Pierre Macquart, …, Neeraj Gupta, et al. (2019) A single fast radio burst localized to a massive galaxy at cosmological distance, Sci, 365, 565, [https://www.aaas.org/awards/newcomb-cleveland-prize/about ]. President, 94 Akhil BharatiyaMarathi Sahitya Sammelan (94 All IndiaMarathi LiteraryMeet). KrishnajiMedal (LectureAward), NationalAcademy of Sciences, India Fifth Prize in the Gravity Research Foundation Essay Contest (2020) for Principle of equivalence at Planck scales and the zero-point length of spacetime: A synergistic description of quantum matter and geometry, IJMPD, 29, 2042005. New Discovery Award, for their work on detection of Lyman continuum emission from a z = 1.42 galaxy using AstroSat. · · th th