Grammy Award
- Context: Tibetan spiritual leader and Nobel laureate 14th Dalai Lama formally received his Grammy Award.
- The award was won for the spoken-word album Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Grammy Recognition
- Won at the Grammy Awards 2026 in the Best Audio Book, Narration and Storytelling Recording category.
Maan Bahadur Singh Lakak Samman
- Perumal Murugan was awarded the ‘Maan Bahadur Singh Lakak Samman’.
- A Tamil writer renowned for works such as ‘One Part Woman’ (Madhorubagan) and ‘Pyre’ (Pookkuzhi), he receives this award for the year 2026 on behalf of the ‘Indian Languages Unity Forum’ (Indhiya Mozhigal Otrumai Mandram).
