Reportedly known as the mother of trees or ‘Vriksha Mathe’, 106 year old Saalumarada Thimmakka from Karnataka on Saturday blessed the President as she received her Padma Shri award. Meanwhile the award ceremony, which was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and other notable dignitaries, followed the usual rigorous protocol.



Furthermore when President Ram Nath Kovind handed the award to Thimmakka, who is more than three decades older to him, had asked her to face the camera, she put her palm over the President’s forehead as a gesture of blessing and this prompted rapturous applause from the audience at the hall. Apparently the President took to Twitter to recall the gesture. He tweeted “At the Padma awards ceremony, it is the President’s privilege to honor India’s best and most deserving, but today he was deeply touched when Saalumarada Thimmakka, an environmentalist from Karnataka and at 106 the oldest Padma awardee this year, thought it fit to bless him”.

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Moreover he also said, “Saalumarada Thimmakka represents the resilience and determination and perseverance of the ordinary Indian citizen, especially of women in our country. May her example, and that of every Padma award, inspire our India to greater heights. Further after receiving her award, Thimakka also planted a sapling at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.


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