Dear Dr. Gupta,

Congratulations on this meritorious achievement.

Warm regards
Christopher Viegas

Dear Dr Ashok Gupta

Congratulations on your achievements. it is indeed a great honor and we are proud of your skills and accolades.

Dr. Shehnaz Arsiwala

Dear Dr. Ashok Gupta,

Many thanx for this information. This is indeed a proud moment for all of us who have known you.

We are unanimous in saying that you truly deserve this award. WELL DONE SIR.

Best wishes to you and Dr.Kanchan and Piyush and Akshya.

Regards,
Ramon and Baku Abrol.

Hello Dr. Ashok,

Thanks for your e-mail. It is a great honour to receive Padma shri award. You truly deserve it!!!

I am privileged to know you.

All the best & make our country proud.

Thanks & best regards,
Nainesh Mehta

Dear Ashok

My compliments. This award is very well for you because your professionality is big and your feel for poor people is known in the world. My compliments, my heart is for your magic and great indian people.

Pier Antonio Bacci,
President Italian Acadey of Beauty, Italy

Good Morning Dr Gupta,

My morning couldn’t have started any better. It’s the best news I could get. I am so happy for you.

So good deeds do pay in life.
You are a live example.
Congratulations to you & your family.
I am now looking forward to meeting you.

Also please send me your cell number so I can talk to you.
Until then, take care.
See you soon.

Regards
Sunita Nath

Dear Dr. Ashok,

Hearty congratulations for this well deserved award.

May god bless you and your family. Looking forward to see you.

Best Regards
Mahaveer Mehta and Manu
Dermatologist, Dubai

Dear Ashok/AKG

Heartiest congratulations to you and family for Padma Shri Award, a rare honour in deed.

Aruna, Neeraj, Rajiv and our friend circle joins us in these best wishes to you all.

We are sure you will be keeping up all the excellent work with renewed vigour.

Best wishes,
Bal Mukund Bhala

Dear Ashok,

Wonderful!  Congratulations for a well-deserved honor! 

Warmest regards,
Sheryl Perry, MD
USA

Hello Dr. Gupta,

It is with great joy that I read the good news of you being awarded the Padma Shree. With all the positive work that you have been doing, it is a well deserved award. It makes us feel happy that your work gets the recognition. Please accept my mother's best wishes as well - she remembers you for being a friend and mentor to my sister, Meena Pole, and for helping her get into Bombay Hospital, when she was not well, during her last trip to Mumbai.
CONGRATULATIONS again!

Best Regards,
Prithviraj (Prith) Pole

Dear Dr. Gupta:

I was extremely happy to read this fantastic news. "Hearty Congratulations" to you & may the Lord always give you more than what you give to others, as you sincerely deserve it! 

Best wishes & Congratulations again, from me & my family.
With Respect,
Meena Neina Pole

Dear Ashok,

Congratulations on the incredible National Recognition for your contribution to Indian Society.

I realize the “Padma Shri Award” by the President of India is the honor of a lifetime. A man can do no more than to use the opportunities given him by his parents and by the gifts of intelligence bestowed upon him at birth.

I hope your inner sense of satisfaction is achieved and that the humility of this occasion sets an example to all Plastic surgeons.

Best Wishes,
Bryan Mendelson
Past President, ISAPS  

Dear Ashok,

On behalf of ISAPS and myself I want to congratulate you for the highest recognition and award received by the President of India.

We are aware of your tremendous achievement in the field of plastic and reconstructive surgery in your country and therefore appreciate and respect that very much. As a Society we are proud of you and wish you a good luck in your efforts to advance our specialty in your country and worldwide.

Warmest regards
Miodrag Colic
Secretary General, ISAPS

Dear Dr. Gupta,

Congratulations on a well-deserved honor for all of your hard work and dedication.

Those of us who know you are very proud of your accomplishments and hold you in high esteem. 

Keep up the good work!  
Sincerely,
JAMES H. CARRAWAY

Dear Dr. Gupta,

What a great honor, what a joy!

Let me congratulate on behalf of IPRAS but also personally for this wonderful achievement!

Enjoy this time of pleasure and leisure, we make you work hard for the rest of this year!

Warmest regards  
Marita

Dear Ashok,

Congratulations to you and your family for your having received the coveted honour, the "Padma Shri Award," which you so richly deserve.

This is a celebration also for worldwide plastic and reconstructive surgery, for India and you, its remarkable ambassador.

Tanya and I send you our affection and we wish we were with you to give you a special hug.

Sincerely,
Tanya and Robert M. Goldwyn
Tatyana Goldwyn
54 Willow Crescent
Brookline, Massachusetts  02445
Tel: 617 - 734-3122
Fax: 617 - 734-4272
E-mail: tatyanarfa@comcast.net

Dear Ashok,

Congratulations! It is a great and grand honor to know you and to know you have done such long, great and touching things in our field. I am proud to be one of your friends.

Looking forward to seeing you again soon so that I can say congratulations, face to face, to you again!

Best wishes,
Yu-Ray
Professor, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University

Dear Ashok,

Heart-felt congratulations. This is an honor that is greatly deserved.

You are also a great ambassador for your country and for the spirit of Plastic Surgery.

Best regards
Peter

Dear Ashok,

Congratulations for this outstanding Prize that you really deserve.
I know your work and I am proud of you.

Kind regards from
Carlos Uebel
VITOR HOGO ST.,
78 PORTO ALEGRE
90630-070
Brazil

Dear Ashok:

Congratulations for being honoured with Padma shree.
May God bless you.

Sincerely,
Satish C. Vyas M.D.
Plastic Surgery Clinic P.C.
22190, Garrison Street - Suite #301
Dearborn, Michigan 48124
Phone # 313 - 277 - 0500
Fax # 313 - 277 - 1760
www.artisticsurgeon.com

Dear Dr.Ashok

My hearty congratulation and wish you all the success

Best Regards
Dr. Ali Al Numairy
N S of ISAPS for UAE.

All my congrratulations, Ashok.

I am proud to be one of your friends.

Best regards,
Dr. Yann Levet.
Paris

Dear Dr. Gupta,

Please accept my sincere congratulations for this reward by the president of India, I think this is an honor for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Worldwide to have a well known and respected member in our specialty.

Congratulations again on behalf of my self and all Jordanian members of ISAPS in the Hashimite Kingdom of JORDAN.

M. Shahateet MD.FRCS, 
N S of ISAPS for Jordan.

Dear Dr Gupta

Many congratulations to you and to your family for receiving the highest honour of “Padma Shri Award” by the “HE President of India”. Wishing you all the best in the future

Dr. AHMED S. MAKKI
P. O. BOX: 3304
DOHA
QATAR

Skillful surgery is something that your professional training requires you to do. Your charitable work is something that your compassion to less fortunate fellow beings prompts you to do.

This has been rewarded by the prestigious award, which needs recognition by the profession as well! I add my hearty congratulations to you and your wife.

Vasant Oswal, MB, MS, FRCS, DLO, DORL
Treasurer and Chairman of Education Committee
British Medical Laser Association, UK.
Correspondence
Far Shirby, Upleatham, Redcar, Cleveland, TS11 8AG, UK
T: +44 (0) 1287 622000

Dear Dr. Gupta

I was pleased to learn that you have added another feather to your cap.

Congratulations for the award Dr Ashok Gupta of the prestigious Padma Shri You deserve it for all the hard work and selflessness.

Dr Ugburo Andrew
Consultant plastic Surgeon
Lagos University Teaching Hospital
Nigeria

Dear Dr. Gupta,

Kindly accept our Heartiest Congratulations on being awarded Padma Shri by Government of India. It is indeed an honor for the Plastic Surgery fraternity.

I have returned to USA. I am very much thankful for your hospitality during the conference which I thoroughly enjoyed. If there is anything I can do, let me know.

With regards,
Balvant Arora, MD 

Dear Dr Ashok,

I am delighted to know about the news of the PADAMSHRI award to you. Accept my heartiest congratulations for this which you definitely deserve it.

GOD BLESSES YOU WITH FUTURE PROGRESS IN YOUR ACADEMIC CARRER AND THE PERSONAL LIFE.

I hope to see you In APRAS 2009

kind regds
DR GANG

Dear Ashok

What a beautiful presentation of your award and more so, of your wonderful
accomplishment and feat.  I do wish I could have been present at the award ceremony, but I am celebrating accordingly here for the extreme honor of knowing and associating with a man of your stature. 

The Padma Shri Award recipient for this year was rightly chosen and I am certain that you will continue to humble yourself and concentrate on the many works that you're involved in, despite your luminous and diverse background.

Congratulations on this wonderful accomplishment. I wish you all the best and look forward to seeing you at next year's tutorial.

Best Regards,
Cheng-Jen
Taiwan

Congratulations To Dr Akg

Hope He Will Allways Be Leading To More Success And Prosperity

Prof Ahmed Adel Noreldin,
Cairo Univ,
Egypt

Dear sir,

I am indeed thrilled to hear that the padma shri has been awarded to you. this award has confirmed once again what we have always believed- that besides being one of the best plastic surgeons in india and abroad , you are also one of the finest human beings I have ever met. My family will always be indebted to you for all that you did for me. I take this opportunity to thank you once again and congratulate you on this wonderful achievement and pray that the almighty God will keep you happy and healthy and confer more such awards on you.

With best regards
Dr. Alex
Kuwait

Dear Dr. Gupta,

Congratulate on your well-deserved national recognition.

Your skills and talents have not only contributed to the various clinical and academic organizations, but also responded well to the call of urgency in all those events in India as a true citizen.

We at Mentor are privileged to have been associated with you in the education events over the years.

Larry Chen

Dear Prof.Gupta

Greetings from Taiwan Society for Surgery of the Hand.

I would like to address my most appreciation for your incredible accomplishment in your carrier. You deserve the highest honor of “Padma Shri Award”.

Regarding to your scientific and warmly contribution to the Indian citizens, you are the benchmark of reconstructive microsurgeon.

Sincerely Yours truly,
Chih-Hung Lin

Dear prof Gupta

Conguratulations.

This is a reward for your long and constant contributions for reconstructive surgery.

Isao Koshima