V.K Rajasekharan Pillai, a leading Indian businessman and philanthropist in Bahrain and the recipient of the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award, was honoured at a public reception at his hometown Mannnar in the Indian state of Kerala in February. Indian politician and Kerala Assembly Opposition Leader Ramesh Chennithala gave a memento while Indian MP Kodikkunnil Suresh presented a ceremonial shawl
