He was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 2001, becoming the third classical musician after M. S. Subbulakshmi and Ravi Shankar to be accorded this distinction.
Ramanuja Tatacharya (1928–2017) was a renowned Sanskrit scholar from India.
 He received the Chevalier of Légion d'honneur which is the highest civilian honour of France.
 He is a researcher at the French Institute of Pondicherry.
 He is a former Vice Chancellor of the Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, and currently lives in Mumbai.
 He received most recently the Padma Bhushan, India’s third highest civilian honour by the Government of India in 2016 for his contribution to the field of Sanskrit literature and education.
The Padma Bhushan is the third highest civilian honour of the Republic of India, preceded by the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri.
 Presented by the Government of India since 1954 for "distinguished service of a high order", without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex, the award consists of a certificate and a medallion and the recipient's name is registered in "The Gazette of India".
 When instituted, the Padma Bhushan was classified as "Dusra Warg", a class-two award under the three-tier Padma Vibhushan awards, which were preceded by the Bharat Ratna in hierarchy.
 On 15January 1955, the Padma Vibhushan was reclassified into three different awards as the Padma Vibhushan, the highest of the three, followed by the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Shri.
 The Padma Bhushan, along with other personal civilian honours, was briefly suspended twice since its inception; for the first time in July 1977 and the suspension was annulled on 25 January 1980 by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
 The civilian awards were suspended again in mid-1992 for it being "titles" per an interpretation of of the Constitution of India.
 On 25 August 1992, the Madhya Pradesh High Court issued a notice temporarily suspending all civilian awards.
 On 15 December 1995, the Special Division Bench restored the awards and delivered a judgment that the "Bharat Ratna and Padma awards are not titles under Article 18 of the Constitution of India".
Anil Kohli is an Indian dental surgeon, medical administrator and a former president of the Dental Council of India.
 He is an elected fellow of the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and holds the honorary rank of 'Brigadier' in the Army Dental Corps.
 He is a recipient of B. C. Roy Award, the highest Indian award in the medical category.
 The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honor of the Padma Shri in 1992 and followed it up with the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 2005, for his contributions to medicine, making him the first dentist to receive both the honors.
Manjunath Cholenahally Nanjappa is an Indian cardiologist and the director of the Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research.
 He is reported to have developed a new protocol in balloon mitral valvuloplasty and is credited with the performance of the highest number of such procedures using Accura balloon catheter in India.
 He is a recipient of the 1998 Rajyotsava Prashasti, the second highest civilian award of the Government of Karnataka.
 The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2007, for his contributions to Indian medicine.
Asis Datta is an Indian biochemist, molecular biologist and genetic engineer, known for his researches on genetically modified foods and food nutritional security.
 He is the founder Director of the National Institute of Plant Genome Research and is credited with the discovery of genes that assist in extended preservation of fruits and vegetables.
 He is a recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, the highest Indian award and in the Science category, and was awarded the fourth highest civilian award of the Padma Shri, by the Government of India, in 1999.
 In 2008, he was included again in the Republic Day Honours list for the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan.
Supriya Choudhury (born 8 January 1935) is an Indian Bengali actress, who is known for her work in Bengali cinema for more than 50 years.
 She is best known for her portrayal of Neeta in Ritwik Ghatak's Bengali film "Megha Dhaka Tara" (1960).
 In 2011 she received Banga-Vibhushan, the highest civilian honour in West Bengal.
 In 2014, She was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India, the fourth highest civilian award in India, for her contributions to the entertainment industry.
Tehemton Erach Udwadia is a Parsi Indian surgeon and gastroenterologist, considered by many as the father of laparoscopic surgery in India.
 He is a general surgeon at two Mumbai hospitals, Breach Candy Hospital and Hinduja Hospital and is the founder president of the Indian Association of Gastrointestinal Endo-Surgeons.
 The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan in 2017 and the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2006, for his contributions to Indian medicine.
Mahipathi Madhwacharya Joshi (born 1935) is an Indian ophthalmologist and the founder of "M. M. Joshi Eye Institute" ("Padma Nayanalaya"), a 75-bedded super-specialty eye hospital, located in Hubli and Dharwad, and the largest in the region.
 The first post graduate private practitioner in the state of Karnataka, he is one of the founders of "Karnataka Ophthalmic Society" and a recipient of Rajyotsava Prashasti, the second highest civilian award of the Government of Karnataka.
 The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2016, for his contributions to medicine.
Ka Karoon Sajni Aye Na Baalam is a classical song of Hindustani classical music.
 It is a Thumri sung in the raaga, Sindh Bhairavi Thumri.
 It was popularised by legendary Hindustani vocalist, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Barkat Ali Khan, Bismillah Khan on shehnai, Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty etc.

Question: Ka Karoon Sajni Aaye Na Baalam was made popular by someone who won India's highest civilian honour known as what?
Answer: the Bharat Ratna