<P> In April 2006 Anand became the fourth player in history to pass the 2800 Elo mark on the FIDE rating list, after Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik and Veselin Topalov . He occupied the number one position for 21 months, the 6th longest on record . </P> <P> Anand was also the first recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 1991--92, India's highest sporting honour . In 2007, he was awarded India's second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan, making him the first sportsperson to receive the award . </P> <P> Viswanathan Anand was born on 11 December 1969 at Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Nadu in a Tamil family . where he grew up . His father Krishnamurthy Viswanathan, a retired general manager of Southern Railways, had studied in Jamalpur, Bihar, and his mother Susila was a housewife, chess aficionado and an influential socialite . </P> <P> Anand is the youngest of 3 children . He is 11 years younger than his sister and 13 years younger than his brother . His elder brother, Shivakumar, is a manager at Crompton Greaves in India and his elder sister, Anuradha, is a professor in the United States at the University of Michigan . </P>

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