You know you’re getting old and unbearably respectable when the hipsters of your gen the guys who struck out, did their own thing, beat a new path begin to get government awards.

And yesterday when ace photographers Pablo Bartholomew, Sooni Taroporevala and fashion designer Wendell Rodricks went up to collect their Padma Shris was when a collective group of their friends and college pals must have realised that it was officially time to hang up their free rollin boots and get rocking chairs.