Sangeet Natak Akademi announces fellowships, awards
16 Jul 2019
The General Council of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, the National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama, New Delhi at its meeting held on 26 June 2019 at Guwahati, Assam unanimously elected four eminent personalities in the field of performing arts, namely, Zakir Hussain, Sonal Mansingh, Jatin Goswami and K Kalyanasundaram Pillai, for Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellow (Akademi Ratna).
- Mani Prasad - Hindustani Vocal
- Madhup Mudgal - Hindustani Vocal
- Tarun Bhattacharya - Hindustani Instrumental (Santoor)
- Tejendra Narayan Majumdar - Hindustani Instrumental (Sarod)
- Alamelu Mani - Carnatic Vocal
- Malladi Suribabu – Carnatic Vocal
- S Kasim and S Babu (Joint Award) - Carnatic Instrumental (Nagaswaram)
- Ganesh and Kumaresh (Joint Award) - Carnatic Instrumental (Violin)
- Suresh Wadkar - Other Major Traditions of Music (Sugam Sangeet)
- Shanti Hiranand - Other Major Traditions of Music (Sugam Sangeet)
- H Ashangbi Devi - Other Major Traditions of Music (Nata Sankirtana. Manipur).
- Radha Sridhar - Bharatanatyam
- Ishira and Maulik Shah (Joint Award) – Kathak
- Akham Lakshmi Devi – Manipuri
- Pasumurthy Ramalinga Sastry – Kuchipudi
- Surupa Sen – Odissi
- Tankeswar Hazarika Borbayan – Sattriya
- Gopika Varma – Mohiniattam
- Tapan Kumar Pattanayak – Chhau
- Deepak Mazumdar - Other Contemporary Dance
- Rajiv Naik – Playwriting
- Laltluangliana Khiangte – Playwriting
- Sanjay Upadhyay – Direction
- S Raghunandana – Direction
- Suhas Joshi – Acting
- Teekam Joshi – Acting
- Swapan Nandy – Mime
- Bhagawat AS Nanjappa – Other Major Traditions of Theatre – Yakshagana
- A M Parameswaran Kuttan Chakkiyar – Other Major Traditions of Theatre – Kutiyattam.
- Malini Awasthi - Folk Music (Uttar Pradesh)
- Gazi Khan Barna - Folk Music (Rajasthan)
- Narendar Singh Negi - Folk Song (Uttrakhand)
- Mohd Sadiq Bhagat - Folk Theatre (Bhand Pather) J&K
- Kota Sachidanand Shastry – Harikatha (Andhra Pradesh)
- Arjun Singh Dhruve - Folk Dance (Madhya Pradesh)
- Somnath Battu - Folk Music (Himachal Pradesh)
- Anupama Hoskere – Puppetry-String (Karnataka)
- Hem Chandra Goswami - Mask Making (Assam).