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Sangeet Natak Akademi awards presented New Delhi: Outstanding artists in the fields of music, dance, threatre, folk arts and puppetry have been presented the Sangeet Natak Akademi national awards for the year 2003. The awards were given away by President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam at a function in the Capital recently. The awards are recognized as the highest national honour conferred on practising artistes, gurus and scholars. Past recipients include eminent personalities such as Alauddin Khan, Hafiz Ali Khan, Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, Omkar Nath Thakur, T Balasaraswati, Rukmini Devi Arundale, Kelucharan Mohapatra, Sachin Deb Burman, Satyajit Ray, Sombhu Mitra, PL Deshpande, CC Mehta, Mohan Rakesh, B V Karanth. The award carries a purse money of Rs 50,000 in cash, a tamrapatra and a shawl.
The Sangeet Natak Akademi was established by the Government on May 31,1952 as the National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama. It was created as the apex body in the country for promoting performing arts. The awardees were: Music:- Ghulam Mustafa Waris Khan - Hindustani Music - Vocal; Yeshwant Balkrishna Joshi -Hindustani Music - Vocal; Arvind Natverlal Parikh - Hindustani Music - Instrumental (Sitar); Bhawani Shankar Kathak - Hindustani Music - Instrumental (Pakhawaj); Trichur Vaidyanatha Ramachandran - Carnatic Music - Vocal; Mandayam Annadorai Narasimhachar - Carnatic Music - Vocal; Avasarala Kanyakumari - Carnatic Music - Instrumental (Violin); Kadri Gopalnath Carnatic Music - Instrumental (Saxophone) Dance:- Cherutara K Balagopalan - Bharatanatyam; Sunayana Hazarilal Agarwal - Kathak; Urmila Nagar - Kathak; Sadanam PV Balakrishnan - Kathakali; Thiyam Suryamukhi Devi - Manipuri; Kalavati Devi - Manipuri; K Uma Rama Rao - Kuchipudi; Hare Krishna Behera - Odissi Theatre:- Arun Sarma - Playwriting - Assamese; Ratnakar Ramkrishna Matkari - Playwriting - Marathi; Devendra Raj Ankur - Direction; Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry - Direction; Saoli Mitra - Acting - Bengali; CR Simha - Acting - Kannada; Sreenivas G Kappanna - Allied Theatre Arts - Lighting & Stage Design; Anant Gopal Shinde - Allied Theatre Arts - Make-up Traditional/Folk/Tribal Dance, Music, Theatre & Puppetry:- Laisram Birendrakumar Singh - Folk & Tribal Music - Manipur; Prabhat Sarma - Traditional & Folk Music - Assam; Leela Omchery - Traditional & Folk Music - Kerala; Chukka Satthiah - Oggu Katha - Andhra Pradesh; Bhalchandra Vyankatesh Pendharkar - Natya Sangeet - Maharashtra; Banamali Maharana - Odissi Music - Orissa; Puran Bhaat Puppetry - Rajasthan; Kosha Kanta Deva Goswami - Mask Making (Bhaona) - Assam; Scholarship/Overall Contribution in Performing Arts:- PV Subramaniam 'Subbudu' Scholarship/Overall
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