Sangeet Natak Akademi to felicitate 86 artistes
The Hindu
The special awards, with a purse of ₹1 lakh each, have been bestowed on 86 artistes, including those above 75 years who have not yet got any national honour in the field of performing arts
The Sangeet Natak Akademi has bestowed special one-time awards commemorating 75 years of India’s independence on 86 artistes, apart from selecting 128 performing artistes from various fields for its regular annual awards for the years 2019-21.
The 86 awardees for the one-time prizes, named Sangeet Natak Akademi Amrit Awards, including artistes who are above the age of 75 years and haven’t been accorded any national honour in their career so far in the field of the performing arts. The award carries a purse of ₹1,00,000.
The Amrit awardees are from across the country, including five from Tamil Nadu — R. Ramani for Carnatic veena, V.A.K. Rangarao for dance music, Sundaresan Ramamurthy for theatre, Purusai Subramanuim for Terukoothu and Achalapuram Chinnatambi for nagaswaram. The awardees also include five artistes each from Karnataka and Kerala and four from Telangana.
The general council of the Akademi at a meeting on November 6-8 also selected ten eminent personalities as fellows. The prestigious fellowship is restricted to 40 at any given time. At present the number stands at 39, including those who have been selected this year.
Saroja Vaidyanathan, Sadanam Krishnam Kutty, Darshana Jhaveri, Channulal Mishra, A.K.C. Natarajan, Swapan Chaudhuri, Malini Rajurkar, T.V. Gopalakrishnan, Teejan Bai and Bharat Gupt are those selected as fellows.
The General Council of the Akademi also selected 128 artistes from the fields of music, dance, theatre, folk, tribal and puppetry for the Sangeet Natak Akademi awards, better known as the Akademi Puraskars, for the years 2019, 2020 and 2021. These include three joint awards.
While the Akademi fellowship carries a purse of ₹3,00,000, for the Akademi Puraskar it is ₹1,00,000.
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