Sangeet Natak, Lalit Kala Akademi Awards

April 12, 2022

The Vice President of India, M. Venkaiah Naidu, has bestowed the Sangeet Natak Awards and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship for the year 2018 to 43 eminent artists (4 Fellows and 40 awardees). The Fellowships and National Awards of the Lalit Kala Akademi for the year 2021 were also presented by him to 23 people (3 Fellows and 20 National Awards).

About Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship

The highest honour that is bestowed by the Sangeet Natak Akademi is the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship.
The Akademi Fellowship is restricted to 40 awardees at any given time.
The awardees receive Rs.3,00,000 along with an Angavastram and a Tamrapatra.

Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship

Sonal Mansingh
Jatin Goswami
Zakir Hussain
Thiruvidaimarudur Kuppiah Kalyanasundaram

About Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards

This award is conferred to the artists from the field of Dance, Music, Traditional/Folk/Tribal Music/Dance/Theatre, Theatre, Overall contribution/scholarship in the Performing Arts, Puppetry etc.
The recipients receive Rs 1,00,000 along with an Angavastram and a Tamrapatra.

Recipients in Music

Carnatic Instrumental – Kumaresh Rajagopalan and Ganesh Rajagopalan (Violin (Joint Award))
Carnatic Vocal – Alamelu Mani
Hindustani Vocal – Madhup Mudgal
Other major traditions of Music – Heisnam Ashangbi Devi (Nata Sankirtana, Manipur)
Hindustani Vocal – Mani Prasad
Carnatic Instrumental – S. Babu and S. Karim (Nagaswaram (Joint Award))
Carnatic Vocal – Malladi Suribabu
Hindustani Instrumental – Tejendra Narayan Majumdar (Santoor)
Hindustani Instrumental – Tarun Bhattacharya (Sarod)
Other Major Traditions of Music – Suresh E. Wadkar (Sugam Sangeet)
Other Major Traditions of Music – Shanti Hiranand (Sugam Sangeet)

Recipients in Dance

Manipuri- Akham Lakshmi Devi
Mohiniattam – Gopika Varma
Contemporary dance – Deepak Mazumdar
Kuchipudi – Pasumarthy Ramalinga Sastry
Kathak (Joint award) – Maulik Shah and Ishira Parikh
Odissi – Surupa Sen
Bharatanatyam – Radha Sridhar
Chhau – Tapan Kumar Pattanayak
Sattriya – Tankeshwar Hazarika Borbayan

Recipients in Theatre

Other Major Traditions of Theatre – Bhagawat A.S. Nanjappa (Yakshagana)
Other Major Traditions of Theatre – A.M. Parameswaran Chakyar (Kutiyattam)
Playwriting – Rajeev Naik
Playwriting – Laltluangliana Khiangte
Acting – Suhas Joshi
Direction – Sanjay Upadhyay
Acting – Teekam Joshi
Mime – Swapan Nandy

Recipients in Traditional/ Tribal Dance/ Music/ Folk/ Puppetry and Theatre

Folk Dance – Arjun Singh Dhurwey (Madhya Pradesh)
Puppetry – Anupama Hoskere
Mask Making – Hem Chandra Goswami (Assam)
Folk Music – Gazi Khan Barna (Khartal, Rajasthan)
Folk Music – Malini Awasthi (Uttar Pradesh)
Harikatha – Kota Satchidananda Sastry (Andhra Pradesh)
Folk Music – Narendra Singh Negi (Uttarakhand)
Folk Theatre – Mohd. Sidiq Bhagat (Bhand Pather, J&K)
Folk Music – Som Dutt Battu (Himachal Pradesh)
Folk Music – Niranjan Rajyaguru (Gujarat)

Recipients in Scholarship in Performing Arts/ Overall Contribution

Overall Contribution – Puru Dadheech
Scholarship – Diwan Singh Bajeli

About Lalit Kala Akademi Awards

These awards are bestowed upon individuals with the aim of recognizing their outstanding work in the field of art. The Akademi nominates a panel that selects the recipients of this award.