{"id":3815,"date":"2019-07-17T10:33:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T10:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=3815"},"modified":"2019-07-17T10:52:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T10:52:15","slug":"zakir-hussain-sonal-mansingh-among-4-selected-for-sangeet-natak-akademi-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/zakir-hussain-sonal-mansingh-among-4-selected-for-sangeet-natak-akademi-fellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Zakir Hussain, Sonal Mansingh and 2 others selected for Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, dancer Sonal Mansingh, dancer and choreographer Jatin Goswami and Bharatnatyam exponent K. Kalyanasundaram Pillai are selected for the prestigious <strong>Akademi Ratna awards<\/strong> or <strong>Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sangeet Natak Akademi has named four eminent personalities in the field of performing arts &#8211; tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, dancer Sonal Mansingh, dancer and choreographer Jatin Goswami and Bharatnatyam exponent K. Kalyanasundaram Pillai &#8211; for the prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellow or Akademi Ratna awards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The General Council also selected 44 artistes from the field\nof music, dance, theatre, traditional\/folk\/tribal music\/dance\/theatre, puppetry\nand overall contribution\/scholarship in the performing arts for the Sangeet\nNatak Akademi Awards (Akademi Puraskar) for the year 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 44 artistes include three joint awards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the field of music, 11 eminent artistes were selected:\nMani Prasad &#8211; Hindustani Vocal; Madhup Mudgal &#8211; Hindustani Vocal; Tarun\nBhattacharya &#8211; Hindustani Instrumental &#8211; Santoor; Tejendra Narayan Majumdar &#8211;\nHindustani Instrumental &#8211; Sarod; Alamelu Mani -ACarnatic Vocal; Malladi\nSuribabu &#8211; Carnatic Vocal; S. Kasim and S. Babu (Joint Award) &#8211; Carnatic\nInstrumental &#8211; Nagaswaram; Ganesh and Kumaresh (Joint Award) &#8211; Carnatic\nInstrumental &#8211; Violin; Suresh Wadkar &#8211; Other Major Traditions of Music &#8211; Sugam\nSangeet; Shanti Hiranand &#8211; other major traditions of music &#8211; Sugam Sangeet; H.\nAshangbi Devi &#8211; other major traditions of music &#8211; Nata Sankirtana, Manipur. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the field of dance, nine eminent artistes have been\nselected: Radha Sridhar for Bharatanatyam; Ishira and Maulik Shah (Joint Award)\nfor Kathak; Akham Lakshmi Devi for Manipuri; Pasumurthy Ramalinga Sastry for\nKuchipudi; Surupa Sen for Odissi; Tankeswar Hazarika Borbayan for Sattriya;\nGopika Varma for Mohiniattam; Tapan Kumar Pattanayak for Chhau; Deepak Mazumdar\nfor Contemporary Dance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the field of theatre, nine eminent artists have been\nselected: Rajiv Naik for Playwriting; Laltluangliana Khiangte for Playwriting;\nSanjayAUpadhyay for Direction; S. Raghunandana for Direction; Suhas Joshi for\nActing; Teekam Joshi for Acting; Swapan Nandy for Mime; Bhagawat A.S. Nanjappa\n&#8211; other major traditions of theatre &#8211; Yakshagana; A.M. Parameswaran Kuttan\nChakkiyar &#8211; other major traditions of theatre &#8211; Kutiyattam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the field of traditional\/folk\/tribal music\/dance\/theatre\nand puppetry, 10 artistes have been selected: Malini Awasthi, Folk Music, Uttar\nPradesh; Gazi Khan Barna, Folk Music &#8211; Khartal, Rajasthan; Narendar Singh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Negi, Folk Song, Uttarakhand; Mohd. Sadiq Bhagat, Folk\nTheatre (Bhand Pather), J&amp;K; Kota Sachidanand Shastry, Harikatha, Andhra\nPradesh; Arjun Singh Dhruve, Folk Dance, Madhya Pradesh; Somnath Battu, Folk\nMusic, Himachal Pradesh; Anupama Hoskere, Puppetry (String), Karnataka; Hem\nChandra Goswami, Mask Making, Assam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diwan Singh Bajeli and Puru Dadhich have been selected in\nthe field of Overall Contribution\/Scholarship in the Performing Arts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Akademi Awards, conferred since 1952, not only symbolize\nthe highest standard of excellence and achievements, but also recognize\nsustained individual work and contribution, it said. \n\nThe honour of Akademi Fellow carries a purse\nmoney of Rs 3 lakh while the Akademi Award carries Rs 1 lakh, besides a\nTamrapatra and Angavastram.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, dancer Sonal Mansingh, dancer and choreographer Jatin Goswami and Bharatnatyam exponent K. 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