President presents 2016 Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards

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         President Ram Nath Kovind presented Sangeet Natak Akademi’s Fellowships (Akademi Ratna) and Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards (Akademi Puraskar) for the year 2016 at function held at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi.

 Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards

         The Sangeet Natak Akademi’s Fellowships and Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards are recognised as among most coveted national coveted national honours bestowed on performing artists as well as teachers and scholars of performing arts in the country. They are given by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India’s National Academy of Music, Dance & Drama.
       Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards are given in categories of music, dance, theatre, other traditional arts and puppetry, and for contribution and scholarship in performing arts. The award since 2003 consists of Rs. 50,000, a citation, an angavastram (shawl), and tamrapatra (brass plaque).

 2016 list of winners 

 Akademi Fellows
Arvind Parikh
R Vedavalli Ram Gopal Bajaj 
Sunil Kothari

 Akademi Awards 2016

  Music
Hindustani Vocal Music: Padma Talwalkar
Hindustani Vocal Music: Prabhakar Karekar. 
Hindustani Instrumental Music- Tabla: Arvind Mulgaonkar 
Hindustani Instrumental Music- Violin: Kala Ramnath
Carnatic Vocal Music: Neela Ramgopal
Carnatic Vocal Music: K Omanakutty
Carnatic Instrumental Music – Mridangam: J Vaidhyanathan
Carnatic Instrumental Music – Violin: Mysore M Manjunath 
Other Major Traditions of Music- Sugam Sangeet: Ratnamala Prakash. 
Other Major Traditions of Music – Sugam Sangeet: Ahmed Hussain and Mohd Hussain
Other Major Traditions of Music – Nata Sankirtana, Manipur: Ningthoujam Shyamchand Singh 

 Classical Dance

Bharatanatyam: Geeta Chandran. 
Kathak Dance: Jitendra Maharaj
Kathakali: Kalamandalam Ramachandran Unnithan
Manipuri: Maisnam Kaminikumar Singh
Kuchipudi: A B Bala Kondala Rao 
Odissi: Ratikant Mohapatra
Sattriya: Haricharan Bhuyan Borbayan.
Chhau: Gopal Prasad Dubey
Contemporary: Anita R Ratnam.

 Theatre

 Playwriting: Kusum Kumar
Direction: Satyabrata Rout
Direction: Bipin Kumar 
Direction: Rajkamal Nayak
Acting: Gireesan V 
Acting: Oinam Biramangol Singh 
Acting: Mohan Joshi Theatre 
Arts – Music for Theatre: Anjana Puri
Other Major Traditions of Theatre- Yakshgana: K Govind Bhat.

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

 Traditional Theatre (Kalavantulu), Andhra Pradesh: Annabattula Lakshmi, Mangatayaru and Annabattula Leela Folk Music, Gujarat: Yogesh Gadhavi
Folk Music, Himachal Pradesh: Vidyanand Saraik
Traditional Music, Goa: Somnath D Chari
Pala, Odisha: Laxmidhar Rout 
Mand, Rajasthan: Chiranji Lal Tanwar
Folk Music (chakri), Jammu & Kashmir: Gulzar Ahmad Ganie 
Folk Music, Bihar: Braj Kishor Dubey
Puppetry: Prabhitangsu Das
Puppetry: Dattatreya Aralikatte

 Overall Contribution/ Scholarship in the Performing Arts 

 Avinash Pasricha
Pappu Venugopal Rao

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