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| Receiving the Sangeet Natak Academi Puraskar - 2008 from Hon' President of India, Smt. Pratibha Patil |
Vid Mannargudi Easwaran was honoured with the "Sangeet Natak Academi Puraskar" by National Academy of Music Dance & Drama, New Delhi on 14th July 2009 for his contribution in the field of music. The General Council of Sangeet Natak Akademi, the National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama at its meeting held on 10 January 2009 in New Delhi elected four (4) eminent personalities in the field of performing arts namely Smt Sitara Devi, Shri Khaled Choudhury, Shri R.C. Mehta and Shri Bhupen Hazarika as Sangeet Natak Akademi Ratna (Akademi Fellows). The honour of Akademi Ratna (Akademi Fellow) is restricted to 30 living personalities at any given point of time. |
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| The General Council of the Akademi also selected 34 practitioners of Music, Dance, and Theatre for the Akademi Puraskar (Akademi Awards) for the year 2008. |
| In the field of Music, eight eminent artists namely Ulhas Kashalkar and M.R. Gautam for Hindustani Vocal Music; Ramesh Mishra (Sarangi) and Krishna Ram Chaudhary (Shehnai) for Hindustani Instrumental Music; Puranam Purushottama Sastri for Carnatic Vocal; B. Sasi Kumar (Violin) and Mannargudi A. Easwaran (Mridangam) for Carnatic Instrumental Music and Ningombam Ibobi Singh (Nata Sankirtana, Manipur) for Other Major Traditions of Music have been selected. |
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