Two Manipur Artistes Chosen for Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards

New Delhi, Jan 15 : Ningombam Ibobi Singh in the field of Nata Sankirtana and Leitanthem Heramot Meitei in Thang-ta from Manipur were among 34 eminent personalities of music, dance and theatre chosen for the Sangeet Natak Akademi Puraskar (Awards) for the year 2008. 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 selected four 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) while 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 Manrgudi A. Easwaran (Mridangam) for Carnatic Instrumental Music and Ningombam Ibobi Singh (Nata Sankirtana, Manipur) for Other Major Traditions of Music have been selected. In the field of Dance, nine eminent practitioners namely Saroja Vaidyanathan, Bharatanatyam; Shashi Shankhla, Kathak; Kalamandalam Kuttan, Kathakali; Ramani Ranjan Jena, Odissi; Vasanta Lakshmi & Narasimhachari (Joint Award), Kuchipudi; Kalamandalam Leelamma, Mohiniattam; Yog Sunder Desai, Creative & Experimental Dance and Ramhari Das, Music for Dance (Odissi) have been selected. In the field of Theatre also eight eminent persons namely Markand Bhatt and Arundhati Nag for Acting, S. Ramanujam and Probir Guha for Direction, Mudra Rakshas (Hindi) and Narsingh Dev Jamwal (Dogri) for Playwriting, Amba Sanyal for Allied Theatre Arts (Costume Designing) and Bansi Lal Khiladi (Khayal, Rajasthan) for Major Traditions of Theatre have been selected. For their contribution to Other Traditional/Folk/ Tribal Music/ Dance/ Theatre, Shakuntala Nagarkar, Lavani (Maharastra); Birbar Sahoo, Gotipua (Orissa); Mangi Bai Arya, Mand (Rajasthan); L. Heramot Meitei, Thang-Ta (Martial Art, Manipur); Lakha Khan Manganiyar, Folk Music (Rajasthan); Hildamit Lepcha, Lepcha Music (Sikkim); Kartar Singh, Gurbani (Punjab) and Lakshman Das, Hari Katha (Karnataka) have been selected. R. Satyanarayana of Kartanaka has been selected for his contribution to Scholarship in Performing Arts. There is no any personality selected in the field of Manipuri dance this year. Ningombam Ibobi Singh of Khongman was a Pung Guru of erstwhile Shri Shri Govindajee Nartalaya and retired as lecturer of the Government Dance College . Leithanthem Heramot Meetei of Kongpal is a renowned Manipuri martial artist. The Akademi Ratna (Akademi Fellow) and Akademi Puraskar (Akademi Award) have been conferred since 1952, which not only symbolize the highest standard of excellence and achievements on a national basis, but also recognize sustained individual work and contribution to the practice and appreciation of the arts through performance, teaching and scholarship. The Akademi Ratna carries purse money of Rs.1,00,000/- (Rupees One lakh) and Akademi Puraskar Rs.50,000/- (Rupees fifty thousand) besides Tamrapatra and Angavastram.

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