President Mukherjee presents Akademi Awards

President Pranab Mukherjee presented Sangeet Natak Akademi's Fellowships (Akademi Ratna) and Akademi Awards - 2012 at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here today.

The awards were : AKADEMI AWARDS 2012 MUSIC RAJSHEKHAR MANSUR: Hindustani Vocal, AJAY POHANKAR: Hindustani Vocal SABIR KHAN: Hindustani Instrumental-Tabla BAHA'UD-DIN DAGAR: Hindustani Instrumental- Rudra Veena

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S. THIAGARAIAN: Carnatic Vocal MYSORE M. NAGARAJ: Carnatic Instrumental - Violin K. V PRASAD: Carnatic Instrumental Mridangam

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THEATRE ARIUN DEO CHARAN: Playwriting - Rajasthani TRIPURARI SHARMA: Direction WAMAN KENDRE: Direction PARVESH KUMAR SETHI: Acting NIRMAl RISHI: Acting PURISAI KANNAPPA SAMBANDAN: Acting

MURARI RAY CHOUDHURY: Music for TheatreGHUlAM RASOOL BHAGAT: Major Traditions of Theatre - Bhand Pather

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TRADITIONAL I FOLK / TRIBAL DANCE / MUSIC I THEATRE AND PUPPETRY

GO. RU. CHANNABASAPPA: Folk Music (Karnataka)KINA RAM NATH OIA: Suknani Ojapali (Assam) PREM SINGH DEHATI: Folk Theatre (Haryana) SUlOCHANA CHAVAN: lavani (Maharashtra) MATTANUR SANKARANKUTTY MARAK

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Thayambaka (Kerala) GOBIND RAM NIRMALKAR: Nacha (Chhattisgarh)

HIRA DASS KAlAKAR:Mask Making (Himachal Pradesh) PRAFUlLA KARMAKAR: Traditional Puppetry, West Bengal smf BHAI BAlBIR SINGH RAGl: Other Major Traditions of Music - Gurbani

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DANCE::PRIYADARSINI GOVIND: BharatanatyamVIJAI SHANKAR: Kathak

P. V VIJAYA KUMAR: Kathakali VEDANTAM RAMALINGA SASTRY: Kuchipudi

SHARMIlA BlSWAS: OdissiJAl NARAYAN SAMAL Chbau

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PAINKULAM DAMODARA CHAKYAR: Kutiyattam

IWAlA PRASAD: Music for Dance

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OVERALL CONTRIBUTION / SCHOLARSHIP IN PERFORMING ARTS

NANDINI RAMANI

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