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Sangeet Akademi Awards presentation today

July 14, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, July 14 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil will confer the prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships and Akademi Awards for 2008 at a special ceremony at Vigyan Bhavan today.
The Akademi Fellowship (Akademi Ratna) and Akademi Awards (Akademi Puraskar) are recognized as the highest national honour conferred on practicing artists, gurus and scholars and have come to stay as the most coveted honour, which the artistes aspire to.

This year, the most coveted honour of Akademi Fellowship (Akademi Ratna) will be conferred on eminent personalities in the field of performing arts namely Sitara Devi, eminent Kathak exponent from Mumbai, Khaled Chowdhury, eminent stage designer from Kolkata, R.C. Mehta, eminent scholar of performing arts from Vadodara and Bhupen Hazarika, eminent personality in the field of performing arts and noted folk musician from Guwahati.

The Akademi Fellowship (Akademi Ratna Sadyasta) carries a purse of Rs 1, 00,000/-, besides a citation, an angavastram and a tamrapatra.

The Akademi Fellowship is restricted to 30 living persons at any given point of time.

The General Council of the Akademi also selected 34 practitioners of music, dance and theatre for 33 awards including one joint award for the Akademi Puraskar (Akademi Award) for the year 2008.

The Akademi Award carries a purse money of Rs 50,000/-, citation, angavastram and tamrpatra.

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 practioners namely Saroja Vaidyanathan, Bharatanatyam; Shashi Shankhla, Kathak; Kalamandalam Kuttan, Kathakali; Ramani Ranjan Jena, Odissi; M. Vasanthalakshmi and M.V. Narasimhachari (Joint Award), Kuchipudi; Kalamandalam Leelamma, Mohiniattam; Yogsunder Desai, Creative and Experimental Dance and Ramhari Das, Music for Dance (Odissi) have been selected.

In the field of theatre, eight eminent persons namely Markand Bhatt and Arundhati Nag for Acting, S. Ramanujam and Probir Guha for Direction, Mudra Rakshasa (Hindi) and Narsingh Dev.

Jamwal (Dogri) for Playwriting, Amba Sanyal for Allied Theatre Arts (Costume Designing) and Bansi Lal Khilari (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); Birabar Sahoo, Gotipua (Orissa); Mangi Bai Arya, Mand (Rajasthan); L. Heramot Meitei, Thang-Ta (Martial Art, Manipur); Lakha Khan Mangniyar, Folk Music (Rajasthan); Hilda Mit Lepcha, Lepcha Music (Sikkim); Kartar Singh, Gurbani (Punjab) and Lakshman Das, Hari Katha (Karnataka) have been selected.

R. Satyanarayana of Kartanaka has been selected his Scholarship in Performing Arts. (ANI)

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India a partner in Obama’s N-efforts?

April 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

IF US President Barack Obama is serious about reducing nuclear weapons, putting in place a global nuclear test ban and ending the production of fissile material to produce more nuclear weapons, then India will necessarily be in the frontline of such efforts. Speaking in Prague, Obama said, ” and #8230;I state clearly and with conviction America’s commitment to seek peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons and #8230;” “To put an end to Cold War thinking, we will reduce the role of nuclear weapons in our national security strategy and #8230; we will negotiate a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with the Russians this year.

” The US President also said his administration would “immediately and aggressively” pursue the ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), which was rejected by the US Senate in 1999. India, which has still to sign and ratify the CTBT, having acquired de facto nuclear weapon status in 1998, would have little choice but to sign the Treaty if the Senate ratifies it.

“I don’t see why today’s India should object to signing the Treaty if the US and China ratify it,” Arundhati Ghose, former Indian ambassador and arms control expert, told HT. Ghose, however, was skeptical about Obama’s efforts to reduce global nuclear weapons. “I think he’s forgotten that the (presidential) campaign is over.

He is President of the US, which is in dire straits,” she argued. Another key area of interest is a new treaty to end the production of fissile material.

“If we are serious about stopping the spread of these weapons, then we should put an end to the dedicated production of weapons-grade materials that create them,” Obama said. “The basic bargain is sound: Countries with nuclear weapons will move towards disarmament, countries without nuclear weapons will not acquire them, and all countries can access peaceful nuclear energy.

,” he underlined. Radha Kumar, trustee at the Delhi Policy Group, said the world would have to deal with the issue of unequal levels of fissile material in the possession of nuclear weapon states.

On CTBT, Kumar said: “The logic is there for India to sign CTBT. But it remains to be seen what government takes power in Delhi.”.

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President condoles passing away of veteran film director Tapan Sinha

January 15, 2009 By Rajesh Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Jan 15 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil has condoled the passing away of the famous veteran film director and recipient of the Dada Saheb Phalke Award, Tapan Sinha.

In her condolence message, the President has said, “An acclaimed film director Tapan Sinha shall always be remembered for his films such as ‘Kabuliwala’ and ‘Ek Doctor Ki Maut’, which touched on social issues of our times.”

In his passing away, the nation has lost a creative personality and a legendary filmmaker, the President added.

Tapan Sinha, 84, died this morning after prolonged illness in Kolkata. He passed away due to bronchopneumonia, which he had been suffering from for quite a while

Sinha married famous Bengali actress Arundhati Devi, who died in 1990. Their son is notable scientist professor, Anindya Sinha.

Although he was primarily based in the Bengali film industry, he also made films in different languages like Hindi and Oriya.

Sinha’s films have also won laurels in International Film Festivals of Berlin, Venice, London, Moscow, San Francisco, Locarno, Cork Festival in Ireland Kampuchea and Seoul.

He has also served as a member of the jury in film festivals at Tashkent and San Francisco among others.

His works have won 19 National Film Awards in various categories. (ANI)

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