Sangeet Natak Academy Awards - 2008

knandago2001 · Post by **knandago2001** » 17 Jan 2009, 23:53

My pranams and heartiest congratulations to all the awardees of 2008 http://www.sangeetnatak.org/release.html

However, I felt a tad disappointed that the SNA site did not have photographs of the awardees for Carnatic music - anyway, these links have pictures http://www.mannargudiaeaswaran.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._Sasikumar

Born in August 1925, Sri Puranam Purushottam Sastry hails from a family of musicians. His father, Sangeeta Vidwan, Sri Kanakaiah Sastry, was the aasthana musician for Mysore, Gadwal and Wanaparthy Samsthanams. Following initial training from his father he came under the tutelage of Musiri Subrahmanya Iyer. Puranam Purushottam Sastry gaaru was a cultural scholar of the Government of India in vocal music and has been honoured with a monthly honorarium for lifetime by the Government of Andhra Pradesh. He has served as examiner for M.A. (music) of Telugu University. Other honors bestowed on him include the Hamsa award, and Samaikya Bharat Swarna Puraskar award. If anyone would kindly post a photograph of this vidwan that would be just wonderful! Many thanks.

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 18 Jan 2009, 02:10

Congratulations to all the recipients! Specially to Sri Easwaran! Wasn't the SNA award called the President's award earlier?

Nandagopal, when are the yuva puraskArs announced?

knandago2001 · Post by **knandago2001** » 18 Jan 2009, 09:40

Ravi: I suppose the yuva puraskars for 2008 will be announced sometime soon ..... http://news.webindia123.com/news/ar_sho ... e=20070222
was under the impression that the Presidential awards (Padma) were always announced in connection with the Republic Day celebrations on Jan 26th.

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 18 Jan 2009, 10:12

Nandagopal, I think the SNA awards were called something else in the earlier days - maybe not President's awards, but something else.

vainika · Post by **vainika** » 18 Jan 2009, 13:06

http://www.sangeetnatak.org/BISMILLAH%2 ... 202007.doc

Sikkil Gurucharan and Akkarai Subhalakshmi in the CM category.

Svaapana · Post by **Svaapana** » 18 Jan 2009, 13:51

[Wasn't the SNA award called the President's award earlier?]

Yes indeed, but long back. ARI (vocal) and KSI(Veena) were the first recipients. SSI (vocal), if my memory is right (ahead of his guru MVI), and Dwaram (Violin) were the next.

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 15 Jul 2009, 06:56

http://www.hindu.com/2009/07/15/stories ... 431100.htm

and for President's speech
http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=50301

VK RAMAN · Post by **VK RAMAN** » 15 Jul 2009, 07:56

Congratulations to SNA award recipients

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 15 Jul 2009, 08:49

There are 3 carnatic artists .Puranam Purushottama Sastry (Carnatic Vocal), B. Sasi Kumar (Carnatic Instrumental), Mannargudi A. Easwaran (Carnatic Instrumental). Sasikumar is a violin artist from kerela right. Puranam is a very senior vidwan from AP. A small writeup available in(any recordings of him)
http://www.hindu.com/fr/2009/01/23/stor ... 570300.htm

tkb · Post by **tkb** » 15 Jul 2009, 08:54

Congrats to the SNA recipients.

rajaglan · Post by **rajaglan** » 15 Jul 2009, 16:47

Congrats to all the receipients.
After seeing the list in todays morning paper, I was a bit disappointed.
Somehow the north (hindustani and etc) folks, without much mass support (compared to CM) , get to garner lots of awards. Am I correct?

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 15 Jul 2009, 18:16

rajaglan wrote: Somehow the north (hindustani and etc) folks, without much mass support (compared to CM) , get to garner lots of awards. Am I correct?

The Academy is a Indian Govt initiative. The various committees have representatives from all over. See http://www.sangeetnatak.org/sna/comittees.htm