Conferment of Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (Akademi Ratna) & Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards (Akademi Puraskar) for the years 2024 and 2025

Ministry of Culture Conferment of Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (Akademi Ratna) & Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards (Akademi Puraskar) for the years 2024 and 2025 प्रव तथ: 11 AUG 2026 4:15PM by PIB Delhi The Hon’ble President of India will confer the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships and Awards for the years 2024 and 2025 to 115 artists in a special investiture ceremony scheduled for Thursday, 13 August 2026 at 11:30 a.m. at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.

Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Hon’ble Minister for Culture and Tourism, Govt. of India, Shri Rao Inderjit Singh, Hon’ble Minister of State for Planning, Statistics, and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge) and Hon’ble Minister of State for Culture, Govt. of India, Shri Vivek Aggarwal, Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India and Dr Sandhya Purecha, Chairman, Sangeet Natak Akademi will grace the award ceremony.

The Fellows and Awardees so selected represent the nation as a whole, and belong to different States and Union Territories of India. Besides, these eminent artists cover the entire gamut of the performing art forms expressed in the form of music, dance, drama, folk & tribal art, puppetry and allied theatre art forms, etc.

The Akademi Awards have been conferred since 1952. These honours not only symbolize the highest standard of excellence and achievement, but also recognize sustained individual work and contribution.

The honour of Akademi Fellow carries a purse money of Rs. 3,00,000/- (Rupees three lakh only) while the Akademi Award carries a purse money of Rs. 1,00,000/- (Rupees one lakh only), besides a Tamrapatra and Angavastram.

The list of 115 artists selected for the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards is attached in Annexure-1.

ANNEXURE-1 List of Fellows Ramlal Bareth A V Anand Rita Ganguly Puru Dadheech Chittaranjan Jyotishi Pasumarthi Rattaiah Sarma Sudharani Raghupathy Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards (Akademi Puraskar) for the year 2024Field of Activity: Music (12) Arun Nagesh Kashalkar Hindustani Vocal Nirmalya Dey Hindustani Vocal – Dhrupad Bharat Bhushan Goswami Hindustani Instrumental – Sarangi Sanjay Mukherjee Hindustani Instrumental – Tabla Krishna Vageesh Carnatic Vocal N. Vijay Siva Carnatic Vocal A S Krishnan Carnatic Instrumental – Morching Komanduri Seshadri Carnatic Instrumental – Violin Rakesh Chaurasia Creative and Experimental – Flute Prabhati Mukherjee Other Major traditions of Music – Sugam Sangeet Anand Bhate Other Major traditions of Music – Abhang Samandar Khan Manganiar Other Major traditions of Music – Mand

Field of Activity: Dance (12) Rajeswari Sainath Bharatanatyam Bipul Chandra Das Kathak Rajkumari Thambalsana Devi Manipuri Veena Murthy Vijay Kuchipudi Bichitrananda Swain Odissi Prema Ozah Borbayan Sattriya Sreedevi Rajan MohiniattamNripen Sahis Chhau Shashidharan Nair Creative and Experimental Kalamandalam Unnikrishnan Music for Dance – Kathakali Kumara Surya Narayana Music for Dance

Field of Activity: Theatre (10) Satish Dave Direction T S Nagabharana Direction Ravi Chaturvedi Direction Om Katare Direction Gummadi Gopala Krishna Rao Acting Vagai Chanderasekar Acting Arun Nalavde Acting Dhiren D Merchant Allied Theatre Arts – Lighting Dinesh Kumar Poddar Allied Theatre Arts – Lighting Mukund Ram Marathe Traditional Theatre – Sangeet Natak

Field of Activity: Folk and Tribal/Puppet/Mask Making/Instruments Making (13) Dursheti Ramaiah Folk Music, Telangana K Murugan Folk Dance, Puducherry S C Sharma Folk & Tribal Music, Karnataka Atamjeet Singh Nautanki, Uttar Pradesh Mahendra Ram Folk Music, BiharButan Devi and Somari Devi (Joint) Folk Dance, Jharkhand Ranajit Kumar Nag Folk Dance – Sambalpuri, Odisha Hawa Singh Folk Music, Haryana Veswuzo Phesao Folk Music & Dance, Nagaland Gulabi Sapera Folk Dance, Rajasthan - Kalbeliya Lourembam Bedabati Folk Music, Manipur Subhash Narayan Nakashe Folk Dance, Maharashtra Kishorbhai Somabhai Mistry Instrument making – Rudra Veena

Field of Activity: Overall and others (5) T S Sathyavathi Overall Contribution in Music Voleti Rangamani Overall Contribution in Dance Shubhada Manohar Varadkar Scholarship in Performing Arts – Dance Tapati Chowdhurie Art Critique – Performing Arts Sunanda Nair Overseas – Dance (Mohiniattam) Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards (Akademi Puraskar) for the year 2025

Field of Activity: Music (12) Krishna Mohan Pathak Hindustani Vocal – Dhrupad Suresh Gandharv Hindustani Vocal Shailesh Bhagwat Hindustani Instrumental – Shehnai Jyoti Ganpati Hegde Hindustani Instrumental – Rudra Veena Pantula Rama Carnatic VocalPapanasam Ashok Ramani Carnatic Vocal Tripoonithura N Carnatic Instrumental – Ghatam Radhakrishnan Anoor R. Anantha Krishna Carnatic Instrumental – Mridangam Sharma D. Srinivas Carnatic Instrumental – Veena Yugantar Sindoor Other Major traditions of Music – Sugam Sangeet Satchidananda Das Other Major traditions of Music – Mardala Seema Anil Sehgal Other Major traditions of Music – Sugam Sangeet

Field of Activity: Dance (12) Roja Kannan Bharatanatyam Krishna Mohan Mishra Kathak Maharaj, Vaswati Misra and Ram Mohan Maharaj (Trio) Kalamandalam Krishnakumar Kathakali Irengbam Nalini Devi Manipuri Seetha Nagajothy and P. Nagajothy (Joint) Mallika Kandali Sattriya Girija Chandran Mohiniattam Pagulu Jena Chhau – Mayurbhanj Kaniyal Hariprasad Music for Dance – Bharatanatyam Bhaskar Jyoti Ojah Music for Dance – Sattriya S. Kumar Other Major Traditions of Dance & Dance Theatre – Bhagavatamela

Field of Activity: Theatre (10)Kapildev Chandrakant Shukla Direction Kallol Bhattacharyya Direction Navdeep Kaur Direction Pramod Dnyandeo Pawar Direction Subodh Patnaik Direction Chetana Das Acting Suresh Kumar Hazzu Acting Makhan Lal Saraf Acting Ashok Patki Allied Theatre Arts – Music for Theatre Usha Nangiar Other Major Traditions of Theatre – Nangiarkooth

Field of Activity: Folk and Tribal/Puppet/Mask Making/Instruments Making (13) Anup Ranjan Pandey Folk Music, Chhattisgarh Bheru Singh Chouhan Folk Music, Madhya Pradesh – Nirguni Surjya Kumar Debbarma Folk Dance, Tripura Joginder Singh Habbi Folk Dance, Himachal Pradesh Romalo Ram Folk Music & Dance, Jammu and Kashmir Harmanpreet Singh Folk Dance, Punjab Ali Mohammad Folk Music, Ladakh Domin Karbak Folk Dance, Arunachal Pradesh K. Rosiama Folk Dance, Mizoram Rani Maring Instrument MakingSushanta Kumar Mask Making - Chhau Mangla Prasad Sharma Instrument Making

Field of Activity: Overall and Others (5) Kunal Overall Contribution in Theatre Maneesha Sathe Overall Contribution in Dance – Kathak Rakesh Sinha Overall Contribution – Art Photography Manjari Sinha Art Critique – Performing Arts T S Nandakumar Overseas – Music (Mridangam) ***** M. Annadurai (रलीज़ आईडी: 2297632) आगंतुक पटल : 2099 इस वज्ञ को इन भाषाओ ंम पढ़: Telugu , Malayalam , Urdu , Marathi , ही , Manipuri , Gujarati