The Vice President, M. Venkaiah Naidu has presented the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship and Sangeet Natak Awards for the year 2018 to 43 eminent artists (4 Fellows and 40 awardees). Naidu also presented Fellowships and National Awards of Lalit Kala Akademi for the year 2021 to 23 people (3 Fellows and 20 National Awards ).
The following are the artists selected for The Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship and Awards in the
year 2018
Fellows:
- Jatin Goswami
- Dr. Sonal Mansingh
- Thiruvidaimarudur Kuppiah Kalyanasundaram
- Zakir Hussain
Awardees:
MUSIC
- Alamelu Mani – Carnatic Vocal
- Ganesh Rajagopalan and Kumaresh Rajagopalan - Carnatic Instrumental – Violin (Joint Award)
- Heisnam Ashangbi Devi – Other major traditions of Music – Nata Sankirtana, Manipur
- Madhup Mudgal – Hindustani Vocal
- Malladi Suribabu – Carnatic Vocal
- Mani Prasad - Hindustani Vocal
- S. Karim and S. Babu – Carnatic Instrumental – Nagaswaram (Joint Award)
- Tarun Bhattacharya – Hindustani Instrumental – Sarod
- Tejendra Narayan Majumdar – Hindustani Instrumental - Santoor
- Shanti Hiranand – Other Major Traditions of Music – Sugam Sangeet
- Suresh E. Wadkar – Other Major Traditions of Music – Sugam Sangeet
DANCE
- Akham Lakshmi Devi – Manipuri
- Deepak Mazumdar – Contemporary dance
- Gopika Varma – Mohiniattam
- Ishira Parikh & Maulik Shah – Kathak (Joint award)
- Pasumarthy Ramalinga Sastry – Kuchipudi
- Radha Sridhar – Bharatanatyam
- Surupa Sen – Odissi
- Tankeshwar Hazarika Borbayan – Sattriya
- Tapan Kumar Pattanayak – Chhau
THEATRE
- A.M. Parameswaran Chakyar – other Major Traditions of Theatre – Kutiyattam
- Bhagawat A.S. Nanjappa – Other Major Traditions of Theatre – Yakshagana
- Laltluangliana Khiangte – Playwriting
- Rajeev Naik – Playwriting
- Sanjay Upadhyay – Direction
- Suhas Joshi – Acting
- Swapan Nandy – Mime
- Teekam Joshi – Acting
TRADITIONAL / FOLK/ TRIBAL DANCE/ MUSIC/ THEATRE And PUPPETRY
- Anupama Hoskere – puppetry
- Arjun Singh Dhurwey – Folk Dance, Madhya Pradesh
- Gazi Khan Barna – Folk Music – Khartal, Rajasthan
- Hem Chandra Goswami – Mask Making, Assam
- Kota Satchidananda Sastry - Harikatha, Andhra Pradesh
- Malini Awasthi – Folk Music, Uttar Pradesh
- Mohd. Sidiq Bhagat - Folk Theatre – Bhand Pather, J&K
- Narendra Singh Negi – Folk Music, Uttarakhand
- Niranjan Rajyaguru – Folk Music, Gujarat
- Som Dutt Battu – Folk Music, Himachal Pradesh
- Overall Contribution/ Scholarship in Performing Arts
- Diwan Singh Bajeli - Scholarship
- Puru Dadheech – Overall Contribution.
Following is the list of Fellows & Award winners of the Lalit Kala Akademi:
Fellows:
1. Himmat Shah
2. Jyoti Bhatt
3. Shyam Sharma
Awardees
1. Anand Narayan Dabli
2. Bhola Kumar
3. Devesh Upadhyay
4. Digbijayee Khatua
5. Ghanshyam Kahar
6. Jagan Mohan Penuganti
7. Jintu Mohan Kalita
8. Kusum Pandey
9. Laxmipriya Panigrahi
10. Manjunath Honapura
11. Mohan Bhoya
12. Nema Ram Jangid
13. Nisha Chaddha
14. Prabhu Harsoor
15. Prem Kumar Singh
16. Pritam Maity
17. Rishi Raj Tomar
18. S.A. Vimlanathan
19. Shivanand Shagoti
20. Suneel Kumar Kushwaha
