New Delhi: The unsung hero who dedicated his life to promote and protect the dying Indians languagesdialects and art forms; medical professionals who left his throne in the US to provide affordable rural healthcare in states like Gujarat; IIT Professor who helped develop the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM); And a yoga guru, who at the age of ‘125’ shows how pranayama and meditation can prolong one’s life span, whose pride is he? Padma List of awards this year.
To save indigenous languages and dialects from slipping into oblivion, the government, while finalizing the Padma Shri 2022 list, included Karbi writer and poet Dhaneshwar Angati, who wrote 19 books and 100 books in Karbi to keep the dying dialect alive. Wrote songs Pahari litterateur and folk culture artist Vidyanand Sarek who was writing and translating in Simouri, a language on the verge of extinction; Balti poet and writer Akhon Asghar Ali Basharat who wrote a collection of praises and organized mushairas to popularize the Balti language; Author T Senka who is preserving the endangered ‘Ao’ language of Nagaland and has authored 8 books; and Koshali author Narasimha Orsad Guru who has developed a dictionary of Koshali, an Odia dialect; and Santhali writer from Jhargram Kali Pada Saren.
Similarly, there is a demand to promote dying art forms through Padma awards.
Supporters of these rare art forms recognized this year include Kalimpong’s mardal maestro Kazi Singh, who has worked tirelessly to promote and preserve Gorkha folk music; Baiga tribal dancer Arjun Singh Dhumre who has been performing the dying Baiga tribal dance for over 4 decades and has also taken it to a global audience; Rai folk artist Ram Sahai Pandey who popularized the Rai dance of the extinct Besia tribe by mixing it with the beats of the mridangam; Gamaka singer of Shivamogga HR Keshavamurthy, who has dedicated 6 decades of his life to preserve and promote Kavya Vachan, a rare Kannada form of storytelling; 1971 war veteran Sheesh Ram who has taken up the brush to paint tales of valor; the last exponent of the kinnera, an ancient musical instrument, Darshanam Mogilaiah; Koya storyteller Ramachandraiah, one of the last artists to preserve the ancient Koya practice of recounting oral history; R Muthukannamal, the last surviving ‘devadasi’ of his companions and 7th generation sadir dancer; Tangkha painter Khandu Wangchuk Bhutia from Sikkim; and Tsering Namgyal, the Ladakhi woodcarver who has carved monasteries over 4 decades.
The Padma Shri list also includes a Gujarat ghazal player who could not attend school after class 4 due to financial constraints, but vowed to sponsor the education of underprivileged children.
Among the medical professionals to be honored this year, General Physician Himmatrao Bavaskar is treating the poor in rural areas for scorpion stings and snake bites despite meager resources. He discovered the use of prazosin which reduced the mortality rate from such bites from 40% to less than 1%.
A 75-year-old pediatrician, Latha Desai, who quit her job in the US to provide affordable healthcare in Gujarat, and Orthopedic surgeon Sunkara Venkata Adinarayana Rao, who performed 1 lakh polio surgeries and over 20 lakh polio and cerebral palsy Patients were treated free or modestly. Fee was also nominated for the Padma Shri.
Padma Shri awardee ‘Yoga Sevak’ Sivananda is the living embodiment of Kashi’s ‘125-year-old’ yoga, meditation and service. He has practiced and taught yoga at the Ghats of Kashi for more than three decades.
Another interesting entry in the Padma Shri list is Dilip Shahani, Professor Emeritus of IIT Delhi who contributed to the design and development of India’s EVM and VVPAT technology platforms.
To save indigenous languages and dialects from slipping into oblivion, the government, while finalizing the Padma Shri 2022 list, included Karbi writer and poet Dhaneshwar Angati, who wrote 19 books and 100 books in Karbi to keep the dying dialect alive. Wrote songs Pahari litterateur and folk culture artist Vidyanand Sarek who was writing and translating in Simouri, a language on the verge of extinction; Balti poet and writer Akhon Asghar Ali Basharat who wrote a collection of praises and organized mushairas to popularize the Balti language; Author T Senka who is preserving the endangered ‘Ao’ language of Nagaland and has authored 8 books; and Koshali author Narasimha Orsad Guru who has developed a dictionary of Koshali, an Odia dialect; and Santhali writer from Jhargram Kali Pada Saren.
Similarly, there is a demand to promote dying art forms through Padma awards.
Supporters of these rare art forms recognized this year include Kalimpong’s mardal maestro Kazi Singh, who has worked tirelessly to promote and preserve Gorkha folk music; Baiga tribal dancer Arjun Singh Dhumre who has been performing the dying Baiga tribal dance for over 4 decades and has also taken it to a global audience; Rai folk artist Ram Sahai Pandey who popularized the Rai dance of the extinct Besia tribe by mixing it with the beats of the mridangam; Gamaka singer of Shivamogga HR Keshavamurthy, who has dedicated 6 decades of his life to preserve and promote Kavya Vachan, a rare Kannada form of storytelling; 1971 war veteran Sheesh Ram who has taken up the brush to paint tales of valor; the last exponent of the kinnera, an ancient musical instrument, Darshanam Mogilaiah; Koya storyteller Ramachandraiah, one of the last artists to preserve the ancient Koya practice of recounting oral history; R Muthukannamal, the last surviving ‘devadasi’ of his companions and 7th generation sadir dancer; Tangkha painter Khandu Wangchuk Bhutia from Sikkim; and Tsering Namgyal, the Ladakhi woodcarver who has carved monasteries over 4 decades.
The Padma Shri list also includes a Gujarat ghazal player who could not attend school after class 4 due to financial constraints, but vowed to sponsor the education of underprivileged children.
Among the medical professionals to be honored this year, General Physician Himmatrao Bavaskar is treating the poor in rural areas for scorpion stings and snake bites despite meager resources. He discovered the use of prazosin which reduced the mortality rate from such bites from 40% to less than 1%.
A 75-year-old pediatrician, Latha Desai, who quit her job in the US to provide affordable healthcare in Gujarat, and Orthopedic surgeon Sunkara Venkata Adinarayana Rao, who performed 1 lakh polio surgeries and over 20 lakh polio and cerebral palsy Patients were treated free or modestly. Fee was also nominated for the Padma Shri.
Padma Shri awardee ‘Yoga Sevak’ Sivananda is the living embodiment of Kashi’s ‘125-year-old’ yoga, meditation and service. He has practiced and taught yoga at the Ghats of Kashi for more than three decades.
Another interesting entry in the Padma Shri list is Dilip Shahani, Professor Emeritus of IIT Delhi who contributed to the design and development of India’s EVM and VVPAT technology platforms.
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