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New Delhi: The unsung hero who dedicated his life to promoting and protecting the dying Indians languagesdialects and art forms; medical professionals who gave up his throne in America to provide affordable rural healthcare in states like Gujarat; IIT Professor who helped develop the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM); And whose pride is the yoga guru, who at the age of ‘125’ shows how pranayama and meditation can prolong one’s life span? Padma List of awards for this year.
To save indigenous languages ​​and dialects from going into oblivion, government finalizes Padma Shri 2022 list inducts Karbi writer and poet Dhaneshwar Angati, who wrote 19 books and 100 books in Karbi to keep Marti dialect alive . Wrote Books Pahari litterateur and folk culture artist Vidyanand Sarek, who wrote and translated the songs, was writing and translating in Simouri, a language that is 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 Oriya dialect; and Santhali writer Kali Pada from Jhargram.
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 masculine Ustad 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 more than 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 beat 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 Kinnar, 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 peers and a 7th generation sadir dancer; Tangkha painter Khandu Wangchuk Bhutia from Sikkim; and Ladakhi woodcutter Tsering Namgyal, who has carved monasteries over four 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 scorpion stings and snake bites for the poor in rural areas despite scarce 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. performed. Taken treatment. free or modest. 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.