The Tamil Nadu Iyal Isai Nadaka Manram, on behalf of the State Government of Tamil Nadu has announced the 'Kalaimamani awards' for the years 2001, 2002 and 2003. The award function is to be held on November 14, 2003 in Madras.
Artistes from the south Indian classical music and dance field who receive the award are:
For 2001:
Vairamangalam Lakshmi Narayanan, Manakkal S. Rangarajan (Vocal), M.A. Sundareswaran (violin), Madurai T. Srinivasan (mridangam), T.M. Krishnamurthy (mridangam), R. Kalyanaraman (ghatam), Rajalakshmi Narayanan (veena), S. Sashank (flute), Seetha Duraiswamy (jalatarangam), Adyar S. Jayaraman (nadhaswaram), Thirunageswaram T.R. Govindarajan, Valayapatti S. Malarvannan (thavil), P.V.N. Nadhamani (clarinet), Udupi Lakshminarayanan, M.V. Narasimhachari and Vasanthalakshmi Narasimhachari (Bharatanatyam), Nellai D. Kannan (mridangam for dance), C.R. Radha Badhri (dance vocalist).
For 2002:
P.S. Narayanaswamy (vocal), Meera Sivaramakrishnan (violin), Ramani (veena), Vaikkom R. Gopalakrishnan (ghatam), S. Venkataraman (flute), T.S. Vasudeva Rao tabla), A.C. Jayaraman, S. Kasim (nadhaswaram), S. Sunder (music research), Krishnaveni Lakshmanan, C.V. Chandrasekhar, Ananda Shankar Jayant (Bharatanatyam), Mannargudi N. Sakthivadivel, C.P. Venkatesan, Yogam Santhanam, Melattur S. Kumar.
For 2003:
Sulochana Pattabhiraman (vocal), Nagai R. Muralidharan (violin), S. Ravindhran (veena), Mannargudi A. Eswaran (mridangam), R. Raman (morsing), H. Ramakrishnan (konnakol), Mannargudi M.S.K. Sankaranarayanan (nadhaswaram), Denkanikotta Mani (thavil), Thanjavur Rajalakshmi, G. Lakshmi Rajam, Ramya Ramnarayan (Bharatanatyam), K.S.R. Anirudha (mridangam for dance).
Tamil Isai Sangam, Madurai, will receive the shield for the best cultural forum. The portraits of artistes M.P.N. Sethuraman (nadhaswaram), Mani Krishnaswamy (vocal), Varadaiah (veena) and C.S. Murugabhoopathy (mridangam) will be unveiled.
