Besides Khan and Subrahmanyam, the highest honour of Akademi Fellowship (Akademi Ratna) will be conferred on Mukund Lath, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Shivkumar Sharma, Umayalpuram Kasiviswanatha Sivaraman, Mohan Chandrasekaran, Rajkumar Singhajit Singh, Kalamandalam Gopi, Chandrasekhar Basavanneppa Kambara and Heisnam Kanhailal.
The fellowships will be awarded by Mukherjee at a function here on October nine.
They will receive purse money of Rs three lakhs, besides an angavastram and a tamrapatra. The fellowship of the Akademi is an honour restricted to a limited number at a given time.
Presently, there are only 40 living fellows of the Sangeet Natak Akademi.
In the field of music, dance and theatre, a total of 26 artists will receive the Akademi Award 2011, while another eight eminent personalities will be awarded for their contribution to other traditional, folk, tribal music and puppetry.
Shrivatsa Goswami will receive the Akademi Award 2011 for Overall Contribution and Scholarship to Performing Arts.
Alakhnandan (Theatre-Direction) and Sundari Krishnalal Shridharani (Overall Contribution) were also selected for Akademi Awards 2011. Due to their demise, the said Award will be conferred on them posthumously.
