Tag: Odissi Dancer Sonal Mansingh

Bhubaneswar: The President of India on Saturday nominated four persons to Rajya Sabha including Odissi exponent Sonal Mansingh and sculptor Raghunath Mohapatra. Sonal Mansingh is among India’s foremost exponents of Indian Classical Dance. She has been performing Odissi and also Bharatnatyam for over six decades. She was earlier awarded Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Sangeet […]

New Delhi: Eminent Odissi dancer Sonal Mansingh along with tabla maestro Zakir Hussain, Jatin Goswami (Sattriya) and K Kalyanasundaram Pillai (Bharatanatyam) were conferred the Sangeet Natak Akademi’s prestigious fellowships on Tuesday. The Akademi also announced 44 recipients of its awards for the year 2018, which included Odissi dancer Surupa Sen and Chhau dancer Tapan Kumar […]