Venkateswara Rao, the former professor at Potti Sriramulu Telugu University, is regarded as one of the leading exponents of Mridangam. Renowned violinist Annavarapu Rama Swamy, a nonagenarian ...

Mridangam exponent Guruvayur Dorai, who has been honoured with Padma Shri is one of the senior-most Mridangam artists in the country. Born in 1935 at Guruvayur to G.S. Krishna Iyer and Meenakshi ...

Recipients included 94-year-old Veena maestro R Vishweshwaran, mridangam legend Vidwan A Anand, Yakshagana icon Bannanje Suvarna, and garba maestro Atul Purohit among others.