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72 people selected for Kempe Gowda Award

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Award instituted by Bangalore Mahanagara Palike

S.K. Karim Khan

Sunder Raj

BANGALORE: Well-known Janapada scholar and centenarian S.K. Karim Khan, actor Sunder Raj and Karnataka State Cricket Association president K.M. Ramprasad are among the 72 prominent citizens who have been selected for the Kempe Gowda Award for 2005. The award has been instituted by the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike.

The other awardees are Basvaraju Somrajegowda (Art), Honnavyachar (Art), S. Manjunathcharya (Art), Padmini Rao (Bharatanatya), C. Sobha (Sports), T. Ramesh (Sports), Tyagaraj (Sports), Y.M. Balaji Venkatesh (Sports), C.S. Suma (Sports), Madhavi Giri (Sports), Shringar Nagaraj (Film Photographer), K. Saraswathi (Theatre), T.R. Ashwathnarayana (Theatre), H.M. Paramathimahaiah (Theatre), Muniraju (Theatre), Attiguppe Krishnamurthy (Theatre), T. Srinivas (Theatre), Gulabi P. Shetty (Yoga), S.G.S. Swamy (Nageyoga Vyayama), Maleyanda Shalappa Utappa (Social Service), Lingadaveeraru Mahadevappa (Dance), Vidya Ravishankar (Dance), Yagati Mohan (Journalism), Tyagaraj (Journalism), Visveshwar Bhat (Journalism), Mugimallaiah (Archaeology), R. Sharath Babu (Environment), B.R. Ramachandra Raj (Mountaineering), M. Guha Tej (Child Artiste), C. Sunil Kumar (Education), K.R. Iqbal Ahmed (Education), Mahesh Joshi (Electronic Media), the late Rajeev (who was killed in a naxal encounter in Pavagada), K.S. Lavakumar (Dispelling Superstitions), C.V. Shivshankar (Film), Abhinaya (Film), K.R. Narasimha Shetty, Ravindran Sudhakar, K.K. Chandrappa, Ananth Raman, Kusuma Bhat, Sumitra, Kaleev Jaap, P.K. Devadas and S.S. Joshi (Medicine), N. Nanjundaswamy (Harikathe), Sudha Baragur (Hasyakale), Padma Adiga (Music), Lahari Music Company (Music), C. Ramdas, Hamsalekha, C. Natarajan, Appagere Thimmaraju, Nandini P. Rao and R.V. Raghavendra (Music), T.C. Poornima (Literature), Shantaveera Mahaswamy, S.M. Kumaraswamy, M.B. Siddappa, Neelakantha Adiga, Prabhavathi Palanivelu, Bottolanda M. Chanappa, B.S. Sabu, K. Mahendra Jain and Mohammed Anees (Social Service) and Suresh Babu (Magic).

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