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The recipients of the State government’s Ugadi awards see Mannava Satyanarayana, a retired Telugu prof and HoD successful Acharya Nagarjuna University, who held the favoritism of being the archetypal visually impaired idiosyncratic successful India to execute a Ph.D. astatine the nationalist level successful the tract of literature, and Satyavada Raghunadhamma and Satyavada Suryakumari (Satyavada Sisters), some visually impaired from birth, but person been wide acclaimed Carnatic vocal musicians and prolific writers, who published astir 125 stories successful assorted magazines by dictating their thoughts to others.
D. Sivamma, an adept successful leather puppetry, who transformed the show - lone creation into a globally recognised handicraft and whose efforts thereof helped 1,000 artists successful securing livelihood. She had won the Shilp Guru Award, the highest honour successful the handicrafts assemblage successful 2023.
Surada Prasad, who created past arsenic the archetypal fisherman’s lad to triumph the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar successful 2025 successful the tract of literature, and Tamogna Mothukuri from Gudivada who, astatine conscionable 5 years of age, conquered the icy waters of Lake Bodensee, swimming 6.3 km nonstop crossed Germany and Austria successful nether 4 hours.
Gowrabathini Ramanaiah, a legendary weaver from Venkatagiri, who holds a UNESCO Certificate of Excellence handloom weaving, Chadalavada Kiran Kumar and Chadalavada Sarath Babu of Anuradha Timbers International, who did the doorway works for the Ayodhya Ram Mandir, and Tappetagullu artiste Neelabonu Satyam, who trained younker from 35 villages crossed 3 districts, mentoring 15 individuals to go autarkic Gurus themselves.
Gorrela Krishna Murthy, an exponent of Burrakatha, who gave 5,000 shows crossed India and successful assorted countries, including Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Dubai, and Bahrain, and creator Kalasagar Yellapu, whose publication titled, ‘Art of Andhra Pradesh’, won accolades.
