The Sri Raja-Lakshmi Foundation is an Indian charitable trust that promotes arts, sciences, literature, medicine, journalism, humanities and other intellectual pursuits and to honour distinguished persons in these fields. Established in 1979 in Chennai by Late P.V. Ramaniah Raja, a businessman, the Foundation instituted the Raja-Lakshmi Award.
Raja-Lakshmi Award
Award for contributions to Fine Arts, Music, Science, Journalism, Medicine, Social Service
Erstwhile the Raja–Lakshmi Award carried a prize amount of ₹100,000/-, a Citation and a Plaque. The Awardees also received the Dr. K.V. Rao and Dr. Jyoti Rao Award of US$2000, in association with the Telugu Fine Arts Society (TFAS), New Jersey, USA.
The Foundation has also instituted the Ratna Rao Memorial Prize which is awarded annually to the best student in M.Sc. Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
Ramaniah Raja, Managing Trustee, Sri Raja-Lakshmi Foundation
The organisation, along with the Raja–Lakshmi Award, instituted awards such as the Raja–Lakshmi Literary Award (1987–1999) and "Recognise the Teacher" Award. Special awards (Raja–Lakshmi Visishta Puraskar) have also been announced on a one-off basis. Lakshmi-Raja Vaidika Puraskar was instituted in 1994, coinciding with the 60th birthday of Smt. Mahalakshmi Raja, founder trustee of the Foundation. This Award honours Vedic scholars, and consists of a Citation, a plaque and a cash prize of ₹25,000/-.
These Awards were announced on August 15 (birthday of Late Smt. Mahalakshmi Raja) every year and presented at a function on November 19 (birthday of Sri Ramaniah Raja) in the same year.
Activities
The Foundation is now actively involved in charitable work in areas of Education, Education improvement, Environment, Health, Culture and assistance for special children.
Recipients
Raja-Lakshmi Award
Dr.Bezawada Gopala Reddy presenting the first Raja-Lakshmi Award to Sri Sri on 19.11.1979
Smt.Mahalakshmi Raja presenting the 1985 Raja-Lakshmi Award to Mandolin Srinivas
Sadguru Sivananda Murty presenting the 2004 Raja-Lakshmi Award to Smt.Sudha Murty
Raja-Lakshmi Awards-2008, L to R: R.Sekar IPS, N.Murali, Pappu Venugopala Rao, R.Venkatraman Ghanapaati, Koneru Humpy, Balakrishna Prasad, B.S.R.Krishna, Janani Krishna
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The Sri Raja Lakshmi Foundation is an Indian charitable trust that promotes arts sciences literature medicine journalism humanities and other intellectual pursuits and to honour distinguished persons in these fields Established in 1979 in Chennai by Late P V Ramaniah Raja a businessman the Foundation instituted the Raja Lakshmi Award Raja Lakshmi AwardAward for contributions to Fine Arts Music Science Journalism Medicine Social ServiceSponsored bySri Raja Lakshmi FoundationReward s Indian Rupees One LakhFirst awarded1979Last awarded2009HighlightsTotal awarded31First winnerSri SriLast winnerSunita NarainE Erstwhile the Raja Lakshmi Award carried a prize amount of 100 000 a Citation and a Plaque The Awardees also received the Dr K V Rao and Dr Jyoti Rao Award of US 2000 in association with the Telugu Fine Arts Society TFAS New Jersey USA The Foundation has also instituted the Ratna Rao Memorial Prize which is awarded annually to the best student in M Sc Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras Contents 1 History 2 Activities 3 Recipients 3 1 Raja Lakshmi Award 3 2 Raja Lakshmi Literary Award 3 3 Lakshmi Raja Vaidika Puraskar 3 4 Raja Lakshmi Recognise the Teacher Award 3 5 Raja Lakshmi Visishta Puraskar 3 6 Ratna Rao Memorial Prize 4 Memorial lectures delivered 5 Publications 6 External links 6 1 Newspaper ArticlesHistory Edit Ramaniah Raja Managing Trustee Sri Raja Lakshmi Foundation The organisation along with the Raja Lakshmi Award instituted awards such as the Raja Lakshmi Literary Award 1987 1999 and Recognise the Teacher Award Special awards Raja Lakshmi Visishta Puraskar have also been announced on a one off basis Lakshmi Raja Vaidika Puraskar was instituted in 1994 coinciding with the 60th birthday of Smt Mahalakshmi Raja founder trustee of the Foundation This Award honours Vedic scholars and consists of a Citation a plaque and a cash prize of 25 000 These Awards were announced on August 15 birthday of Late Smt Mahalakshmi Raja every year and presented at a function on November 19 birthday of Sri Ramaniah Raja in the same year Activities EditThe Foundation is now actively involved in charitable work in areas of Education Education improvement Environment Health Culture and assistance for special children Recipients EditRaja Lakshmi Award Edit Dr Bezawada Gopala Reddy presenting the first Raja Lakshmi Award to Sri Sri on 19 11 1979 Smt Mahalakshmi Raja presenting the 1985 Raja Lakshmi Award to Mandolin Srinivas Sadguru Sivananda Murty presenting the 2004 Raja Lakshmi Award to Smt Sudha Murty Raja Lakshmi Awards 2008 L to R R Sekar IPS N Murali Pappu Venugopala Rao R Venkatraman Ghanapaati Koneru Humpy Balakrishna Prasad B S R Krishna Janani Krishna Year Awardee Area1979 Sri Sri Literature1980 Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna Music1981 Vempati Chinna Satyam Dance1981 Nerella Venumadhav Mimicry1982 Bapu Graphic art1983 Yelavarthy Nayudamma Science1984 Tanguturi Suryakumari Music and Dance1985 Mandolin Srinivas Music1986 G K Reddy Journalism1987 Dr B Ramamurthi Medicine1988 C Narayanareddy Literature1989 Bezawada Gopala Reddy Politics1990 Lata Mangeshkar Music1991 Nataraja Ramakrishna Dance1992 Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu Trust Music1993 P Sainath Journalism1994 G Ram Reddy Education1995 Dr Ambati Balamurali Krishna Medicine1996 Abid Hussain Administration1997 A Chennagantamma Social service1998 Bhanumathi Ramakrishna Actor1999 A S Raman Journalism1999 S V Rama Rao Art2000 K Sivananda Murty Social service2001 Govindappa Venkataswamy Medicine2002 Nedunuri Krishna Murthy Music2003 Biruduraju Ramaraju Literature2004 Sudha Murthy Philanthropy2005 Malladi Chandrasekhara Sastry Vedic Scholar2006 S P Balasubrahmanyam Cine Playback Singer2007 Dr Ch Gnaneswar Memorial Endowment Fund Medicine2008 Koneru Humpy Sports2009 Sunita Narain Environmental ScienceRaja Lakshmi Literary Award Edit Mayor Sabbam Hari presenting the 1995 Raja Lakshmi Literary Award to Sri Mullapudi Venkata Ramana Year Awardee1987 Ravuri Bharadwaja1988 Nagabhairava Koteswara Rao1989 Tirumala Ramachandra1990 Ramavarapu Krishnamurthy Sastry1991 Boyi Bhimanna1992 Sribhashyam Appalacharyulu1993 Mikkilineni1994 P S R Appa Rao1995 Mullapudi Venkata Ramana1996 Malati Chandur1997 Mallampalli Sarabheswara Sarma1998 K Ramalakshmi1999 Kothapalli Veerabhadra Rao amp Dwivedula VisalakshiLakshmi Raja Vaidika Puraskar Edit Year Awardee1994 Brahmasri Lanka Venkata Ramasastry Somayaji1995 Brahmasri Sannidhanam Lakshminarayana Sastry1996 Brahmasri Dendukoori Agnihotra Somayaji1997 Brahmasri Remella Suryaprakasa Sastry1998 Goda Subrahmanya Sastry1999 Brahmasri Bhamidipati Mitranarayana Yajulu2000 Dendukuri Venkatappa Yagnanarayana Poundarika Yajulu amp Samavedam Ramagopala Sastry2001 Brahmasri Gullapalli Anjaneya Ghanapaati2002 Brahmasri Evani Ramakrishna Ghanaapati2003 Brahmasri Adithe Suryanarayana Murty2004 Dr Vishnubhatla Subrahmanya Sastry2005 Veda Vibushana Kuppa Siva Subrahmanya Avadhani2006 Sripada Srirama Nrusimha amp Sripada Krishnamurthy Ghanaapati2007 Gullapalli Venkata Narayana Ghanaapati2008 R Venkatrama Ghanapaati2009 Vangala Ramamurthy Ghanapaati2010 Dendukuri Venkata Hanumadganaapati Somayaji2011 Yanamandra Subrahmanya Somayajulu2012 Vishnubhotla Sriramamurthy Sastry2013 Kuppa Ramagopala Vajpeyi2014 Dendukuri Venkateswara GhanapaatiRaja Lakshmi Recognise the Teacher Award Edit Year Awardee1997 Dr Jaya Venugoapala Rao1998 K S Anand1999 Gulla Usha BalaRaja Lakshmi Visishta Puraskar Edit Year Awardee1983 Palagummi Padmaraju1992 M S Bharat1998 Bhavaraju Sarveswara Rao2002 Gollapudi Maruthi Rao2004 Bapu amp Ramana2008 Garimella Balakrishna PrasadRatna Rao Memorial Prize Edit Year Awardee2001 D Vasumathi2002 Iyer Karthik Srinivasan2003 Nandini Ananth2004 Samanwita Pal2005 S Ashok2006 Sayani Chattopadhyay2007 Rakesh Paul2008 Krishnendu Saha2009 Sovan Biswas2010 Sourav Maiti2011 Prem Kumar Chanani2012 R Srinivasan2013 Avijit Baidya2014 Sayan Dutta2015 Manisha Samanta2016 Anindita Mahapatra2017 Nisha2018 Ruchira BasuMemorial lectures delivered Edit Sri T A Venkateswaran delivering the Memorial Lecture for the year 2007 Year Awardee2002 A Prasanna Kumar2003 Ajeya Kallam2004 Dr B P Rajan2005 T V Sairam amp B M Rao2006 K Sivaprasad Gupta2007 K Chaya Devi Dr K Venkateswarulu amp T A Venkateswaran2008 Dr Perala Balamurali2009 Dr Kanthamani SundharkrishnanPublications EditS No Year Name of Publication Author01 1985 Bhaja Govindam Dr Pappu Venugopala Rao02 1986 Sundara Kandamu Usha Sri03 1987 Leela Krishnudu Indraganti Srikantha Sarma04 1988 Nityarchana Dr Pappu Venugopala Rao05 1990 Sri Mata Sri Mataji Thyagisanandapuri06 1992 Aatma Bodha Karidehal Venkata Rao07 1996 Sanatsu Jateeya Sourabham Prof Salaaka Raghunadha Sarma08 2000 Sivananda Lahari Hamsa Prof Salaaka Raghunadha Sarma09 2006 Pratibha Panchamrutham Rambhatla Nrusimha Sarma10 2006 Ramadas and Thyagaraja Prof A Prasanna KumarExternal links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sri Raja Lakshmi Foundation Newspaper Articles Edit Build wealth without destroying environment The Hindu Friday Nov 20 2009 Raja Lakshmi award for Sunita Narain The Hindu Saturday Aug 15 2009 Stress on regular eye check up The Hindu Thursday March 12 2009 Raja Lakshmi Foundation awards presented The Hindu Thursday November 20 2008 Raja Lakshmi Award Young World The Hindu Tuesday August 19 2008 Sharath Humpy to receive award The Hindu Friday August 15 2008 Chess prodigy table tennis player to get Raja Lakshmi award The Hindu Thursday August 14 2008 Raja Lakshmi Award presented The Hindu Tuesday November 20 2007Lending it the S P Touch The Hindu Nov 21 2006 Raja Lakshmi award for S P Balasubrahmanyam The Hindu August 15 2006 Malladi Chandrasekhara Sastry selected for Raja Lakshmi award The Hindu August 15 2005 Raja Lakshmi Award for Sudha Murty The Hindu Aug 15 2004 Usurped Rewarding Eminence The Hindu Nov 25 2002 Usurped Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Sri Raja Lakshmi Foundation amp oldid 1121368248, 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