Sri Raja-Lakshmi Foundation


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.
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, 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.

History

The organisation, along with the Raja–Lakshmi Award, instituted awards such as the Raja–Lakshmi Literary Award and "Recognise the Teacher" Award. Special awards 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 every year and presented at a function on November 19 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

YearAwardeeArea
1979Sri SriLiterature
1980Mangalampalli BalamuralikrishnaMusic
1981Vempati Chinna SatyamDance
1981Nerella VenumadhavMimicry
1982BapuGraphic art
1983Yelavarthy NayudammaScience
1984Tanguturi SuryakumariMusic and Dance
1985Mandolin SrinivasMusic
1986G. K. ReddyJournalism
1987Dr.B.RamamurthiMedicine
1988C. NarayanareddyLiterature
1989Bezawada Gopala ReddyPolitics
1990Lata MangeshkarMusic
1991Nataraja RamakrishnaDance
1992Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu TrustMusic
1993P. SainathJournalism
1994G. Ram ReddyEducation
1995Dr.Ambati Balamurali KrishnaMedicine
1996Abid HussainAdministration
1997A. ChennagantammaSocial service
1998Bhanumathi RamakrishnaActor
1999A.S.RamanJournalism
1999S.V.Rama RaoArt
2000K Sivananda MurtySocial service
2001Govindappa VenkataswamyMedicine
2002Nedunuri Krishna MurthyMusic
2003Biruduraju RamarajuLiterature
2004Sudha MurthyPhilanthropy
2005Malladi Chandrasekhara SastryVedic Scholar
2006S P BalasubrahmanyamCine Playback Singer
2007Dr. Ch. Gnaneswar Memorial Endowment FundMedicine
2008Koneru HumpySports
2009Sunita NarainEnvironmental Science

Raja-Lakshmi Literary Award

YearAwardee
1987Ravuri Bharadwaja
1988Nagabhairava Koteswara Rao
1989Tirumala Ramachandra
1990Ramavarapu Krishnamurthy Sastry
1991Boyi Bhimanna
1992Sribhashyam Appalacharyulu
1993Mikkilineni Radhakrishna Murthy
1994P.S.R.Appa Rao
1995Mullapudi Venkata Ramana
1996Malati Chandur
1997Mallampalli Sarabheswara Sarma
1998K.Ramalakshmi
1999Kothapalli Veerabhadra Rao & Dwivedula Visalakshi

Lakshmi-Raja Vaidika Puraskar

Raja-Lakshmi Recognise the Teacher Award

Raja-Lakshmi Visishta Puraskar

Ratna Rao Memorial Prize

Memorial lectures delivered

Publications

S.No.YearName of PublicationAuthor
011985Bhaja GovindamDr.Pappu Venugopala Rao
021986Sundara KandamuUsha Sri
031987Leela KrishnuduIndraganti Srikantha Sarma
041988NityarchanaDr.Pappu Venugopala Rao
051990Sri MataSri Mataji Thyagisanandapuri
061992Aatma BodhaKaridehal Venkata Rao
071996Sanatsu Jateeya SourabhamProf.Salaaka Raghunadha Sarma
082000Sivananda Lahari HamsaProf.Salaaka Raghunadha Sarma
092006Pratibha PanchamruthamRambhatla Nrusimha Sarma
102006Ramadas and ThyagarajaProf.A.Prasanna Kumar

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