Midwife, musicologist, vocalists get Padma Shri

BENGALURU: Nine eminent individuals from Karnataka have bagged Padma awards for the year 2018. Cue sports exponent Pankaj Advani has been honoured with the Padma Bhushan, while Kannada poet and lyricist Doddarange Gowda (Art and Lyrics);

Sitavva Jodatti

from Belagavi and midwife

Sulagitti Narasamma

from

Tumakuru

(Social Work); R Sathyanarayan, Ibrahim Sutar, Rudrapatnam N Thyagarajan and Rudrapatnam N Tharanathan (Art & Music) and

Siddeshwara Swami

(Spiritualism) were chosen for the Padma Shri.