TAPAS Cultural Foundation presented the Vidhya Tapasvi and Bhakthi Prachara Samman awards to eminent musicians and dancers at a ceremony held at Chinmaya Heritage Centre recently. While the Vidhya Tapasvi awards were presented to O S Thyagarajan, Gopika Varma and Embar Kasturi for Sangeetham, Natyam and Pravachanam respectively. Kalakkad Thyagarajan. Kalakkad Srinivasan, P B Srirangachari, B Umashankar, K M Balamuralikrishna,Girija Hariharan, Shobhana Balachandra, Lakshmi Ramaswamy, Suryanaranayanamurthy, Induvadana Malli, Priya Murale, Kavitha Ramu, Mahalakshmi Ashwin and Smt. Radhika Vairavel were presented with the Bhakthi Prachara Samman for their contribution to music.