{"id":47339,"date":"2026-05-08T19:28:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=47339"},"modified":"2026-05-08T19:28:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:43:45","slug":"natikaji-memorial-society-honours-21-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/natikaji-memorial-society-honours-21-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Natikaji Memorial Society honours 21 artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, May 8: The Natikaji Memorial Society honoured 21 artists from various genres during a function held at the Office of the President today. President Ramchandra Paudel presented honours and awards.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Natikaji National Special Music Award&#8217; was presented to Narayan Kumar Acharya, Sabu Gadal Karki, Birendra Pathak, Shashi Gurung, Ganesh Parajuli, Jujukaji Ranjit, Asta Lama, Dr Bhimarjun Acharya and Nirwan Singh Gurung.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the &#8216;Natikaji National Music Award&#8217; was confirmed on Manoj Khadka, Roshan Gurung, Tara Prakash Limbu, Sarita Shahi, Chand Singh, Maheswar Man Rajbhandari, while the &#8216;Natikaji New Talent Award&#8217; was presented to Bipana Tamang, Sahima Shrestha and Suresh Lama.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Natikaji National Classical Music Award&#8217; was conferred on Pramod Upadhyay, according to Society Chair Shambhujeet Banskota.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Anant Wagle and Gita Adhikari received the &#8216;Natikaji National Art Journalism Award&#8217;.<br \/>\nChair Banskota said Natikaji, a legendry Nepali singer, musician and lyricist, explored and practiced music as a powerful creative tool for awakening the society.<\/p>\n<p>His creations reflect a fusion of patriortism, love for culture, human emotions, and extraordinary life philosophy, which have greatly contributed to elevating Nepali music to new heights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, May 8: The Natikaji Memorial Society honoured 21 artists from various genres during a function held at the Office of the President today. President Ramchandra Paudel presented honours and awards. The &#8216;Natikaji National Special Music Award&#8217; was presented to Narayan Kumar Acharya, Sabu Gadal Karki, Birendra Pathak, Shashi Gurung, Ganesh Parajuli, Jujukaji Ranjit, Asta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-entertainment","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47341,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47339\/revisions\/47341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}