Awards

Mahathir Award

The former South African President Nelson Mandela  was honored with the first Lifetime Campaigner for Peace and Freedom of the Mahathir award for Global Peace while former Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir received the Lifetime Campaigner for Gloabal Peace award from the Mahathir Global Peace Foundation.The awards were presented at Putrajaya International Convention Centre (PICC),Putrajaya,Malaysia for their contribution to world peace.

The Mahathir Award for Global Peace is a peace award instituted by the Mahathir Global Peace Foundation. Mahathir bin Mohamad is a Malaysian politician who was the fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia. He held the post for 22 years from 1981 to 2003, making him Malaysia's longest serving Prime Minister.


Ratan Thiyam

Ratan Thiyam appointed as the Chairperson of the National School of Drama by the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee. His term will be of 4 years. Ratan Thiyam is an Indian playwright and theatre director, and the winner of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1987, one of leading figures of the "theatre of roots" movement in Indian theatre, which started in 1970s.

He is a painter-playwright-actor-director by profession, and the founder director of Chorus Repertory Theatre in Imphal. He is the theatre director of some of the renowned plays such as Chakravyuh and Urubhangam

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