Pravasi Express Awards

Pravasi Express Awards

Pravasi Express Award in 2013
Awarded for Excellence in Community Service & Arts
Country Singapore
Presented by Pravasi Publications
First awarded 2013

Pravasi Express Awards (PE Awards) was introduced in 2013 for appreciating personalities for their outstanding contributions to the society and also the admirable endeavour in their chosen field/profession. The awards are being overseen by Pravasi Publications from Singapore who publishes the Pravasi Express Newspaper.

History

The first Pravasi Express Awards were presented on 4 August 2013 in a public function at Spring Auditorium, Singapore with over 400 guests. The Former Chief Minister of Kerala V. S. Achuthanandan was awarded the first Pravasi Express “Life Achievement Award” in the ceremony. The award ceremony was presided over by Ambassador-at-Large Gopinatha Pillai with the presence of famous Malayalam Lyrist Anil Panachooran and actor Unni Mukundan.[1][2]

The second edition of Pravasi Express Awards were presented during the third anniversary celebration of Pravasi Express held on 5 July 2014 at Nexus Auditorium, Singapore.The award ceremony was presided over by Ambassador-at-Large Gopinatha Pillai and famous singer Jayachandran has been awarded the “Life Achievement Award” for his contribution to music. National Award winner Priyamani has been awarded the "Youth Icon Award" and the award night turned out to be a memorable one by the musical performances of Jayachandran, Chandralekha, Ragesh Brahmanandan and Snehaja.

Awards

Pravasi Express Chief Editor RajeshKumar presenting " Life Time Achievement Award 2013" to V. S. Achuthanandan

Pravasi Express awards are given to Indians from different part of the world, to honor their priceless contributions to the society and also the meritorious endeavour in their chosen field/profession. The awards cover different categories like social commitment, business excellence, contribution to Malayalee diaspora, arts and also to appreciate the emerging champions in all the categories. [3] [4] [5]

2014 Awards

The awards were presented by Ambassador-at-Large Gopinatha Pillai, Actress Priyamani, All Malaysia Malayalee Association president Ravindran Menon and other famous personalities from India and Singapore. The award categories are as follows:[6][7]

PE Life Time Achievement Award Jayachandran, Famous Singer
PE Malayalee Ratna Award Tan Sri Datuk Ravindran Menon, Malaysia
PE Literary Award M.K Bhasi, Malayalam poet and writer, Singapore
PE Youth Icon of the Year Priyamani, National Award winner Actress
PE Vanitha Ratna Award Latha K Namboodiri, Krystal Group, Bangalore
PE Business Excellence Award Alexander Vadakkedam , India
PE Young Entrepreneur Award Reju Kumar, Singapore
PE Young Achiever Award Varun Chandran, Corporate360, Singapore.

Special Categories

Pravasi Express – Rising Star Award was given to outstanding Malayalee youngster in social, arts, sports or academics category. This award was given to Miss.Anjali George for her outstanding performance in contemporary art and creative paintings.

Editorial Excellence Awards

The winners of Pravasi Express – Editorial Excellence Awards 2014 are as follows:

PE Journalist of the year Basil Baby
PE Photojournalist of the year Lijesh Karunakaran
PE Special Award Ms.Chitra KrishnaKumar, Krishna Lal PV, Panayam Liju, MKV Rajesh and Venmony Bimalraj

2013 Awards

The awards were presented by Ambassador-at-Large Gopinatha Pillai, lyrist Anil Panachooran, actor Unni Mukundan and many other famous personalities in Singapore. The award categories is as follows:[8][9][10]

PE Life Time Achievement Award V. S. Achuthanandan, Former Chief Minister of Kerala
PE Literary Award Anil Panachooran , Malayalam film lyricist and poet
PE Youth Icon of the Year Unni Mukundan , Film Actor
PE Social Excellence Award P. K. Koshy , President Singapore Malayalee Association
PE Business Excellence Award Tony Vincent, Aratt Developers, Bangalore, India
PE Young Entrepreneur Award Ajith Kumar T, Singapore Coliseum, Singapore
PE Yuva Pravasi Award Syam Kumar Prabhakaran, Malayalam Educational Society, Singapore.

Special Categories

The award ceremony also witnessed the honoring of two eminent Malayalees in Singapore. Shekhari Varma, Maharaja of Palaghat and was a freedom fighter for Indian Independence. Dominic Puthucheary, founding member of the People Action Party in Singapore and Malayalee who participated in shaping of Singapore.

Pravasi Express – Rising Star Award was given to outstanding Malayalee youngster in social, sports or academics category. This award was given to Vishal Thaniyath, U-16 Football Player in Singapore S.League.

Editorial Excellence Awards

Pravasi Express – Editorial Excellence Awards was introduced to recognize individuals on their contributions in different news arena and the winners were as follows

PE Journalist of the year Basil Baby
PE Newspaper Feature Writer of the year Panayam Liju
PE Photojournalist of the year Nivesh Thekkarath
PE Special Award Gini Gangadharan, A.R Jose and Mr. Subu Iyer
Editorial contributions Ms Chitra Krishna Kumar and Ms Suchitthra Vasu

References

  1. ↑ Kaumudi NewsPaper. "www.kaumudi.com". Keralakaumudi. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  2. ↑ V.S Achuthanandan Awarded Life Time Achievement Award. "Manorama Online".
  3. ↑ Pravasi Express Awards 2013. "eMalayalee". eMalayalee.
  4. ↑ Pravasi Express Award night held in Singapore. "Pravasi Express Online". Pravasi Express.
  5. ↑ Pravasi Express Life Time achievement award given to VS. "DeepikaOnline". DeepikaOnline.
  6. ↑ 2014, Pravasi Express. "Pravasi Express -2014". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brIfi6oiu3w. External link in |website= (help)
  7. ↑ Pravasi Express News Online|http://www.pravasiexpress.com/index.php?article=1008
  8. ↑ Introduction to Pravasi Express Awards. "Introduction to Pravasi Express Awards".
  9. ↑ YouTube. "V. S. Achuthanandan Award Ceremony".
  10. ↑ PravasiExpress. "Award Ceremony Pictures". PravasiExpress NewsPaper. Retrieved 1 February 2014.

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