19 October, Agartala: Raju Mog, a Mog folk artist from Bir Chandra Manu in South Tripura district, has received the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar 2025, one of the country’s highest honours for young artists. For the past two decades, he has been practising the traditional Sangrain folk dance of Tripura’s Mog community with dedication.
At a simple ceremony held today at the Meghdoot Theatre Complex in Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, Union Minister for Culture and Tourism Gajendra Singh Shekhawat presented Raju Mog with the prestigious award in the form of an uttariya and a copper plaque.
Congratulating Raju Mog on becoming the first young artist from the state’s Mog community to receive this award, Unuching Mog, general secretary of the Mog Socio-Cultural Organisation, said that the news had brought immense happiness to the Mog community across the state. He also expressed the view that Raju Mog’s achievement would further encourage the younger generation to practise and promote the traditional folk dance of the Mog community.
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