Toto Awards for Photography 2021: Long-list

Twenty-seven applicants have been long-listed for the 2021 Toto Awards for Photography. Their names (in alphabetical order) are:

1. Aakriti Chandervanshi (Pune)

2. Akash Singh Chauhan (Kanpur)

3. Anirban Mishra (Padumbasan, West Bengal)

4. Ayush Goyal (Bengaluru) 

5. Caroline Joseph (Ernakulam)

6. Damini Rathore (Jaipur)

7. Dipayan Bose (Kolkata)

8. Hari Sai Srikar (Hyderabad)

9. Jahnabi Mitra (Guwahati)

10. Joseph Rahul (Kochi)

11. Mythri Babu (Ernakulam)

12. Naman Shrivastava (Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh)

13. Nilargha Chatterjee (Kolkata)

14. P. K. Surya (Erode, Tamil Nadu)

15. Parizad Dotiwalla (Mumbai)

16. Rajendra Mohan Pandey (Kolkata)

17. Ritankar Mazumder (Kolkata)

18. Sachin Chauhan (Gurgaon)

19. Sahil Chauhan (New Delhi)

20. Sharan Devkar Shankar (Chennai)

21. Siva Sai Jeevanantham (Chennai)

22. Somayya Shakir (New Delhi)

23. Soumadri Chowdhury (Kolkata)

24. Srinatha V. C. (Kolar, Karnataka)

25. Subhajit Naskar (Kolkata)

26. Vaishnavi Suresh (Bengaluru)

27. Yash Sawardekar (Mumbai)

The shortlist for these awards, selected by a three-member jury, will be announced in January 2021, and the winners in the following month. The two winners will each receive a cash prize of Rs 50,000. TFA congratulated the long-listed photographers and wishes them all the best.  

 

Toto Awards for Short Film 2021: Long-list

Thirty-nine filmmakers, from a list of 126 applicants, have been long-listed for the 2021 Toto Awards for Short Film. Their names, in alphabetical order, are:

1.  Aadya Pandey (New Delhi)

2.  Abhishek Verma (Ghaziabad)

3.  Ajay Singh Yadav (Indore)

4.  Amartya Ray (Kolkata) 

5.  Amit Kashyap (Muzaffarnagar)

6.  Anant Dass Sahni (Saharanpur)

7.  Animesh Vishal (Kanpur)

8.  Apoorva Satish (Chennai)

9.  Ashmita Guha Neogi (Faridabad)

10. Bibhanshu Rai (Adityapur, Jharkhand)

11. Binoy Krishna (Chemenchery, Koyilandi, Kerala)

12. Brishbhanu Baruah (Guwahati)

13. Debanjan Majhi (Kolkata)

14. Debankon Singh Solanky (New Delhi)

15. Devshree Nath (Lucknow)

16. Dhruv Tripathi (Mumbai) 

17. Gagan Dev (Ernakulam)

18. Gautam Gulati (Kaushambi, UP)

19. Grace Mary Sukanya (New Delhi)

20. Hyder Habib (Srinagar)

21. Kunika Kharat (Mumbai)

22. Lokesh Deshmukh (Pune)

23. Megha Acharya (New Delhi)

24. Nainisha Dedhia (Mumbai)

25. Niladri Mukherjee (Udaipur)

26. Rohit Kumar (Machhargawan, Bihar)

27. Rohith S (Bengaluru)

28. Sachin S (Kozhikode)

29. Sanju Jayvant Kadu (Raigad, Maharashtra)

30. Savyasachi Anju Prabir (Ambarnath, Maharashtra)

31. Shubham Sharma (Amritsar)

32. Shuchi Prasad (New Delhi)

33. Suraj Uddhav Madhale (Ratnagiri, Maharashtra)

34. Syed Arbab Ahmad (New Delhi)

35. Syeda Arfa Anam (Bengaluru)

36. Tathagata Ghosh (Howrah)

37. Thomas George (Kanjoor, Kerala)

38. Vrushabh Maitri (Bidar, Karnataka

39. Yashasvi Juyal (Dehradun)

TFA is very pleased to note that many filmmakers on the long-list are from places outside the major cities. The shortlist, which will be decided by a three-member jury, will be announced in January 2021 and the two winners, who will receive a cash prize of Rs 50,000 each, in February 2021. 

Toto Award for Creative Writing in Kannada 2021: Long-list

Twelve writers have been long-listed for the 2021 Toto Award for Creative Writing in Kannada. Their names, in alphabetical order, are:

1. Amulya B, Bengaluru

2. Ananth, Kenchanahalli, Tumakuru District

3. Chaitrika Naik, Siddapura 

4. Dadapeer Jaiman, Bengaluru

5. Kapil Humnabade, Kalaburagi

6. Kavyashree Naik, Honnavara

7. Mallamma Jondi, Shikkeri, Bagalkot District

8. Sahamatha, Putturu

9. Sandeep Eshanya, Mysuru

10. Shreeranjan, Putturu

11. Snehajaya Karanth, Bengaluru

12. Vighnesh Hampapura, Mysuru

The shortlist for this award will be announced in January 2021. The winner will receive a cash prize of Rs 50,000. TFA congratulates the long-listed writers and wishes them all the best. 

Toto Awards for Creative Writing (English) 2021: Long-list

Thirty writers, from a list of 232 applicants, have been long-listed for the 2021 Toto Awards for Creative Writing in English. Their names, in alphabetical order, are:

1. Aahan Desai (Bengaluru)

2. Abhimanyu Jitendra Acharya (Ahmedabad)

3. Aishwarya Mishra (Jamshedpur)

4. Alolika A Dutta (Mumbai)

5. Amulya B (Bengaluru)

6. Annika Taneja (New Delhi)

7. Aparna Chivukula (Bengaluru)

8. Avani Tandon Vieira (Mumbai)

9. Ayesha Susan Thomas (Bengaluru)

10. Bhavika Govil (Noida)

11. Debarshi Mitra (Pune)

12. Debosmita Dam (Bengaluru)

13, Fareeha Hussain (Bengaluru)

14. Fathima Zahra (Thrissur)

15. Ila Ananya (Bengaluru)  

16. Karan Kapoor (New Delhi)

17. Kunjana Parashar (Mumbai)

18. Mahesh Krishna (New Delhi)

19. Medha Singh (New Delhi)

20. Michelle Wendy D'costa (Mumbai)

21. Neha Gupta (New Delhi) 

22. Poorna Swami (Bengaluru)

23. Prashant Parvatneni (Bengaluru)

24. Rahee Punyashloka (Bhubaneswar)

25. Satya Prakash Dash (Bengaluru)

26. Suhasini Patni (Jaipur)

27. Tushar Rishi (Ranchi)

28. Uday Kanungo (Bhubaneswar)

29. Vismaya Vishwa (Bengaluru)

30. Zainab Ummer Farook (Kozhikode) 

Two winners will each receive a cash prize of Rs 50,000.  The shortlist will be announced in January 2021. Toto Funds the Arts congratulates the long-listed writers.