Toto Award for Music 2021: Long-list

Eighteen musicians/bands have been long-listed for the 2021 Toto Award for Music. Their names are:

1. Aseem (Pune)

2. Dhi Harmony (Ranaghat, West Bengal) 

3. Fakeer and the Arc (Bengaluru)

4. 4lienetic (Mumbai) 

5. Haiku Like Imagination (Bengaluru)

6. Kaali Collective (Mumbai)

7. Kaccheri Boys (Bengaluru)

8. k o k u m (Mumbai)

9. Krameri (Vadodara) 

10. lah (Jaipur) 

11. Rudy Mukta (Bengaluru) 

12. Saby Singh (Jammu)

13. Shantanu Pandit (New Delhi)

14. Shenpa (Pune)

15. SickFlip (Mumbai)

16. The Aahvaan Project (Delhi) 

17. Three Oscillators (Mumbai)  

18. Udbhav (New Delhi) 

TFA congratulates the long-listed applicants for this award. The shortlist, selected by a three-member external jury, will be announced next month, and the winner will be disclosed in February 2021. 

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.

 

Toto Awards for English Creative Writing 2019: Long-list

Twenty-six applicants have been long-listed for the Toto Awards for English Creative Writing 2019. They are (in no particular order): 

1.  Mohamed Abbas (Bengaluru)

2.  Kaeya Zui Kumar-Reddy (Bengaluru)

3.  Shefali Elizabeth Mathew (Vellore)

4.   Jeshanth K. (Bengaluru)

5.   Debosmita Dam (Bengaluru)

6.   Shruthi Menon (Bengaluru)

7.   Darshita Jain (Nadiad, Gujarat)

8.  Debarshi Mitra (Faridabad)

9.   Riddhi Dastidar (New Delhi)

10.  Zoya Chadha (New Delhi)

11.  Rebecca Vedavathy Brindavan (Hyderabad)

12.  Yavar S. Ahmad (Mumbai)

13.  Swati Simha (Delhi)

14.  Proiti Seal Acharya (Kolkata)

15.  Kanak Rajadhyaksha (Mumbai)

16.  Avani Tandon Viera (Mumbai)

17.  Aekta Khubchandani (Mumbai)

18.  Lavanya Lakshminarayan (Bengaluru)

19.  Niyati Bhat (New Delhi)

20.  Deepak Dhruvkumar H. (Bengaluru)

21.  Shreya Ila Anasuya (Mumbai)

22.  Suzanne Sangi J. (Bengaluru)

23.  Ilana Chakma (Hyderabad)

24.  Amulya B. (Bengaluru)

25.  Agam Balooni (Dehradun)

26.  Aarthi M. (Salem)


There are two awards to be won, each carrying a cash prize of Rs 50,000. The shortlist will be announced in late November or early December 2018.

Toto Funds the Arts wishes the long-listed writers all the best!

Toto-Tasveer Awards for Photography 2019: Long-list

Twenty-six applicants have been long-listed for the Toto-Tasveer Awards 2019. They are (in no particular order):

1. Abhishek Anil, Mumbai 
2. Cyril Kuhn, Dehradun
3. Vikram Choudhary, New Delhi 
4. Ajith Vijayan Namboothiri, Mumbai 
5. Debsuddha Banerjee, Kolkata
6. Aman Raj, Delhi 
7. Kanza Fatima, New Delhi 
8. Rishi Kochhar, Gandhinagar 
9. Ankit Banerjee, Bengaluru 
10. Sandeep T K, Thalassery 
11. Kevin Ilango, Secunderabad 
12. Santanu Dey, Kolkata  
13. V. Vinod Babu, Hyderabad
14. Ritaban Ghosh, Hooghly 
15. Taranbir Singh Sawhney, Gurgaon  
16. Sharafat Ali, Srinagar 
17. Sabari S V, Aldona, Goa 
18. Ankita Jain, Mumbai 
19. Krithika Sriram, Chennai  
20. Anuj Arora, New Delhi  
21. Naman Saraiya, Kolkata 
22. Rahul Nair, Navi Mumbai 
23. Anurag, Mumbai 
24. Avinash Chavan, Jalgaon 
25. Siddhesh Kankekar, Mumbai 
26. Rohit Kumar, New Delhi 

There are two awards to be won, each carrying a cash prize of Rs 50,000. The shortlist will be announced in late November or early December 2018.

Toto Funds the Arts wishes the long-listed photographers all the best!

Toto Award for Creative Writing in Kannada: Long-list

Thirteen writers have been long-listed for the Toto Award for Creative Writing in Kannada (2018). They are

1. Chaithra Kotoor, Kolar

2. Hema Nayak, Ankola

3. Hemalatha Puttanarasaiah, Bengaluru

4. Pravara, K V, Ballari

5. Manjunayak Chellur, Bengaluru

6. Mustafa K H, Mangaluru

7. Praveen Kumar G, Bengaluru

8. Prasad Shenoy, Karkala

9. Radhika N R, Bengaluru

10. Sandeep Kumar H S, Mysuru

11. Sathwik N N, Bengaluru

12. Shruthi B R, Mysuru

13. Sourabha Rao, Bengaluru

TFA congratulates the long-listed writers and wishes them all the best!

Toto-Tasveer Awards for Photography (2018): Long-list

Fifteen applicants have been long-listed for the Toto-Tasveer Awards for Photography 2018. They are:

1. Santanu Dey, Kolkata

2. Sagar Shiriskar, Mumbai

3. Masood Sarwer, New Delhi 

4. Priyank Gotjwal, Udaipur

5. Meghna Shirish, Bengaluru 

6. Mourya Danda, Vishakapatnam 

7. Abhishek Anupam, Mumbai 

8. Lokesh Dang, Gurgaon 

9. Sankar Sarkar, Kolkata 

10. Aishwarya Arumbakkam, Mumbai 

11. Taha Ahmed, New Delhi 

12. Jeet Sengupta, Kolkata

13. Pravara K, Ballari 

14. Sourajit Saha, Kolkata 

15. Ranita Roy, Howrah

TFA congratulates the long-listed photographers and wishes them all the best!

Toto Awards 2018 for Creative Writing (English): Long-list

Twenty writers have been long-listed for the Toto Awards for Creative Writing in English. They are (in no particular order):

1. Purvai Aranya (Panchkula, Haryana) 

2. Gaurav Deka (New Delhi) 

3. Urvashi Bahuguna (Gurgaon)

4. Sourabha Rao (Bengaluru) 

5. Salik Shah (New Delhi) 

6. Akshat Jain (Jaipur) 

7. Rebecca Vedavathy (Bengaluru) 

8. Devanshu Misra (New Delhi)

9. Aekta Khubchandani (Mumbai) 

10. Shikha Gupta (Bengaluru) 

11. Kanak Rajadhyaksha (Mumbai) 

12. Maya Palit (Bengaluru) 

13. Shreya Ila Anasuya (Kolkata) 

14. Poorna Swami (Bengaluru) 

15. Kamayani Sharma (Dehradun)

16. H.B. Kiruba (Bengaluru) 

17. Ila Ananya (Hyderabad)

18. Vijeta Kumar (Bengaluru)

19. Somendra Singh Kharola (Bengaluru)

20. Anirban Nanda (East Midnapore, West Bengal)

TFA congratulates the long-listed applicants and wishes them all the best!

Toto Award 2017 for Creative Writing in Kannada: Long-list

Thirteen writers have been long-listed for the Toto Award 2017 for Creative Writing in Kannada. They are (in no particular order):

1. Sourabha Rao (Bengaluru)

2. Yogesha K.S. (Bengaluru)

3. Avinash G. Krishna (Mysuru)

4. Prateek Mukunda (Bengaluru)

5. Madhusudana Y.N. (Bengaluru)

6. Prasad Shenoy (Karkala, Udupi District)

7. Rajashekara C.  (Bengaluru)

8. Chaitra Kotoor (Kolar)

9. Praveen Kumar G. (Bengaluru)

10. Dayananda  (Bengaluru)

11. K. Aravind Mitra (Mysuru)

12. Sandeep Eshanya (Mysuru)

13. K.V. Pravara (Chitradurga)

The shortlist will be announced later this month. 

Toto-Tasveer Awards for Photography 2017: Long-list

Sixteen applicants have been long-listed for the Toto-Tasveer Awards for Photography 2017. They are (in no particular order):

1. Meghana Shirish Iyer (Bengaluru)

2. Mitul Kajaria (Kolhapur, Maharashtra)

3. Sreejith Ek (Malappuram, Kerala)

4. Sutirtha Chatterjee (Kolkata)

5. Indranil Banerjee (Kolkata)

6. Tabeenah Anjum Quereshi (Jaipur)

7. Shampa Kabi (Thane, Maharashtra)

8. Cyril Lucido Kuhn (Dehradun)

9. Anand Krishnan K.L. (Bengaluru)

10. Vinod Babu V. (Hyderabad)

11. Kekhrie Zhazo Miachieo (New Delhi)

12. Sarang Naik (Mumbai)

13. Manish Sharma (New Delhi)

14. Karthik Krishnaswamy (Bengaluru)

15. Aditi Jain (Delhi)

16. Subal K.R. (Kolkata)

The shortlist will be announced in December.

Toto Awards for Short Film 2017: Long-list

Fifteen applicants have been long-listed for the Toto Awards for Short Film 2017. They are (in no particular order):

1. Archana Chandrashekar (Thane, Maharashtra) 

2. Maisam Ali (Pune)

3. Vikrant Dhote (Mumbai) 

4. Medini Kelamane (Bengaluru) 

5. Shruti Caulagi (Hyderabad) 

6. Savyasachi Prabir (Ambernath, Maharashtra)

7. Mukul Haloi (Nalbari, Assam) 

8. Nundrisha Wakhloo (New Delhi) 

9. Daksh Punj (New Delhi) 

10. Rashesh Desai (Gandhinagar) 

11. Himanshu Prajapati (Ghazipur, U.P.)

12. Sasha Singh (Gurgaon) 

13. Aditi Saraswat (Mumbai) 

14. Pankul Gupta (New Delhi) 

15. Ninni Sahu (Wardha, Maharashtra)

The shortlist will be announced in December.

Toto Music Award 2017: Long-list

Eleven musicians/bands have been long-listed for the Toto Music Award 2017. They are (in no particular order):

1. Dhruv Visvanath (New Delhi) 

2. When Chai Met Toast (Thiruvananthapuram) 

3. The F16s (Chennai) 

4. Disco Puppet (Bengaluru) 

5. Alisha Pais (Mumbai)

6. Achint (Mumbai)

7. Ujjwal Agarwal (Jaipur)

8. Kumail Hamid (Mumbai)

9. Spud in the Box (Mumbai)

10. Opposite Sex (Bengaluru)

11. Barty’s Path (Mumbai)


The shortlist will be announced in December.