What are both Yella Venkateswara Rao and Amjad Ali Khan?
Yella Venkateswara Rao Yella Venkateswara Rao is an Indian classical musician and percussionist, considered by many as one of the leading exponents of Mridangam, an ancient Indian percussion instrument. He is featured in the Guinness Book of World Records for playing mridangam continuously for 36 hours. He has performed as an accompanist to such renowned musicians as M. S. Subbulakshmi, Ravi Shankar, Chembai, Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, M. Balamuralikrishna, L. Subramaniam, K. J. Yesudas, Amjad Ali Khan, Hariprasad Chaurasia and Bhimsen Joshi and is credited with over 15,000 performances in India and abroad. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2008, for his contributions to Music.
Akbar Khan (disability activist) Akbar Khan (Hindi: अकबर ख़ान ) is a recipient of India's National Award for The Welfare of Persons with Disability in 1989.