Chintha Raveendran Award for actor Bhavana

Actor Bhavana has been selected for the ‘Chinta Ravindran Award 2026’, which is given in memory of the filmmaker, art critic and travel writer.

The award, which includes a bag of ₹50,000, quotations and a statue, will be presented to the actor at an event to be held at Kozhikode Town Hall on July 25, a press release said here on Saturday. The award jury, comprising poet K. Satchidanandan and journalists KC Narayanan and MP Surendran, said Ms. Bhavana was chosen for this honor for her struggles to maintain the independent existence of women in the social life of Kerala.

Writer NS Madhavan will preside over the award ceremony, where veteran journalist Shashi Kumar and writer Paul Zacharia will also speak. N. Ram, former Editor-in-Chief, Hinduand Director, The Hindu Group Publishing Private Ltd., will deliver a lecture on ‘Disrupting the republic: How Hindutva authoritarianism is tearing apart the basic structure of the Indian Constitution’.

This is the seventh award given in memory of Ravindran, who passed away in 2011. As part of the commemoration event, an exhibition will also be held at the Kerala Lalithakala Akademi Art Gallery, Kozhikode, from July 20. The exhibition titled ‘Echoes of an unfinished dream’ will be curated by artist Sunil Ashokapuram. The opening ceremony was to be performed by sculptor Valsan Koorma Kolleri. The exhibition is part of the foundation’s nationwide ‘Names of Gaza’ events, where the names of 18,000 children killed in Israel’s attack on the Palestinian town are read.