I was close enough! Just selected the wrong Padma Shri winner. If you solve the grid as the name spelled out, you arrive at one Padma Shri winner. When you solve the puzzle as the name represented, you arrive at another Padma Shri winner.
Rihana nice to learn about her American mother too and her (mom's) name happens to be one of an IL member's
Please don't post the answer until tomorrow. I want to take a stab at this. @Viswamitra I'll post more clues to the previous puzzle this evening.
I think I know who it is. I just used the first two pics to come up with a name. I still don't understand soka's clue. I think I have the wrong person. I thought she was a kathakali dancer too
Wait a minute!!! I did say I made no effort and was going for the first thing that popped into my mind - you had been warned!