Gulzar and Jagadguru Rambhadracharya receive Jnanpith award
The 58th edition of the esteemed award recognizes their immense contributions to literature in Urdu and Sanskrit respectively.
The 58th edition of the esteemed award recognizes their immense contributions to literature in Urdu and Sanskrit respectively.
Sampooran Singh Kalra, popularly known as Gulzar, has penned several memorable and iconic songs in Hindi cinema.
Former Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa said that a suggestion to rename Shivamogga Airport after Rashtrakavi Kuvempu will be forwarded to Centre.
The Jnanpith awardee left an everlasting impact on Kashmir literature. He introduced modernist ideas and views in literature belonged to a league of great poets who made immense contribution to the development of new thought processes in Kashmir poetry.
Gun Island is engrossing and almost reads like a whodunit, thus reiterating Ghosh's talent as a master story teller and a craftsman of words. It is amazing how he can thread his ideas about climate change, ecological disasters, crossborder migration and global movement of refugees in search of a better life elsewhere all together in his narrative... A review
Ghosh became the first Indian writer in English to be conferred the Jnanpith Award by former Governor of West Bengal Gopalkrishna Gandhi on Wednesday.
He is also credited for bringing in the age of modern Indian playwrighting in Kannada, just as Badal Sarkar did in Bengali, Vijay Tendulkar in Marathi and Mohan Rakesh in Hindi.
