Jnanpith(Gyanpith) Award


<big> Jnanpith Award 2016 </big> <br>Jyanpith Award Winners List </br>

The Literary award Jnanpith or Gyanpith is one of the highest literary honour in India. Some call it Gyanpeeth award also. The award is meant to recognize, nurture and promote the excellence in writing in all recognized Indian languages
.
The Jnanpith award is awarded every year for best creative writing to an Indian citizen in any of the languages that are included in Schedule VIII of the Indian Constitution. This award is considered to be the most prestigious literary award of the country
.
This Award is sponsored by the Bharatiya Jnanpith trust, which is a literary and cultural organisation that was set up in 1944, by the late Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain and his wife Rama Jain. The Jain family are the publishers of The Times of India newspaper
.

The Jnanpith Award

: It carries a cash price of Rs 11 lakhs, a citation plank and a bronze replica of goddess Saraswati
.
Prior to 1982, the Jnanpith Award were given for a single work of Author, but after that, the Jnanpith Award is being given for the lifetime contribution of the writer to the Indian literature
.
The latest Jnanpith Award has been the 52st Jnanpith Award to veteran modern Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh for year 2016. He is a leading authority on Rabindranath Tagore. Ghosh was conferred the Padma Bhushan in 2011 and the Sahitya Academi award in 1999. Shankha Ghosh is the seventh Bengali author to win India’s highest literary award
.

Eminent modern Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh was chosen for the prestigious Jnanpith Award for the year 2016. He is the 52nd recipient of Jnanpith Award. He is sixth Bengali litterateur to bag this prestigious literary award after Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (1966), Bishnu Dey (1971), Ashapoorna Devi (1976), Subhash Mukhopadhyay (1991) and Mahasweta Devi (1966)
.
About Shankha Ghosh
:
Born on 6 February 1932 in Chandpur now in Bangladesh. He is prolific poet, critic and academician
.
He is regarded a leading authority on Rabindranath in addition to being one of the most prolific writers in Bengali
.
He is considered as a poet with an eye to social milieu and his poems record both his time and space in a rare poetic style. His poems are often laden with messages, but are free from polemics
.
Some of his famous poems are ‘Adim lata-gulmomay’, ‘Kabir abhipray’, ‘Murkha baro, samajik nay’, ‘Mukh dheke jay bigyapane’, ‘Babarer prarthana’, Dinguli Raatguli and ‘Nihita Patalchaya’

His works have also been translated widely into several Indian languages including Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, Assamese and Malayalam, as well as into some foreign languages
.
He also been awarded Sahitya Akademi Award, Saraswati Samman, Narsingh Das Puraskar and Rabindra Puraskar among others
.

List Of Jyanpith Award Winners:



Year : Name – Works (Language)



1965 : G. Sankara Kurup – Odakkuzhal [Flute] (Malayalam)

1966 : Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya – Ganadevta (Bengali)

1967 : Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa (Kuvempu) – Sri Ramayana Darshanam (Kannada)

1967 : Umashankar Joshi – Nishitha (Gujarati)

1968 : Sumitranandan Pant – Chidambara (Hindi)

1969 : Firaq Gorakhpuri – Gul-e-Naghma (Urdu)

1970 : Viswanatha Satyanarayana – Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu [A resourceful tree:Ramayana] (Telugu)

1971 : Bishnu Dey Smriti – Satta Bhavishyat (Bengali)

1972 : Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' – Urvashi (Hindi)

1973 : Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre – Nakutanti [Naku Thanthi (Four Strings)] (Kannada)

1973 : Gopinath Mohanty – Paraja (Oriya)

1974 : Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar – Yayati (Marathi)

1975 : P. V. Akilan – Chitttrappavai (Tamil)

1976 : Ashapurna Devi – Pratham Pratisruti (Bengali)

1977 : K. Shivaram Karanth – Mookajjiya Kanasugalu [Mookajjis dreams] (Kannada)

1978 : Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Ajneya' – Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar [How many times in many boats?] (Hindi)

1979 : Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya – Mrityunjay [Immortal] (Assamese)

1980 : S. K. Pottekkatt – Oru Desathinte Katha [Story of a land] (Malayalam)

1981 : Amrita Pritam – Kagaj te Canvas (Punjabi)

1982 : Mahadevi Varma – Yama (Hindi)

1983 : Maasti Venkatesh Ayengar – Chikkaveera Rajendra [Life and struggle of Kodava King Chikkaveera Rajendra] (Kannada)

1984 : Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai – Kayar [Coir] (Malayalam)

1985 : Pannalal Patel – Maanavi Ni Bhavaai (Gujarati)

1986 : Sachidananda Rout Roy (Oriya)

1987 : Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj) – Natsamrat (Marathi)

1988 : Dr.C. Narayana Reddy – Vishwambhara (Telugu)

1989 : Qurratulain Hyder – Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar (Urdu)

1990 : V. K. Gokak (Vinayaka Krishna Gokak) – Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi (Kannada)

1991 : Subhas Mukhopadhyay – Padati (Bengali)

1992 : Naresh Mehta (Hindi)

1993 : Sitakant Mahapatra – "for outstanding contribution to the enrichment of Indian literature,1973-92" (Oriya)

1994 : U. R. Ananthamurthy – for his contributions to (Kannada) literature (Kannada)

1995 : M. T. Vasudevan Nair – Randamoozham [Second Chance] (Malayalam)

1996 : Mahasweta Devi – Hajar Churashir Ma (Bengali)

1997 : Ali Sardar Jafri (Urdu)

1998 : Girish Karnad – "for his contributions to (Kannada) literature and for contributions to (Kannada) theater (yayati)" (Kannada)

1999 : Nirmal Verma (Hindi)

1999 : Gurdial Singh (Punjabi)

2000 : Indira Goswami (Assamese)

2001 : Rajendra Keshavlal Shah (Gujarati)

2002 : D. Jayakanthan (Tamil)

2003 : Vinda Karandikar – Ashtadarshana (poetry) (Marathi)

2004 : Rahman Rahi – Subhuk Soda, Kalami Rahi and Siyah Rode Jaren Manz (Kashmiri)

2005 : Kunwar Narayan (Hindi)

2006 : Ravindra Kelekar (Konkani)

2006 : Satya Vrat Shastri (Sanskrit)

2007 : O. N. V. Kurup (Malayalam)

2008 : Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar' (Urdu)

2009 : Amar Kant (Hindi)

2009 : Shrilal Shukla (Hindi
)
2010 : Chandrashekhara Kambara – for his contributions to Kannada literature (Kannada)

2011 : Pratibha Ray – Yajnaseni (Oriya)

2012 : Ravuri Bharadhwaja – Paakudurallu (Telugu)

2013 : Kedarnath Singh – Akaal Mein Saras (Hindi)

2014 : Bhalchandra Nemade – Hindu: Jagnyachi Samrudhha Adgal (Marathi)

2015 : Raghuveer Chaudhari – For his contributions to Gujarati literature (Gujarati)

2016 : Shankha Ghosh – (Bengali)

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Wi-Fi Hotspot-Reliance JioFi

Image
Personal WiFi hotspot:             The least focused device once the Reliance Jio commercially launched is  Reliance JioFi  personal WiFi hotspot. Most of the people who are trying to grab a Reliance Jio SIM for their smartphones forget that there is a dedicated WiFi hotspot device available with Reliance Jio. Reliance JioFi: You might be already familiar with the Wi-Fi Dongle offered by Airtel, Vodafone, Idea and MTS. Reliance Jio JioFi is also a similar device which acts as a personal hotspot with 4G internet connectivity. Reliance JioFi not only provides the 4G internet connection, but it also offers us to make phone calls by using Jio Join application installed on our smartphone. Reliance JioFi is not locked with only Reliance Jio SIM, if you want to use other SIM cards like Airtel you can insert them on the device. Once the device is up, it creates a WiFi network, and you can connect...
Read more
Image
PRO KABADDI 2019 Bengal Warriors on Saturday 19th October, 2019 clinched their maiden Pro Kabaddi League title by defeating Dabang Delhi 39-34 at the EKA Arena by TransStadia 136 matches, 91 days! This was a long season for both the players and everyone out there who was a part of the league. Winner cash award- 3,00,00,000 (Rs 3 cr) to Bengal Warriars Runners-up cash award- 1,80,00,000 ( Rs 1 cr 80 lakh) to Dabang Delhi Referee of the season- Mr. Shankar New Young player of the season- Sumit of UP Yoddha. 77 tackle points Raider of the season- Pawan Sehrawat of Bengaluru Bulls. 346 raid points Defender of the season- Fazel Atrachali of U Mumba. 82 tackle points Most Valuable Player of the season (MVP)- Naveen Kumar of Dabang Delhi. 21 consecutive Super-10s, 22 in total and 301 raid points BENGAL WARRIORS ARE THE CHAMPIONS OF PRO KABADDI LEAGUE SEASON SEVEN! for more details https://www.prokabaddi.com/ source: from internet
Read more

Printers and Types

Image
"A printer is an external output device that takes data from a computer and generates output in the form of graphics / text on a paper". There are two types of printers. 1) Impact Printers 2) Non-Impact Printers Impact printers An impact printer makes contact with the paper. It usually forms the print image by pressing an inked ribbon against the paper using a hammer or pins. Following are some examples of impact printers. 1) Dot-Matrix Printers The dot-matrix printer uses print heads containing from 9 to 24 pins. These pins produce patterns of  dots  on the paper to form the individual characters. The 24 pin dot-matrix printer produces more dots that a 9 pin dot-matrix printer, which results in much better quality and clearer characters. The general rule is: the more pins, the clearer the letters on the paper. The pins strike the ribbon individually as the print mechanism moves across the entire print line in both directions, i-e, from left to righ...
Read more