Jnanpith Award & its Awardees

Jnanpith Award

 

The Jnanpith Award is a literary award in India. Along with the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, it is one of the two most prestigious literary honours in the country. The award was instituted in 1961. Any Indian citizen who writes in any of the official languages of India is eligible for the honour. It is presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith, a trust founded by the Sahu Jain family, the publishers of the The Times of India newspaper. 

 

The word “Jnanpith” has its origin in Sanskrit language where two words jnāna and pīṭha means knowledge-seat. 

 

It carries a cheque for 7 lakh, a citation plaque and a bronze replica of Saraswati, the Indian goddess of knowledge, music, and the arts.

Till 1982, this award was  given for a single work by a writer.   However,  since then,  the award has been given for a lifetime contribution to Indian literature.

 

Women Award Winning Writers :  Starting with the Bengali writer (1) Ashapoorna Devi in 1976, seven women writers have won the award so far.   The other recipients include  (2) Amrita Pritam (1981, Punjabi), (3)  Mahadevi Varma (1982, Hindi),  (4) Qurratulain Hyder (1989, Urdu),  (5) Mahasweta Devi (1996, Bengali),  (6) Indira Goswami (2000, Assamese) and (7)  Pratibha ray (2011, Odia).

Satya Vrat Shastri is the first Sanskrit poet to be conferred the award since its inception.

The award announcements have lately been lagging behind the award-years. 

 

(a)    The awards for the years 2005 and 2006 were announced on 22 November 2008.  

 

(b)   The awards for the 45th and 46th Jnanpith for the years 2009 and 2010 respectively, were announced on 20 September 2011.   

 

(c)    The 48th Jnanpith award for the year 2012 was announced on 17th April, 2013 and was conferred to Telugu novelist, short-story writer and poet Ravuri Bharadhwaja for his work Paakudu Raallu.

List of Jnanpith Awardees

 

 

 

S. No.	Name of the Author	Year of award	Language
1	G. Sankara Kurup	1965	Malayalam
2	T.S. Bandyopadhyaya	1966	Bangla
3	Uma Shankar Joshi	1967	Gujarati
4	K.V. Puttappa	1967	Kannada
5	Sumitranandan Pant	1968	Hindi
6	Firaq Gorakhpuri	1969	Urdu
7	V. Satyanarayana	1970	Telugu
8	Bishnu Dey	1971	Bangla
9	Ramdhari Singh `Dinkar'	1972	Hindi
10	D.R. Bendre	1973	Kannada,
11	Gopinath Mohanty	1973	Oriya
12	V.S. Khandekar	1974	Marathi
13	P.V. Akilandam	1975	Tamil
14	Ashapurna Devi	1976	Bangla
15	K.S. Karanth	1977	Kannada
16	S.H.V. Ajneya	1978	Hindi
17	B.K. Bhattacharya	1979	Assamese
18	S.K. Pottekkatt	1980	Malayalam,
19	Amrita Pritam	1981	Punjabi
20	Mahadevi Varma	1982	Hindi
21	Masti V. Iyengar	1983	Kannada
22	Thakazhi S. Pillai	1984	Malayalam
23	Pannalal Patel	1985	Gujarati
24	Satchidanand Rautroy	1986	Oriya
25	V.V.S. 'Kusumagraj'	1987	Marathi
26	C. Narayana Reddy	1988	Telugu
27	Qurratulain Hyder	1989	Urdu
28	V.K. Gokak	1990	Kannada
29	Subhash Mukhopadhyaya	1991	Bangla
30	Naresh Mehta	1992	Hindi
31	Sitakant Mahapatra	1993	Oriya
32	U.R. Anantha Murthy	1994	Kannada
33	M.T. Vasudevan Nair	1995	Malayalam
34	Mahasveta Devi	1996	Bangla
35	Ali Sardar Jafri	1997	Urdu
36	Girish Karnad	1998	Kannada
37	Nirmal Verma	1999	Hindi
38	Gurdial Singh	1999	Punjabi
39	Indira Goswami	2000	Assamese
40	Rajendra Shah	2001	Gujarati
41	D. Jayakanthan	2002	Tamil
42	Vinda Karandikar	2003	Marathi
43	Rahman Rahi	2004	Kashmiri
44	Kunwar Narain	2005	Hindi
45	Satyavrat Shastri	2006	Sanskrit
46	Ravindra Kelekar	2006	Konkani
47	O. N. V. Kurup	2007	Malayalam
48	Akhlaq Khan Shahryar	2008	Urdu
49	Shrilal Shukla	2009	Hindi
50	Amarkant	2009	Hindi
51	Chandrasekhar Kambar	2010	Kannada
52	Pratibha Ray	2011	Oriya
53	Ravuri Bharadwaja	2012	Telegu

 

Current Affairs 31st August 2013

Ranveet Gill is the new CEO of Deutsche Bank India

Deutsche Bank has a new CEO for Indian operation.  Ranveet Gill is appointed as the new CEO and he will be replacing Gunit Chadha.  Gill is working as head of capital markets and treasury solutions now.  He is banking career since 26 years.

Petrol, Diesel Prices Increase

Petrol and diesel prices are increased in India again.  This is informed by Oil Marketing companies in India.  Petrol is now costlier by Rs. 2.35 and diesel will cost Rs.0.50 more.  Oil marketing companies informed that this is due to the depreciation of rupee. The new prices came into effect from the mid night of 31^st August.

Federal Bank Limited Launches FedBook, electronic passbook

Federal Bank Limited, the Kerala based bank launched an electronic version of the passbook dubbed as FedBook.  FebBook can be downloaded easily.  The customers can view the transactions of their account at any time online.  The application is user friendly and for now will be available for Android smartphones.

India’s GDP Dropped to 4 Year Low

Gross Domestic Product growth of India dropped to four year low.  It is only 4.4 percent in the first quarter.  Reserve Bank of India and the central government should take necessary action to stop this, say the experts.  Poor performance of the mining sector is said to the reason for the drop in GDP. Other sectors such as power generation, hotels and transport also performed poorly in this quarter.

Reserve Bank of India permits encashment of Premature Taxable Bonds by over 60 years investors

Investors who are aged more than 60 years can now encash their premature taxable bonds.  The bonds that have crossed the cross in period of three years from the date of taking the bond can benefit from this decision of RBI.

Mercedes Car Prices Hiked in India

The prices of Mercedes cars in India will be increased by 2.5% to 4.5%, informed Mercedes Benz India.  The new prices will come into implementation from 1^st September, 2013.  This is because of depreciation of rupee value, input cost increase and high import duty.

Science and Technology

Union government of India is running Science Express-Bio-diversity special’ train in various states. It will halt at Miraj station in Pune from 6^th to 9^th September, 2013.  People can visit the exhibition on train from 10 am to 5 pm.  It started its journey in April this year. By October it will cover 62 locations.  Next halt for the train is Nanded.

Maria Sharapova withdraws from US Open due to Injury

World third ranked tennis player Maria Sharapova pulls out of US Open Tennis Tourney.  She withdrew from the tournament due to should injury. Agnieszka Radwanska, the Poland player will play as third seed in the tournament.

BCCI committee to meet in Kolkatta.

BCCI committee meeting is going to be held on 1^st September in Kolkatta.  Sources informed that N Srinivasan may again take up charge as the president of BCCI.  Though majority members are opposing this, Srinivasan is making his plans to again act as the president of BCCI.  This is the final meeting before AGM.

India’s Rs 5000 crore air for Bhutan

India announced Rs. 5,000 crore aid forBhutan for its socio-economic development.  A meeting was held between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Bhutanese Prime Minister Tshering Todgay in New Delhi in which a decision was taken to this effect.  This will improve the bilateral relations between the two countries, it is said.

Guilty Minor in Nirbhaya Case gets three year jail Term

The minor boy who he guilty is found guilty in Nirbhaya rape case is given three year jail term by Juvenile Justice Board. The court also said that the period he spent in remand will also be included in the three year jail term.  As a result the accused will have to spend another two years and three months in jail.