jnanpith laureate

jnanpith laureate Chandrashekar Kambar has reiterated his statement, urging the government to have Kannada as the medium of instruction at primary and high school levels.

HYDERABAD: The three-day All-India Telugu Women Writers' Conference at the Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University was inaugurated on Friday by jnanpith laureate and renowned Assamese writer Indira Goswami.

Poet laureate of Malayalam and Jnanpith award winner Akkitham Achuthan Namboothir (94) passed away at a private hospital in Thrissur on Thursday.

BANGALORE: Starting Sunday, as you enter Ravindra Kalakshetra, poet laureate Kuvempu's gentle countenance might hold your attention, or the erudite Karnad might beckon, maybe a bespectacled DaRa Bendre.

The 92-year-old jnanpith laureate was ailing for a month. There will be no funeral as Karandikar wanted his body to be donated to a hospital.

jnanpith laureate playwright Girish Karnad has said that he was doing films for money, and that he has now retired from that field.

Eminent Malayalam poet Akkitham has been chosen for the 55th Jnanpith Award, the Jnanpith Selection Board announced on Friday.

The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday disposed of a PIL filed by three jnanpith laureates and an eminent poet against the government’s decision to close down or merge 3,174 primary schools.

At a time when the department of public instruction is all set to welcome students by offering sweets, the day of re-opening, a school here came out with a wonderful idea to make its students cherish their first day of the academic year.

Eminent Malayalam poet Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri - popularly known as Akkitham - has been chosen for the 55th Jnanpith Award, the Jnanpith Selection Board announced on Friday. "I am happy to get this highest honour though many other better writers of the yesteryear missed it. Maybe I lived more years than them," the poet said.

Noted English writer Amitav Ghosh has been honoured with this year's Jnanpith Award, a literary award given to an author for "outstanding contribution towards literature". "In his novels, Ghosh treads through historical settings to the modern era and weaves a space where the past connects with the present in relevant ways," a statement from Bharatiya Jnanpith read.

Poetry is not what it is without its pregnant pauses and intonation. Delegates had the opportunity of realizing this again at the Bangalore Literature Festival, when four great Kannada poets recited their best at the Mysore Park venue on Sunday.

Chief minister Siddaramaiah himself has invited jnanpith laureate Girish Karnad to inaugurate Dasara-2014, and the playwright has accepted the invite, said revenue minister Srinivas Prasad.

The procession sub-committee of World Kannada Meet (WKM) will take out a grand procession, a la Mysore Dasara, during WKM scheduled for the second week of March in Belgaum.

jnanpith laureate U R Ananthamurthy, who was admitted to Manipal Hospital for chest infection last week, is expected to be discharged.

jnanpith laureate U R Ananthamurthy on Thursday debunked opposition to the proposed Tipu University for minorities, calling the Mysore ruler a "great man".

City-based Dr Da Ra Bendre National Memorial Trust and Dr Gangubai Hangal Music Foundation (Hubli) will jointly oraganize a music and dance programme to mark 116th birth anniversary of jnanpith laureate Dr Da Ra Bendre at the open-air theatre atop Nrupatunga Betta in on Sunday.