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Jnanpith Award

  • Poet and filmmaker Gulzar, and Sanskrit scholar Rambhadracharya win 2023 Jnanpith Award

    Poet and filmmaker Gulzar, and Sanskrit scholar Rambhadracharya win 2023 Jnanpith Award

    Scroll Staff
    · Feb 20, 2024 · 10:36 am
  • Assamese poet Nilmani Phookan, Goan novelist Damodar Mauzo win Jnanpith Award

    Assamese poet Nilmani Phookan, Goan novelist Damodar Mauzo win Jnanpith Award

    Scroll Staff
    · Dec 07, 2021 · 06:28 pm
  • Noted Malayalam poet Akkitham wins Jnanpith Award 2019

    Noted Malayalam poet Akkitham wins Jnanpith Award 2019

    Scroll Staff
    · Nov 29, 2019 · 03:45 pm
  • Jnanpith winner Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Shadow Lines’ showed how to take the vernacular into English

    Jnanpith winner Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Shadow Lines’ showed how to take the vernacular into English

    Saikat Majumdar
    · Dec 21, 2018 · 08:30 am
  • Novelist Amitav Ghosh wins Jnanpith Award 2018

    Novelist Amitav Ghosh wins Jnanpith Award 2018

    Scroll Staff
    · Dec 14, 2018 · 04:43 pm
  • Google pays tribute to Hindi poet Mahadevi Varma with doodle

    Google pays tribute to Hindi poet Mahadevi Varma with doodle

    Scroll Staff
    · Apr 27, 2018 · 08:51 am
  • Krishna Sobti wins Jnanpith Award for her contribution to Hindi literature

    Krishna Sobti wins Jnanpith Award for her contribution to Hindi literature

    Scroll Staff
    · Nov 03, 2017 · 05:52 pm
  • Eminent Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh selected for Jnanpith Award 2016

    Eminent Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh selected for Jnanpith Award 2016

    Scroll Staff
    · Dec 23, 2016 · 09:45 pm