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Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize For Meitei
Sahitya Akademi Translation Prizes are given each year to writers for their outstanding translations work in the 24 languages, including Meitei language (officially known as Manipuri language), since 1989. Recipients Following is the list of recipients of Sahitya Akademi translation prizes for their works written in Manipuri. The award, as of 2019, consisted of 50,000. See also * List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Meitei * List of Yuva Puraskar winners for Meitei * List of epics in Meitei language * Meitei literature * Meitei Language Day Manipuri Language Day (; /ma-nee-poo-ree lon-gee noo-meet/), is an annual celebration of the Manipuri (Meitei) language in India and Bangladesh on 20 August. It is the day in 1992 on which Manipuri was added to the Eighth Schedule to the Cons ... References External links Akademi Translation Prizes For Manipuri Language {{DEFAULTSORT:Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize winners for Meitei Literary awards by language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize
Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize or Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation is a literary honour in India, presented by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, given to "outstanding translations of creative and critical works" in 24 major Languages of India, Indian languages such as English, Rajasthani and the List of languages by number of native speakers in India, 22 listed languages in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India, Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution recognised by the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. The award, established in 1989, comprises a plaque and a cash prize of ₹ 50,000. Krishnamohan was the youngest translator to win the prize aged 32 in Hindi Language, Hindi and Kalachand Shastri is the oldest to win the prize aged 89 in Meitei language, Manipuri. Background Awards for translations were instituted in 1989 at the instance of then-Prime Minister of India, P. V. Narasimha Rao. The initial proposal for translation prizes contained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irawati Karve
Irawati Karve (15 December 1905 – 11 August 1970) was an Indian sociologist, anthropologist, educationist and writer from Maharashtra, India. She was one of the students of G.S. Ghurye, the founder of sociology in India. She has been regarded as the first female Indian sociologist. Early life and education Irawati Karve was born on 15 December 1905 to a wealthy Chitpavan Brahmin family and was named after the Irrawaddy River in Burma where her father, Ganesh Hari Karmarkar, was working for the Burma Cotton Company. She attended the girls boarding school Huzurpaga in Pune from the age of seven and then studied philosophy at Fergusson College, from which she graduated in 1926. She then obtained a Dakshina Fellowship to study sociology under G. S. Ghurye at Bombay University, obtaining a master's degree in 1928 with a thesis on the subject of her own caste titled ''The Chitpavan Brahmans — An Ethnic Study''. Karve married Dinkar Dhondo Karve, who taught chemi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wings Of Fire (autobiography)
''Wings of Fire'' ( 1999), is the autobiography of the ''Missile Man of India'' and the former President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. It was written by him and Arun Tiwari. In the autobiography, Kalam examines his early life, effort, hardship, fortitude, luck and chance that eventually led him to lead Indian space research, nuclear and missile programs. Kalam started his career, after graduating from Aerospace engineering at Madras Institute of Technology, at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and was assigned to build a hovercraft prototype. Later he moved to ISRO and helped establish the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre and pioneered the first space launch-vehicle program. During the 1990s and early 2000, Kalam moved to the DRDO to lead the Indian nuclear weapons program, with particular successes in thermonuclear weapons development culminating in the operation Smiling Buddha and an ICBM Agni. Translations The autobiography first published in English, has so far been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018) was an Indian poet, writer and statesman who served as the prime minister of India, first for a term of 13 days in 1996, then for a period of 13 months from 1998 to 1999, followed by a full term from 1999 to 2004. He was the first non-Congress prime minister to serve a full term in the office. Vajpayee was one of the co-founders and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a far-right Hindu nationalist paramilitary volunteer organisation. He was also a Hindi poet and a writer. He was a member of the Indian Parliament for over five decades, having been elected ten times to the Lok Sabha, the lower house, and twice to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house. He served as the Member of Parliament from Lucknow, Gwalior, New Delhi and Balrampur constituencies, before retiring from active politics in 2009 due to health concerns. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khushwant Singh
Khushwant Singh FKC (born Khushal Singh, 2 February 1915 – 20 March 2014) was an Indian author, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician. His experience in the 1947 Partition of India inspired him to write '' Train to Pakistan'' in 1956 (made into film in 1998), which became his most well-known novel. Born in Punjab, Khushwant Singh was educated in Modern School, New Delhi, St. Stephen's College, and graduated from Government College, Lahore. He studied at King's College London and was awarded an LL.B. from University of London. He was called to the bar at the London Inner Temple. After working as a lawyer in Lahore High Court for eight years, he joined the Indian Foreign Service upon the Independence of India from British Empire in 1947. He was appointed journalist in the All India Radio in 1951, and then moved to the Department of Mass Communications of UNESCO at Paris in 1956. These last two careers encouraged him to pursue a literary career. As a writer, he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Train To Pakistan
''Train to Pakistan'' is a historical novel by writer Khushwant Singh, published in 1956. It recounts the Partition of India in August 1947 through the perspective of Mano Majra, a fictional border village. Instead of depicting the Partition in terms of only the political events surrounding it, Khushwant Singh digs into a deep local focus, providing a human dimension which brings to the event a sense of reality, horror, and believability. Plot Mano Majra, the fictional village on the border of Pakistan and India in which the story takes place, is predominantly Muslim and Sikh. The town is next to a railroad station that is frequently visited by trains on a certain schedule. Jaggat Singh, a local badmash (or hooligan), has an affair with the daughter of the local Imam - Nooran. One day in Mano Majra, a group of robbers enter Hindu moneylender Lala Ram Lal's home and murder him while stealing his belongings. The criminals, who were previously acquainted with Jaggat, throw a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamleshwar (writer)
Kamleshwar Prasad Saxena (6 January 1932 – 27 January 2007), known mononymously as Kamleshwar, was a 20th-century Indian writer who wrote in Hindi. He also worked as a screenwriter for Indian films and television industry. Among his most well-known works are the films ''Aandhi'', '' Mausam'', '' Chhoti Si Baat'' and '' Rang Birangi''. He was awarded the 2003 Sahitya Akademi Award for his Hindi novel '' Kitne Pakistan'' (translated in English as ''Partitions''), and the Padma Bhushan in 2005. He is considered a part of the league of Hindi writers like Mohan Rakesh, Nirmal Verma, Rajendra Yadav and Bhisham Sahni, who left the old pre-independence literary preoccupations and presented the new sensibilities that reflected new moorings of a post-independence India, thus launching the Hindi literature's ''Nayi Kahani'' ("New Story") movement in the 1950s. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruskin Bond
Ruskin Bond (born 19 May 1934) is an Indian author. His first novel, ''The Room on the Roof'', published in 1956, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Bond has authored more than 500 short stories, essays, and novels which includes 69 books for children. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for ''Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra''. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014. Life Bond was born on 19 May 1934 in Kasauli, Punjab States Agency, British India. His father, Aubrey Alexander Bond, who was British, was born in a military camp in Shahjahanpur, a small town in north India. His mother, Edith Clarke, was Anglo-Indian. His father taught English to the princesses of Nawanagar State, Jamnagar palachise, and Bond and his sister Eldlen lived there till he was six. Later, his father joined the Royal Air Force in 1939 and Bond, along with his mother and sister, went to live at his maternal home at Dehradun. Shortly after that, he was sent to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Flight Of Pigeons
''A Flight of Pigeons'' is a novella by Indian author Ruskin Bond. The story is set in 1857, and is about Ruth Labadoor and her family (who are British) who take help of Hindus and Muslims to reach their relatives when the family's patriarch is killed in a church by the Indian rebels. The novella is an adaptation of the novel ''Mariam: A Story of the Indian Mutiny'' (1896) by J. F. Fanthome and is a mix of fiction and non fiction and was adapted into a film in 1978 called '' Junoon'' by Shyam Benegal, starring Shashi Kapoor, his wife Jennifer Kendal, and Nafisa Ali. Summary The novel starts with the death of the father of Ruth Labadoor in front of her eyes in a church. This murder is committed by the Indian rebellion of 1857 and who have decided to kill all the Britishers of the small town of Shahjahanpur Shahjahanpur () is a municipal corporation, town and district headquarters of Shahjahanpur District in Western Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located between Bareilly and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sisir Kumar Bose
Sisir Kumar Bose (2 February 1920 – 30 September 2000) was an Indian freedom fighter, pediatrician and legislator. He was the son of Indian nationalist leader Sarat Chandra Bose, nephew of Indian freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose and husband of former Member of Parliament Krishna Bose (1930–2020). Early life and education He was born in Calcutta on 2 February 1920 to barrister and Indian nationalist leader Sarat Chandra Bose and Bivabati Bose (née Dey). He was educated at Calcutta Medical College. Role in Indian independence movement In 1941, while a medical student in Calcutta, he helped his uncle, the Indian freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose escape from house arrest. He helped Subhas Bose plan his escape from his ancestral house on Elgin Road in Calcutta and drove him out of the house in secret up to Gomoh in the neighbouring state of Bihar, from where Subhas took a train to Peshawar. During the Quit India Movement in India launched by Mahatma Gandhi in 1942, Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guide
''The Guide'' is a 1958 novel written in English by the Indian author R. K. Narayan. Like most of his works, the events of this novel take place in Malgudi, a fictional town in South India. The novel describes the transformation of the protagonist, Raju, from a tour guide to a spiritual guide and then one of the greatest holy men of India. This novel earned Narayan the first 1960 Sahitya Akademi Award for English, by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters. In 2022, it was included on the "Big Jubilee Read" list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors selected to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. Plot summary The protagonist, Raju, who is nicknamed "Railway Raju", is characterized as being a corrupt and popular tour guide. In the story, he falls in love with a beautiful woman named Rosie, who is married to an archaeologist named Marco, while the couple is visiting Malgudi as tourists. Marco disapproves of Rosie's passion for dancing but Raju enco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Thakur (; anglicised as Rabindranath Tagore ; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengalis, Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance. He reshaped Bengali literature and Music of Bengal, music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of ''Gitanjali.'' In 1913, Tagore became the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist to win the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; where his elegant prose and magical poetry were widely popular in the Indian subcontinent. He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Asiatic Society. Referred to as "the Bard of Bengal", Tagore was known by the sobri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
