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1966. Jainendra Kumar (2 January 1905 – 24 December 1988) was a 20th-century Indian writer who wrote in Hindi. He wrote novels include Sunita and Tyagapatra. He was awarded one of India's highest civilian honours, the Padma Bhushan in 1971. [1] He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award by the Sahitya Akademi in 1966, for his work Muktibodh ...
Ram Chandra Shukla (4 October 1884 – 2 February 1941), [ 1 ] better known as Acharya Shukla, was an Indian historian of Hindi literature. He is regarded as the first codifier of the history of Hindi literature in a scientific system by using wide, empirical research [ 2 ] with scant resources. As an author he is best known for Hindi Sahitya ...
1956 Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi for the prose commentary Padmavat Sanjivani Vyakhya. Vasudeva Sharan Agrawala, also Vasudeva Saran Agrawala, (1904–1966), was an Indian scholar of cultural history, Sanskrit and Hindi literature, numismatics, museology, and art history. [2] He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in the Hindi language in 1956 ...
Agyeya. Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan (7 March 1911 – 4 April 1987), popularly known by his pen name Agyeya (also transliterated Ajneya, meaning 'the unknowable'), was an Indian writer, poet, novelist, literary critic, journalist, translator and revolutionary in Hindi language. He pioneered modern trends in Hindi poetry, as well as in ...
Hindi Day (Hindi: हिन्दी दिवस, romanized: hindī divas) is celebrated in India to commemorate the date 14 September 1949 on which a compromise was reached—during the drafting of the Constitution of India —on the languages that were to have official status in the Republic of India. [1][2] The compromise, usually called ...
Krishna Sobti was the first woman winner of this award. Daya Prakash Sinha is the 2021 winner of this award. Year. Author. Work. Type of Work. Ref. 1955. Makhanlal Chaturvedi.
Usha's initial schooling was in Kheda and Bharuch and then in Chandaramji High School, Bombay. She was an average student. In 1935, her matriculation examinations placed her among the top 25 students in her class. She continued her education at Wilson College, Bombay, graduating in 1939 with a first-class degree in philosophy.
Godaan is regarded as an enduring Hindi-language cult-classic work by Premchand [7]. Like his other novels, Godaan too depicts the social struggles of the lower class. Godaan was made into a Hindi film in 1963, starring Raaj Kumar, Kamini Kaushal, Mehmood and Shashikala. In 2004, Godaan was part of the 27-episode TV series, Tehreer....