{"id":15598,"date":"2016-12-26T13:29:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T13:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogbox.indianeagle.com\/?p=15598"},"modified":"2016-12-26T14:57:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T14:57:48","slug":"indian-bengali-poet-shankha-ghosh-wins-jnanpith-award-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/indian-bengali-poet-shankha-ghosh-wins-jnanpith-award-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Poet Shankha Ghosh, a Leading Authority on Rabindranath Tagore, Wins Jnanpith Award 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
Celebrated Indian Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh has been selected for the Jnanpith Award for 2016.<\/strong> Chaired by Namwar Singh, a noted writer, scholar and critic, the Jnanpith Selection Board declared him as the 52nd<\/sup> Jnanpith Award winner. Notably, poet Shankha Ghosh is a leading authority on Rabindranath Tagore<\/a><\/span>. He lives in Kolkata<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n Now poet Shankha Ghosh joins the league of such legendary Indian litt\u00e9rateurs and Jnanpith Award winners<\/strong> as Mahasweta Devi, Ashapurna Devi, Bishnu Dey, Subhash mukhopadhyay, Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, Amrita Pritam, Girish Karnad, Pratibha Ray, Gopinath Mohanty, Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya and likes. Tarashankar Bandopadhyay was the first Bengali writer and second Indian litt\u00e9rateur to have received this award in 1966.<\/p>\n Instituted in 1961, the Jnanpith Award is one of the most prestigious literary honors in India. It is conferred only on Indian authors for their outstanding contribution to literature in any of the 22 Indian languages included in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n