{"id":4636,"date":"2020-02-18T14:41:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T14:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=4636"},"modified":"2020-04-12T10:46:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T10:46:02","slug":"13-b-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=4636","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s First Recipient of the  &#8216; Jnanapith Award &#8216;.  1965 ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>G. Shankara Kurup<\/strong>&nbsp;was the first winner of the Jnanapith Award in 1965. He won the prize for his collection of poems in Malayalam&nbsp;<strong>&#8216;Odakkuzhal&#8217;<\/strong>&nbsp;(The Bamboo flute, 1950).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born June 03rd, 1901 in Nayathode, Kingdom of Cochin (now in Ernakulam district, Kerala). Shankara Kurup is better known as Mahakavi G (The great poet).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Jnanapith Award is a literary award in India. Alongwith the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship it is one of the 2 most prestigious literary honours in the country. The Jnanapith award was instituted in 1961.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The name of the award is taken from the Sanskrit words &#8216;jnana&#8217; and &#8216;pitha&#8217; (knowledge-seat). It carries a cheque for Rupees 11 lakhs, a citation plaque and a bronze replica of Saraswati, the Indian Goddess of knowledge, music and the arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G. Shankara Kurup&nbsp;was the first winner of the Jnanapith Award in 1965. He won the prize for his collection of poems in Malayalam&nbsp;&#8216;Odakkuzhal&#8217;&nbsp;(The Bamboo flute, 1950). Born June 03rd, 1901 in Nayathode, Kingdom of Cochin (now in Ernakulam district, Kerala). Shankara Kurup is better known as Mahakavi G (The great poet). The Jnanapith Award is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=4636\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India&#8217;s First Recipient of the  &#8216; Jnanapith Award &#8216;.  1965 .<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4636"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5235,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions\/5235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}