X-Nico

unusual facts about Sahitya



Bamna

It is well known as the village of great poet and gem of Gujarat Umashankar Joshi, a Gujarati literate, once a President of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad.

Charles Phillip Brown

He also collected poems of Sumathi Satakam and Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Academy published it in 1973 acknowledging him.

Iyothee Thass

However, Iyothee Thass was largely forgotten until recent times when the Dalit Sahitya Academy, a publishing house owned by Dalit Ezhilmalai published his writings.

Kartar Singh Duggal

Duggal had been a member of many literary and cultural centres including being the President of Punjabi Sahitya Sabha (Punjabi Literary Society), Delhi.

Panchakshari Hiremath

2005, Dr.Hiremath won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award for translating Qurratulain Hyder Urdu short stories Patjhar Ki Awaz to Kannada.

Pothuval

Neralattu Rama Poduval - ( Sopanam artist, recipient of Kendra Sahitya Academy award)

Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University

For this purpose, the state government has merged the Sahitya, Sangeeta, Nataka, Nritya and Lalita Kala Academies, International Telugu Institute and Telugu Bhasha Samiti into the University.

Purandara Dasa

Young and well known artists such as Puttur Narasimha Nayak, Pandit Venkatesh Kumar, Nagaraja Rao Havaldar, Ganapathi Bhatt, Vidyabhushana, flautists Prapanchand performing Purandara Dasa's compositions and other dasa sahitya songs in Carnatic as well as Hindustani music concerts.

Siddharth Katragadda

He is the grandson of Sahitya Academy Award winning Telugu writer, Tripuraneni Gopichand, and great-grandson of revolutionary poet/reformer, Tripuraneni Ramaswamy, both of whose postage stamps were released by the Indian Government for their contribution to Telugu Literature.

Tukaram

Dilip Chitre (18 September 1938 - 10 December 2009) has translated writings of Sant Tukaram into English in the book titled Says Tuka for which he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi award in 1994.


see also