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Sahitya Akademi Award To Urdu Writers
Sahitya Akademi Award is an annual literary honour, given since 1955, by Sahitya Akademi (India's National Academy of Letters), to writers and their works, for their outstanding contribution to the upliftment of Indian literature. Urdu is one of 24 languages in which the award is given.Urdu Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955-2007 Sahitya Akademi Official website. Recipients References {{Sahitya * |
Sahitya Akademi
The Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India. Founded on 12 March 1954, it is supported by, though independent of, the Indian government. Its office is located in Rabindra Bhavan near Mandi House in Delhi. The Sahitya Akademi organises national and regional workshops and seminars; provides research and travel grants to authors; publishes books and journals, including the ''Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature''; and presents the annual Sahitya Akademi Award of INR. 100,000 in each of the 24 languages it supports, as well as the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship for lifetime achievement. The Sahitya Akademi Library is one of the largest multi-lingual libraries in India, with a rich collection of books on literature and allied subjects. It publishes two bimonthly literary journals: '' Indian Literature'' in English and ''Samkaleen Bharatiya Sahitya'' in Hindi. Languages The Sahitya Akad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ale Ahmed Suroor
Ale Ahmad Suroor (1911-2002) was an Urdu poet, critic and professor from India. He is best known for his literary criticism. In 1974 he was honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Award by the Government of India for his literary critic work, ''Nazar aur Nazariya''. In 1991 he was also awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award. He was awarded a special gold medal by the President of Pakistan on the centenary of the birth of Muhammad Iqbal. Early life Suroor was born in the Badaun city of Uttar Pradesh on 9 September 1911. He studied Science and graduated from St John's College, Agra. He completed his master's degree in English literature in 1934. From 1958 to 1974 he worked as professor and Head of Urdu at Aligarh Muslim University.http://www.urdustudies.com/pdf/18/59SuroorMemoriam.pdf Philosophy Suroor's autobiography, ''Khwab Baki Hai'' (Dream Still Remain), states, "Criticism takes the help of science but it is not a science; it is a branch of literature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surendra Prakash
Surendra is an Indian masculine given name. Notable people with this name include: * Surendra (actor/singer) * Surendra Bhave * Surendra Chaturvedi * Surendra Dubey * Surendra Gambhir * Surendra Hiranandani * Surendra Jain * Surendra Jha 'Suman' * Surendra Kumar Datta * Surendra Kumar Sinha * Surendra Lal * Surendra Lath * Surendra Mishra * Surendra Mohanty * Surendra Motilal Patel * Surendra Nath Mitra * Surendra Nath * Surendra of Nepal * Surendra Pal * Surendra Pandey * Surendra Poonia * Surendra Prakash Goyal * Surendra Ramachandran * Surendra Sai * Surendra Seeraj * Surendra Sheodas Barlingay * Surendra Singh (other), several people * Surendra Verma (science writer) * Surendra Verma See also * Surendra Institute of Engineering & Management Surendra Institute of Engineering & Management is a Graduate Engineering and Management College established in the year 2009 in Siliguri, West Bengal, India, under the aegis of a charitable society Bidya Bharati Found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah (5 December 1905 – 8 September 1982) was an Indian politician who played a central role in the politics of Jammu and Kashmir Abdullah was the founding leader of the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference (later renamed Jammu and Kashmir National Conference) and the 1st elected Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir after its accession to India. He agitated against the rule of the Maharaja Hari Singh and urged self-rule for Kashmir. He served as the 1st elected Prime Minister of the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir and was later jailed and exiled. He was dismissed from the position of Prime Ministership on 8 August 1953 and Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad was appointed as the new Prime Minister. The expressions 'Sadr-i-Riyasat' and 'Prime Minister' were replaced with the terms 'Governor' and 'Chief Minister' in 1965. Sheikh Abdullah again became the Chief Minister of the state following the 1974 Indira-Sheikh accord and remained in the top slot till his death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akhlaq Mohammed Khan
Akhlaq Mohammad Khan (16 June 1936 – 13 February 2012), better known by his ''takhallus'' Shahryar'','' was an Indian academician, and a doyen of Urdu poetry in India. As a Bollywood, Hindi film lyricist, he is best known for his lyrics in ''Gaman'' (1978) and '' Umrao Jaan (1981 film), Umrao Jaan'' (1981) directed by Muzaffar Ali. He retired as the head of the Urdu Department at the Aligarh Muslim University, and thereafter he remained sought after name in ''mushairas'' or poetic gatherings, and also co-edited the literary magazine ''Sher-o-Hikmat''. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu for ''Khwab Ka Dar Band Hai'' (1987), and in 2008 he won the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary award and only the fourth Urdu poet to win the award. He has been widely acknowledged as the finest exponent of modern Urdu poetry. Early life and education Shahryar was born at Aonla, Uttar Pradesh, Aonla, Bareilly to a Muslim Rajput family. His father Abu Mohammad Khan was posted as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (30 September 1935 – 25 December 2020) was an Indian Urdu language poet, author, critic and theorist. He is known for ushering modernism to Urdu literature. He formulated fresh models of literary appreciation that combined western principles of literary criticism and subsequently applied them to Urdu literature after adapting them to address literary aesthetics native to Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. Some of his notable works included ''Sher-e-Shor Angez'' (1996), ''Ka’i Chand The Sar-e Asman'' (2006), ''The Mirror of Beauty'' (2013), and ''The Sun that Rose from the Earth'' (2014). He was also the editor and publisher of the Urdu literary magazine ''Shabkhoon.'' Faruqi received the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honor in 2009. He was also a recipient of the Saraswati Samman, an Indian literary award, for his work ''Sher-e-Shor Angez'' in 1996, and the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1986 for ''Tanqidi Afqar.'' Early life and education Faruqi was b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balraj Komal
Balraj Komal (1928-2013) was an Indian poet and writer of Urdu literature. The Government of India honored Komal in 2011, with the fourth highest civilian award of Padma Shri. Biography Balraj Komal, born in 1928, was a freelance writer post his retirement from the Delhi Administration as an Education officer. He was a former member of Delhi Urdu Akademi and the advisory board of Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. He has credited with several publications composed of poems, short stories and critical studies and ''Meri Nazmen'', ''Parindon Bhara Aasman'', ''Rishta-e-Dil'', ''Agala Waraq'', ''Ankhen Aur Paon'', and ''Adab ki Talas'' are some hid known works. A recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1985, Balraj Komal has also won ''Uttar Pradesh Urdu Academy'' Award twice(1971 and 1982) and has also received the Senior Fellowship from the Government of India. In 2011, the Government of India The Government of India (ISO: ; often abbreviated as GoI), known as the Union Governm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masud Husain Khan
Masud Husain Khan (28 January 1919 – 16 October 2010) was an Indian linguist, the first Professor Emeritus in Social Sciences at Aligarh Muslim University and the fifth Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, a Central University in New Delhi. On 16 October 2010 Masud Husain Khan died in Aligarh from Parkinson's disease. Family Masud Husain Khan was born in Qaimganj district Farrukhabad, into a Pashtun family of the Afridi and Kheshgi tribe of Uttar Pradesh. His family is sometimes referred to as the ''Family of Vice-Chancellors'', having provided Vice-Chancellors to four different universities across the Indian subcontinent. Masud Husain's father Muzaffar Husain Khan (1893–1921) completed his education from Islamia High School Etawah and Mohammadan Anglo Oriental (M.A.O.) College, Aligarh. He started his judicial career in Hyderabad but died of tuberculosis at the early age of twenty-eight. Masud Husain was just two years old when he lost his father. Muzaffar Husain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malik Ram
Malik Ram was the pen name of Malik Ram Baveja (1906–1993), a renowned Urdu, Persian and Arabic scholar from India. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983 for his monumental work ''Tazkirah-e-Muasireen''. An internationally acclaimed authority on Mirza Ghalib, the Urdu and Persian poet, Malik Ram was also one of the leading Urdu writers and critics of his time. He published about eighty works in his lifetime, including those he had edited. His works are in Urdu, Persian, Arabic and English, but predominantly in Urdu, and cover literary, religious and historical subjects. In addition, he wrote well over 200 erudite articles and essays in Urdu for literary journals in India and Pakistan. Biography Malik Ram was born on 22 December 1906 in Phalia. After his schooling in Wazirabad, he was educated at Government College, Lahore. Between 1931 and 1937 he worked as a journalist. At first he was the joint-editor of the Lahore monthly literary journal ''Nairang-i-Khayal.'' a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyan Chand Jain
Gyan Chand Jain (1923-2007) was an Indian writer and scholar of Urdu literature. Born in 1923 at Seohara of Bijnore district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Jain was known for his scholarship on Ghalib literature. He authored several books including ''Aik Bhasha: Do Likhawat, Do Adab'' and ''Urdu Ki Nasri Dastanain'', the latter considered by many as his masterpiece. Jain received the Sahitya Akademi Award for Urdu in 1982. He was honored by the Government of India, in 2002, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri He died, aged 85, in August 2007 at Porterville, California. See also * Urdu literature Urdu literature ( ur, , ) is literature in the Urdu language. While it tends to be dominated by poetry, especially the verse forms of the ''ghazal '' غزل and ''nazm '' نظم, it has expanded into other styles of writing, including that of t ... References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jain, Gyan Chand Recipients of the Padma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asloob Ahmad Ansari
Asloob Ahmad Ansari (1925 1 May 2016) was an Indian writer, critic, former professor of English department of Aligarh Muslim University and editor of ''Naqd-o-Nazar'', Urdu magazine. He wrote in English and Urdu throughout his literary career. His work revolves around study of English and Urdu and research on Muhammad Iqbal, Ghalib and Sir Syed Ahmad Khan. He also wrote about William Blake and William Shakespeare. Biography He was born in Delhi in 1925. He obtained his education from the University of Oxford and later started teaching Urdu and English at AMU and until he retired in 1985. His books such as ''Arrows of Intellect'', ''William Blake’s Minor Prophecies'', and ''Atraf-i Rashid Ahmad Siddiqui'' were published from Canada and the US in 1978 and 99 respectively. He was awarded Sahitya Akademi Award in 1980 for his literary criticism titled ''Iqbal Ki Terah Nazmen'', the Pride of Performance and Ghalib Award and Mir Taqi Mir award in recognition of his contribution t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulam Rabbani Taban
Gulam Rabbani was an Indian lawyer and poet of Urdu literature who wrote under the nom de plume 'Taban'. He wrote several poems in Urdu, especially ghazals, and was known for his works, ''Zauq-i safar'', ''Nava-e-avara'', ''Poetics to politics'' and ''Saz-i larzan''. He received the Sahitya Akademi award in 1979 for his work, ''Nava-e-avara''. He was honoured by the Government of India in 1971 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award. Biography Gulam Rabbani was born at Kaimganj, a small hamlet in Farrukhabad district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on 15 February 1914 in a rich family of Zamindars. He did his early schooling at the local village school and passed the intermediate examination from Aligarh. He graduated from St. John's College, Agra where he mixed with students most of whom were attracted to leftist ideology and took a degree in law. Rabbani started writing during the college days under the pseudonym, ''Farchat'' but later, changed it to ''Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
