sahitya akademi award news

Published on Mar 16, 2026 03:55 pm IST

Eminent Bengali author Moni Shankar Mukhopadhyay, 'Shankar', passes away at 92

Noted Bengali novelist Mani Shankar Mukhopadhyay. (Facebook)

kolkata news

Updated on Feb 20, 2026 04:39 pm IST

Rahul Gandhi presents Priyadarshini Award to literary icon M Leelavathy

“I see India safe in the hands of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi,” M Leelavathy said as she donated the Priyadarshini Award prize money to the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation.

Published on Jan 19, 2026 05:48 pm IST

Magic realist who fused poetry, prose, elevated the dull to the extraordinary

Vinod Kumar Shukla (PTI)

Published on Dec 24, 2025 11:50 am IST

Ludhiana: Former PAU scientist receives literary award from MP govt

Litterateur and international scientist Faqir Chand Shukla being honoured with Sahitya Akademi Award. (HT Photo)

Published on Sept 09, 2025 04:36 am IST

Eminent Bengali writer Prafulla Roy dies at 91, Mamata condoles death of Roy

Updated on Oct 06, 2025 11:33 pm IST

Bengal mourns death of poet Daud Haider

Updated on Oct 06, 2025 06:54 pm IST

Roundabout | The rite of passage to the write women

Sahitya Akademi Award winner Paul Kaur. (HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 29, 2024 07:36 am IST

Library and road to be named after Surjit Patar in Jalandhar

Panchayats, culture and industrial development minister Tarunpreet Singh Sond paying tribute to Surjit Patar in Ludhiana on Wednesday. (Manish/HT)

Updated on Nov 07, 2024 08:40 am IST

Celebrated poet and former intelligence officer Keki N Daruwalla dies at 87

Daruwalla’s last rites were carried out on Friday afternoon at the Parsi Aramgah in Delhi. (HT Photo)

Updated on Sept 28, 2024 07:56 am IST

Writer of readers, not of rulers: 100 years on, master of satire Harishankar Parsai lives on through his writings

Published on Aug 21, 2024 05:39 pm IST

Urdu poet Munwwar Rana passes away, lives on in verse

Munawwar Rana suffered infection in the lungs and throat in 2017 and was also receiving treatment regularly due to kidney problems for which he had to undergo dialysis. (FILE PHOTO)

lucknow news

Updated on Jan 15, 2024 07:46 am IST

Sangam city’s Neelum Saran Gour bags Sahitya Akademi award 2023

Neelum Saran Gour (File photo)

others

Published on Dec 21, 2023 10:11 pm IST

A farewell note to Jayanta Mahapatra

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An early photograph of poet Jayanta Mahapatra (Ketaki Foundation Trust)

Updated on Aug 28, 2023 06:11 pm IST

Review: Magadh by Shrikant Verma, translated by Rahul Soni

A view of the ruins of Nalanda in the ancient kingdom of Magadha, now Bihar. (Parwaz Khan /HT PHOTO)

Updated on Aug 04, 2023 10:22 pm IST

Roundabout: I will meet you yet again!

A painting of Amrita Pritam and the silhouette of painter Imroz in the background: An image from the film ‘Imroz’ by Harjit Singh (HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 30, 2023 03:13 pm IST

Sahitya Akademi forms committee to review govt’s new mandate

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mumbai news

Updated on Jun 24, 2023 01:04 am IST

Sahitya Akademi members to oppose government’s intrusion in literary awards

The ministry has asked the Akademi to respond to its notice issued last month, after internal consultation with committee members. (Pic for representation)

mumbai news

Updated on Jun 20, 2023 07:38 am IST

Navdeep Suri, Translator: It’s satisfying translating something from 100 Yrs Ago

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Translator and former diplomat Navdeep Suri (Courtesy The Sacred Amritsar)

Updated on Apr 13, 2023 07:54 pm IST

Arupa Kalita’s Sahitya Akademi-winning book now in English

In these intimate portraits, women navigate family, violence, trauma, ambition and domesticity with caution, grace and a quiet resilience.

Updated on Sept 27, 2020 12:12 am IST

Shashi Tharoor, Nand Kishore Acharya among writers to receive Sahitya Akademi Award 2019

Politician-writer Shashi Tharoor won the award for his book An Era of Darkness in English.

Updated on Dec 18, 2019 06:01 pm IST

‘A pioneer, Amrita Pritam paved way to modern day feminism’

Updated on Aug 30, 2019 10:46 pm IST

Bollywood celebrities expected at Kanhaiya Kumar’s nomination papers filing on April 9

Famous Bollywood couple Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi are likely to campaign for Kanhaiya Kumar in Begusarai.

lok sabha election 2019

Updated on Apr 08, 2019 10:04 am IST

Gujarati poet Sitanshu Yashaschandra presented Saraswati Samman for 2017

(From left to right) Priyavrat Bhartia, Shobhna Bhartia, KK Birla Foundation’s president and editorial director of HT Media Ltd, chief guest Gulzar, Sitanshu Yashaschandra, Subhash C Kashyap and Suresh Rituparna during KK Birla Foundation’s Saraswati Samman presentation ceremony at National Museum Auditorium in New Delhi on Tuesday.

Published on Jan 22, 2019 11:37 pm IST

My Meerabai isn’t a cluster of cliches says Kiran Nagarkar of his Cuckold heroine on the book’s 21st anniversary

Kiran Nagarkar’s novel Cuckold was published the same year as The God of Small Things in 1997.