{"id":173265,"date":"2025-06-13T15:29:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T09:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=173265"},"modified":"2025-06-13T15:29:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T09:59:51","slug":"president-murmu-confers-highest-literary-honour-to-gulzar-rambhadracharya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/president-murmu-confers-highest-literary-honour-to-gulzar-rambhadracharya\/","title":{"rendered":"President Murmu Confers Highest Literary Honour to Gulzar &#038; Rambhadracharya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 58th Jnanpith Award, India\u2019s highest literary honour, was presented by President Droupadi Murmu to Gulzar, a renowned poet and lyricist, and Rambhadracharya, a spiritual scholar and Sanskrit poet, in May 2025.<br>The event held at Vigyan Bhavan honoured their unique and lasting contributions to Indian literature\u2014Gulzar for his emotional lyrics and screenwriting, and Rambhadracharya for his devotional writings and work in education for the visually impaired.<br>This recognition reflects the diversity and depth of India\u2019s cultural and literary heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the Jnanpith Award<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Instituted:<\/strong>\u00a01961 by Bharatiya Jnanpith.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Presented by:<\/strong>\u00a0Bharatiya Jnanpith organization.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Purpose:<\/strong>\u00a0To honour outstanding contributions to Indian literature.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Components of the award:<\/strong>\u00a0Citation, cash prize, and a bronze idol of Vagdevi (Saraswati).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Previous notable recipients:<\/strong>\u00a0Mahadevi Verma, Amrita Pritam, Girish Karnad, Pratibha Ray.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rambhadracharya<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Real name:<\/strong>\u00a0Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Known for:<\/strong>\u00a0Four Sanskrit epics including Geet Ramayan and Dashavatara Charitam.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gulzar<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Real name:<\/strong>\u00a0Sampooran Singh Kalra.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Known for<\/strong>: Iconic poems and songs like Tujhse Naraz Nahi Zindagi, Chaiyya Chaiyya, Humko Mann Ki Shakti Dena.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 58th Jnanpith Award, India\u2019s highest literary honour, was presented by President Droupadi Murmu to Gulzar, a renowned poet and lyricist, and Rambhadracharya, a spiritual scholar and Sanskrit poet, in May 2025.The event held at Vigyan Bhavan honoured their unique and lasting contributions to Indian literature\u2014Gulzar for his emotional lyrics and screenwriting, and Rambhadracharya for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":173266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5372],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-173265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-may-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173267,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173265\/revisions\/173267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173265"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=173265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}