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Makhanlal Chaturvedi was the first winner of this award. Krishna Sobti was the first woman winner of this award. Daya Prakash Sinha is the recent winner of this award. Year. Author. Work. Type of Work. 1955. Makhanlal Chaturvedi.
Hindi literature ( Hindi: हिन्दी साहित्य, romanized : hindī sāhitya) includes literature in the various Hindi languages which have different writing systems. Earliest forms of Hindi literature are attested in poetry of Apabhraṃśa like Awadhi, and Marwari languages. Hindi literature is composed in three broad ...
The Charaka Samhita ( IAST: Caraka-Saṃhitā, “Compendium of Charaka ”) is a Sanskrit text on Ayurveda (Indian traditional medicine). [1] [2] Along with the Sushruta Samhita, it is one of the two foundational texts of this field that have survived from ancient India. [3] [4] [5] It is one of the three works that constitute the Brhat Trayi .
Timeline. v. t. e. Hindu scriptures are traditionally classified into two parts: śruti, meaning "what has been heard" (originally transmitted orally) and Smriti, meaning "what has been retained or remembered" (originally written, and attributed to individual authors). The Vedas are classified under śruti .
Raag Darbari is a satirical Hindi novel written by Sri Lal Sukla, published in 1968. He was awarded the Sahitya Academy Award, the highest Indian literary award, in 1969 for this novel. The novel illustrates the failing values present in post-Independence Indian society. It exposes the helplessness of intellectuals in the face of a strong and ...
Dalit literature is a genre of Indian writing that focuses on the lives, experiences, and struggles of the Dalit community, who have faced caste-based oppression and discrimination for centuries. [1] [2] [3] This literature encompasses various Indian languages such as Marathi, Bangla, Hindi, [4] Kannada, Punjabi, [5] Sindhi, Odia and Tamil and ...
Chitralekha is a 1934 Hindi novel by the Indian writer Bhagwati Charan Verma about the philosophy of life, love, sin and virtue. The author was still practicing law at Hamirpur when he wrote the novel, which brought him immediate fame and started his literary career. It is said to be modelled on Anatole France 's 1890 novel Thaïs but set in ...
Ardhanarishwar (meaning The Androgynous God or Shiva) is a Hindi novel by Indian writer Vishnu Prabhakar, published in 1992. It won the 1993 Sahitya Akademi Award for Hindi, given by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters. [1] [2] Prabhakar was honoured with the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of ...