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Jnanpith award is the ultimate literary award presented annually in democratic India in respect to promoting its art and culture. The Sahu Jain family was the founder of this award and was also the publisher of the Times of India. The year 1961 followed the institution of the award. This award was honoured to those citizens of India who were eligible for writing fluently in any of the Indian official languages. The prestigious Jnanpith award for 2015 was presented to the Gujarati novelist Raghuveer Chaudhary and a Hindi writer for the year 2017. However, 7 awards were chosen for the citizens belonging to Kannada.
Framework
The Bharatiya Jnanpith annually presents India’s oldest and highest literary and cultural award, the Jnanpith award. Gratitude was being honoured to those authors who were selected by a group of the committee according to their respective rules, who had always been successful in expressing their involvement and concern in the field of literature and culture. The constitution of India and English included all those authors being honoured with the reward in the Eight Schedule, with no conferral.
Selection Procedures and Guidelines
Authors who tend to express and illuminate perceptive work in the field of literature illustrating the Indian philosophy rooted in human values in a broader sight and cultural heritage are the ones eligible for honouring the Jnanpith award. One’s own commitment toward higher values of life in a broader way is the main perspective of the award. In those aspects, perceptive writing on higher values being analytical and reflective would be therefore considered for receiving the award. Any person from the institution or the publisher itself may submit their names for the proposal of the award. If any work of that publisher cannot be measured up to the required standard in that particular year, then no award will be declared by the selection committee.
Rewards
The author or publisher being chosen the winner would be given a prize of Rs 11 lakh, a citation plaque and a bronze replica of Goddess Saraswati that signifies knowledge and wisdom.
G. Sankara Kurup, a Malayalam writer, was the first recipient of the Jnanpith award and was honoured in the year 1965 for his contribution to a bundle of poems in the literary field. Odakkuzhal( the Bamboo Flute ) was one of his written poems that was published in the year 1950. In the following years, the rules were revised repeatedly that considered all the works produced during those years. A year being excluded where the prize money was brought up to Rs 1.5 lakh from the year 1981.
Similarly, the cash prize has again changed during 2015, and is increased to Rs 11 lakh. However, 16 eligible languages were chosen for the award to be presented to the specified works- Hindi, Kannada, Bengali, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi, Odia, Urdu, Assamese, Telugu, Punjabi, Tamil, Konkani, English, Kashmiri and Sanskrit.
Conclusion
Therefore, the Jnanpith award was honoured only by the deserving authors who gave an outstanding performance in making their contribution to the Indian literary field. Hence one should be able to express their work of high order values in a way that illuminates a reflective work in the field of literature and culture. Order to promote these authors or publishers for producing better works for our own culture is exactly why the Jnanpith award came into being. They would also be honoured with prizes, thus encouraging them to be more productive.
