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Jnanpith Award 2023
February 21 , 2024
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- The Urdu poet and Bollywood writer and director Gulzar and Sanskrit scholar Jagadguru Rambhadracharya have been selected for the Jnanpith award 2023.
- Gulzar or Sampooran Singh Kalra is considered one of the finest Urdu poets of his generation and is a top director and writer of Hindi cinema.
- Rambhadracharya is a renowned Hindu spiritual leader, educator and writer of more than 240 books and texts, including four epics.
- He is also the founder and head of Tulsi Peeth in Chitrakoot in Madhya Pradesh.
- Gulzar has received the Sahitya Akademi Award for Urdu in 2002, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2013, and the Padma Bhushan in 2004.
- He also won, at least five National Film awards for his work.
- This is the 58th edition of the Jnanpith Award given annually for outstanding contributions to Indian literature since 1965.
- It is presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith, which was established in 1944.
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