Sankha Ghosh
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2016, Jnanpith Award
Sankha Ghosh bags Jnanpith award for 2016, May 2, 2017: The Times of India
Veteran Bengali poet and literary critic Prof Shankha Ghosh was conferred the 52ndJnanpith Award by President Pranab Mukherjee.
A professor of Bengali and an authority on the works of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, Ghosh is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Padma Bhushan, said a Rashtrapati Bhawan announcement.
Speaking on the occasion, the President said in conferring the award on Ghosh the selection board noted his poetic idiom and experiments with various forms that mark his greatness as a creative talent. He said. it is indeed an example of his brilliant fluidity that an author who strove to master Bengali academically, expressed himself in perhaps the most difficult literary genre of poetry . He also noted that Ghosh's poetry, while conveying their message, remained free from polemics.
An ardent writer of Bengali poetry , Ghosh's literary works like Adim LataGulmomay , Murkho Baro Samajik Noy or Baborer Prarthana, reflect a “rare poetic style that encompasses not only a lyrical style but also a deep reflection of the social milieu.“ His poetry often takes on superficiality in our society and is indeed a candid commentary on contemporary issues.
President Mukherjee said that he was sure that as a teacher Ghosh would have positively influenced the impressionable minds of his students, as much as enriching the readers of his literary works.
The Jnanpith award, is given for the best creative literary writing by any Indian citizen in any of the languages included in the eighth schedule of the Constitution and in English.
