{"id":9068,"date":"2015-03-25T10:15:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T04:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=9068"},"modified":"2015-03-25T10:15:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T04:45:04","slug":"person-of-the-month-bhalchandra-nemade-50th-jnanpith-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=9068","title":{"rendered":"Person of the Month -Bhalchandra Nemade-50th Jnanpith Award winner."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bhalchandra Nemade, 50<sup>th<\/sup> Jnanpith Award winner .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bhalchandra-Nemade-jnapeeth-award.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9069\" src=\"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bhalchandra-Nemade-jnapeeth-award-279x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bhalchandra Nemade-jnapeeth-award\" width=\"279\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup><br \/>\n<\/sup><strong>Eminent Marathi litterateur Bhalchandra Nemade<\/strong>, whose 1963 novel Kosala (Cocoon) changed the dimensions of Marathi novel, has been selected for 2014 Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour in India.<\/p>\n<p>Nemade is the fourth Marathi writer to win the literary honour after V.S. Khandekar in 1974, V.V. Shirwadkar alias Kusumagraj in 1988, and Govind Karandikar alias Vinda Karandikar in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Novelist poet, critic, academic, and a relentless advocate of the literary movements and the leader of the post-1960s Little Magazine movement, Nemade has inscribed his name prominently in the annals of Indian literature.<\/p>\n<p>Not only was \u201cKosala\u201d instrumental in changing the dimensions of the Marathi novel, but the world of Marathi fiction was transformed with its advent. His mega-novel \u201cHindu\u201d, published in 2010, matched this feat that \u201cKosala\u201d achieved over five decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHindu\u201d prominently showcases Nemade\u2019s linguistic scholarship, his creative dexterity with words and an enclyclopaedic civilisational consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>His other novels are \u201cHool\u201d, \u201cBidar\u201d (1967), \u201cZarila\u201d (1977) and \u201cZhool\u201d (1979), and poetry volumes \u201cDekhni\u201d and \u201cMelody\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As a critic, Nemade propagated Deshivad or a theory of nativism that negated globalisation, asserting the value of a writer\u2019s native heritage, and language<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhalchandra Nemade, 50th Jnanpith Award winner . Eminent Marathi litterateur Bhalchandra Nemade, whose 1963 novel Kosala (Cocoon) changed the dimensions of Marathi novel, has been selected for 2014 Jnanpith Award, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=9068\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[447,448,449,450,451,452,453,454,455,456],"class_list":["post-9068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-and-honours","tag-1963-novel-kosala","tag-50th-jnanpith-award-winner","tag-academic","tag-and-govind-karandikar-alias-vinda-karandikar-in-2003","tag-bhalchandra-nemade","tag-critic","tag-novelist-poet","tag-the-highest-literary-honour-in-india","tag-v-s-khandekar-in-1974","tag-v-v-shirwadkar-alias-kusumagraj-in-1988","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}