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	Sahitya Academy Awards - Books & Authors
		The Sahitya Akademi was formally inaugurated by the Government of India on 12 March 1954.
		Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, is the central institution for literary dialogue, publication- and promotion in the country and the only institution that undertakes literary activities in twenty-two Indian languages, including English.
		Sahitya Akademi is aware of cultural and linguistic differences and does not believe in forced standardisation of culture through a bulldozing of levels and attitudes.
	www.indiapicks.com /Literature/Sahitya_Academy/SA_Intro.htm (743 words)

	Prime Minister's Office
		The Golden Jubilee of the Sahitya Akademi is therefore, a landmark, not only in the history of this great institution, but in the cultural history of our country as well.
		The importance of Sahitya Akademi’s mandate is as significant today, as it was when we became independent in 1947.
		As the Akademi enters the sixth decades of its life, we pay tributes to the many eminent writers, scholars who guided the destiny of this great institution as presidents and as members through good and bad times.
	pmindia.nic.in /speech/content.asp?id=40 (1250 words)

	officialwebsite of kerala.gov.in
		The Kerala Sahitya Akademi is an autonomous institution established for the promotion add development of Malayalam language and literature.
		The Akademi was registered according to the Tiruvitamkur Kochi Societies Registration Act of 1955 and is functioning with grant given by the Government of Kerala.
		Sahitya Lokam is meant for the serious study and development of Malayalam language and literature.
	www.kerala.gov.in /dept_culture/dept_sahithya_akademi.htm (938 words)

	Sahitya Akademi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sahitya Akademi is an Indian organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India.
		The Sahitya Akademi organises national and regional workshops and seminars; provides research and travel grants to authors; publishes books and journals, including the Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature; and presents an annual award of Rs.
		In January 2006 Arundhati Roy was awarded the Sahitya Akademi award for her collection of essays, 'The Algebra of Infinite Justice', but declined to accept it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sahitya_Akademi (158 words)

	The Hindu : Pall of gloom at Sahitya Akademi
		The Hindu : Pall of gloom at Sahitya Akademi
		A pall of gloom descended on the Kerala Sahitya Akademi's headquarters here as the news of the death of the Akademi president, N. Muhammed in Kozhikode, was received this morning.
		According to the Akademi secretary, P. Krishnan Nair, the commitment to high democratic principles that the late Muhammed could uphold as the president of the Akademi will remain as the profound model to be followed by all those come at the helm of affairs of the literary body in future.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/2003/01/04/stories/2003010402560300.htm (342 words)

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	dsal.uchicago.edu /sauc/sahitya-akademi-pilot-project.rtf (2638 words)

	K. Satchidanandan, a poet in 'unpoetic' times
		After an illustrious tenure as secretary of the Sahitya Akademi here, K. Satchidanandan is set to bid adieu to the institution he has served for over 13 years.
		At the Sahitya Akademi, India's apex body for literature, it has been quite a balancing act for him, continuously juggling the poet in him and the almost-bureaucratic secretarial post.
		Satchidanandan's association with the Sahitya Akademi, Delhi, began in 1992 as an editor.
	news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/India/20060530/348600.html (541 words)

	Arundhati
		The Dalit perception of the socio-cultural significance of Arundhati Roy was explained in a paper presented by T.B. Vijaya Kumar, a Dalit activist, at a seminar organised by the Akademi on January 16 on the topic of "savarna sahithyam" (literature of the upper castes).
		Punathil Kunhabdulla was all praise for the Akademi for its having organised the reception for Arundhati Roy.
		The Kerala Dalit Sahitya Akademi holds the opinion that the literary and cultural atmosphere in Kerala is hostile to Dalits; however, a big volume of Dalit literature exists in Malayalam.
	www.saxakali.com /southasia/newpage4.htm (2294 words)

	World Book Fair - HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Sahitya Akademi was set up by the Government of India to foster and coordinate literary activities in all the Indian languages and to promote through them the cultural unity of India.
		The main objective of the Sahitya Akademi is to meet the challenge posed by a multi-lingual society.
		Sahitya Akademi is housed in the Rabindra Bhawan which was built in 1961 to commemorate the birth centenary of Rabindranath Tagore.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/6894_576800,001600500001.htm (263 words)

	Sahitya Akademi Elections: Colourful clash; Mar 2, 2003 The Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Sahitya Akademi elections in Delhi, on February 17, for president and vice-president, were more a political than a cultural contest.
		The last president of the Sahitya Akademi, Ramakant Rath, was almost an absentee president.
		"It was a contest between an insider and an outsider." While Akademi secretary, K. Satchidanandan called it a democratic exercise, his speech the same evening at the Akademi awards ceremony was loaded.
	www.the-week.com /23mar02/life9.htm (553 words)

	Daily Excelsior... Editorial
		One of the main objectives of the Sahitya Akademi is to work actively for the development of Indian literature and to set up high literary standards.
		In fulfillment of this objective, the Akademi awards are given to the most outstanding books of literary merit in each of the languages recognised by it.
		Before the establishment of the Sahitya akademi, the Government of India had been considering measures ''to encourage the development of creative literature in the different Indian languages.'' Some of the state governments had schemes in this respect.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /02apr05/edit.htm (5416 words)

	International
		Among them was the former secretary of the Sahitya Akademi, Dr. Indra Nath Chaudhari, the famous Punjabi writer and scholar, Dr. Maheep Singh, the famous singer Surrinder Singh and, of course.
		An interesting detail which appeared during the Sahitya Akademi election campaign was that Mahashweta Devi did not seem to know, or at least think, that literary critics had anything to do with literature or whether an eminent literary critic was recognised as a man or woman of literature.
		All I would say is that, in the interest of Indian literature and the Sahitya Akdemi, the defeated need to forget their defeat and stop licking their wounds; the victors should stop gloating over their victory and spare the defeated their contempt and wrath.
	www.dayafterindia.com /mar1/good.html (1100 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Frontpage
		The president of the Sahitya Akademi, Professor Gopichand Narang, and the secretary, Professor K. Satchidanandan, were part of a seven-member committee that also included the joint secretaries of the ministries of home affairs and human resources development and the department of culture.
		The Sahitya Akademi office bearers told the government three months ago -- when the move was first made -- that it would be unwise to grant such recognition to just one language in a country of such diversity.
		Members of the committee felt that the pressure was being brought on it because of the compulsions of the Congress and the UPA government to appease its ally, M. Karunanidhi?s DMK.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040928/asp/frontpage/story_3813391.asp (700 words)

	tribuneindia...Chandigarh Features
		TNS spoke to some authors those associated with the akademis, and all of them condemned the “controversial sardar” for not only raking up a non-issue but also being insensitive towards the Indian authors and their needs.
		The akademis make it possible for the writers to reach out to a larger audience, which otherwise would not be possible for a poor writer, especially for the regional writer”, said this year’s Punjabi Sahitya Akademi award winner Mohan Bhandari.
		The Punjab Sahitya Akademi has also opened libraries in villages and these days is busy taking out booklets to different towns of Punjab, in order to study the book culture in greater depth.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99aug02/cth3.htm (1120 words)

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		The Sahitya Akademi organised a gathering of poets from the eastern Indian languages on May 21, 1972 at the National Library, Calcutta to coincide with the bi-centenary celebrations of Raja Rammo- hun Roy's Birthday.
		M.U. Malkani, the veteran author in Sindhi with the fellowship of the Akademi in the presence of a distinguished gathering of authors and literateurs.
		The Sahitya Akademi organised a series of five seminars in the various parts of the country to pay homage to the memory of Sri Aurobindo whose birth-centenary was celebrated all over the world during the year.
	www.education.nic.in /cd50years/12/8I/69/8I690E01.htm (3084 words)

	Centre cold-shoulders Akademi's fest fervour
		BANGALORE, Aug 6: The Central Sahitya Akademi is aggrieved by what they call an insensitive letdown by the Government in hindering the ambitious plans of the body to celebrate the golden jubilee of India's freedom.
		The Central Government has shot down a proposal by the Akademi to film the life and times of India's eminent writers during the freedom struggle.With the government chiding the Sahitya Akademi for thinking big, the literary body is settling down to ``observe the golden jubilee introspectively''.
		The Sahitya Akademi top brass who were in the city said that a museum of the modern and pre-modern Indian classics at the Centre would be instituted.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19970807/21950453.html (532 words)

	Controversy: The BJP tries to tame a stubborn Sahitya Akademi Feb 16, 2003 The Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		But they are at the centre of a raging debate which threatens to change the fate of the three cultural shibboleths of the country: the Sahitya Akademi, the Sangeet Natak Akademi and the Lalit Kala Akademi, founded 50 years ago as autonomous bodies to preside over India's culturescape.
		Naidu's letter was apparently a reaction to poems penned by K. Satchidanandan, secretary of the Sahitya Akademi, in the aftermath of the Gujarat violence.
		It recommended that a three-member search committee be appointed for selection, of which two were to be nominated by the President and the third was to be a former chairman of the akademi.
	www.the-week.com /23feb16/events11.htm (811 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Northeast
		While the Akademi is said to have cited “financial crunch” as the reason for turning down the demand, the home ministry’s stand on the issue paints a very “uncertain future” on the inclusion of the Khasi language in the Eighth Schedule.
		Sources said the Khasi language was set aside as it does not fulfil “some of the criteria” like the number of people speaking the language being “too few” and the size of the population speaking the language in Meghalaya being relatively small.
		Lamare, a Sahitya Akademi member in Shillong and a member of the Khasi Authors’ Society, was not available for comments.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040825/asp/northeast/story_3673485.asp (379 words)

	Screen The Business Of Entertainment-Music-Cover Story
		On April 17, 2002, eminent Urdu poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi was bestowed with the highest literary honour, the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship.
		The Sahitya Akademi is privileged to confer its highest honour of Fellowship today on Sri Kaifi Azmi (Athar Husain Rizvi), one of the most renowned and celebrated poets of India, writing in Urdu.
		Address of Shri Ramakanta Rath, president, Sahitya Akademi at the function held on April 17, 2002, at Mumbai to confer the Akademi Fellowship on Shri Kaifi Azmi.
	www.screenindia.com /20020426/mcov.html (1491 words)

	K V Subbanna honoured with State Sahitya Akademi Award - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Well-known critic, theatre activist, writer and thinker K V Subbanna was presented with the honourary award of the Karnataka State Sahitya Akademi for the year 2003 at a simple and informal ceremony in Ninasam, Heggodu in Sagar taluk on Thursday.
		He expressed his gratitude to the president and members of the Sahitya Akademi and said that he could not receive the award at the academy programme organised at Mandya because of weak health though he would have been happy to do so.
		Registrar of the Akademi Mallikarjuna Swamy said that the akademy was very happy and proud to confer the award on K V Subbanna in recognition of his multi faceted contribution to literature and culture.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/apr102004/d4.asp (569 words)

	Central Institute of Indian Languages
		A meeting was held in the chamber of the President, Sahitya Akademi, convened by three institutions devoted to the development of Indian languages, viz.
		The Secretary, Sahitya Akademi commented that an appropriate brochure may be printed by all three organizations together outlining the idea behind Anukriti and highlighting the services offered through the net.
		Lastly, it was agreed that the idea be pursued in all seriousness and that Sahitya Akademi and National Book Trust will take necessary steps to place the matter before their respective governing bodies for their concurrence and approval.
	www.ciil.org /Main/Programmes/anukruti.htm (1137 words)

	Navhind Times on the Web: Panorama
		While giving some statistics, Shri Faleiro quotes the President of the Sahitya Akademi and says that, “the print order for award-winning Konkani literature in Devanagari was about 300 copies, almost 100 were distributed free of charge and the rest remain in the godowns of the Akademi.” This is totally false and baseless.
		Because, the award-winning books are not printed or published by the Sahitya Akademi and therefore the question of “200 out of 300 copies” remaining in the godowns of the Sahitya Akademi does not arise at all.
		The Sahitya Akademi, the National Book Trust and other similar agencies, publish the books in Sindhi written in Perso-Arabic only, the script which is used for Sindhi in its place of origin, in Pakistan also.
	www.navhindtimes.com /articles.php?Story_ID=073042 (598 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Books
		An open, free-for-all discussion on the lawns of the Sahitya Akademi at Rabindra Sadan would have been a welcome addition at this annual get-together.
		Akademi president and Urdu writer Gopi Chand Narang in his address said that though writers from this region had a certain degree of commonality in spite of their different cultures and religions, no writer would wish to lose his or her identity.
		It can be said that as long as the Akademi remains morally accountable not only to itself but also to its writing fraternity, is neither leftist nor rightist in its outlook, and is not allergic to change or suggestion, all will be well with this organisation which has enjoyed half a century of fruitful existence.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20050313/spectrum/book6.htm (810 words)

	Arundhati Roy refuses Sahitya Akademi award
		Celebrated writer Arundhati Roy on Saturday refused to accept the prestigious Sahitya Akademi award in protest against the Indian government toeing the United States' line by 'violently and ruthlessly pursuing policies of brutalisation of industrial workers, increasing militarisation and economic neo-liberalisation.'
		The Sahitya Akademi jury had last week chose her book, The Algebra of Infinite Justice, a collection of political essays for the 2005 literary award.
		I am sharing with you all those concerns which are creeping in your mind about the status quo of world politics on the cost of...
	www.rediff.com /news/2006/jan/14award.htm (396 words)

	Gulzar among Sahitya Akademi Award winners
		Noted Urdu lyricist and author Gulzar, Tamil writer S Balasubramanian and Marathi playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar are among the 22 litterateurs selected for this year's Sahitya Akademi awards, which were announced in New Delhi on Saturday.
		The executive board of the Akademi, which met under the chairmanship of its president Ramakant Rath, approved selection of 22 books, chosen on the basis of recommendations made by a jury of three members in the concerned languages, its secretary K Satchidananadan said in a release.
		The winners of the Sahitya Akademi for translation are Prabhat Chandra Sarma [Assamese], Usha Ranjan Bhattacharya [Bengali], Neetha Kumar [English], Shakuntala Mehta [Gujarati], Krishan Mohan [Hindi], Veena Santeshwara [Kannada], Gokuldas Prabhu [Konkini], Prabodh Narayan Singh [Maithili] and Damodharan Kaliyath [Malayalam].
	www.rediff.com /news/2002/dec/21sahit.htm (347 words)

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