The Sahitya Akademi is an Indian organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India. It 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 in each of the 22 languages it supports. Wikisource Every Author - Online books and writers forums A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism, and Philology (José Ángel García Landa, University of Zaragoza, Spain) Open Directory Project: Literature World Literature Electronic Text Archives Magazines and E-zines Online Writing Writers Resources Libraries, Digital Cataloguing, Metadata Distance Learning T... The article describes the languages spoken in the Republic of India. ...
The Akademi was launched on March 12, 1954 and is supported by, though independent of, the Indian government. March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (72nd in Leap years). ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Assamese (অসমীয়া) or Asamiya is the language spoken by some of the natives of the state of Assam in northeast India. ... This article is about the Bengali language. ... Dogri is an Indic language spoken by some two million people in South Asia, chiefly in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir but also in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, other parts of Kashmir and elsewhere. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Gujarati (also sometimes Gujrati) is a language native to the state of Gujarat in western India. ... Hindi (हिन्दी) is a language spoken in most states in northern and central India. ... Kannada - aptly described as sirigannada (known to few as Kanarese) is one of the oldest Dravidian languages and is spoken in its various dialects by roughly 45 million people. ... Kashmiri is an Dardic Indo-Aryan language spoken in parts of India and Pakistan. ... Konkani is a term used to refer both to a language and to an Indian ethnic group. ... Maithili is of the family of Indo-Aryan languages, which are part of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. ... Malayalam (മലയാളം) is the major language of the state of Kerala, in southern India. ... Manipuri or Meiteilon is the predominant language and lingua-franca in the state of Manipur, in northeastern India. ... Marathi (मराठी) is one of the widely spoken languages of India, and has a long literary history. ... Nepali is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Nepal, India, Bhutan and partially in Burma. ... Oriya (ଓଡ଼ିଆ) is one of the Indian languages mainly spoken in the Indian state of Orissa. ... Punjabi (sometimes spelled Panjabi) is the language of the Punjab regions of India and Pakistan. ... The Sanskrit language (Skt. ... Sindhi is the language of the Sindh region of South Asia, which is now a province of Pakistan. ... Missing image The letter ழ் is a consonant believed to be unique to Tamil and Malayalam Tamil is a classical language and one of the major languages belonging to the Dravidian language family. ... Telugu(తెలుగు) belongs to the family of Dravidian languages and is the official language of the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. ... Urdu (اردو) is an Indo-European language which originated in India, most likely in the vicinity of Delhi, whence it spread to the rest of the subcontinent. ...
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The SahityaAkademi was formally inaugurated by the Government of India on 12 March1954.
SahityaAkademi, 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.
SahityaAkademi is aware of cultural and linguistic differences and does not believe in forced standardisation of culture through a bulldozing of levels and attitudes.
The Golden Jubilee of the SahityaAkademi 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 SahityaAkademi’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.
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