The 52nd Jnanpith Award was conferred to celebrated Bengali poet and literary critic Sankha Ghosh by President Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi on April 27.
The President said, "A professor of Bengali and an authority in his own right on the works of Rabindranath Tagore, Prof. Sankha Ghosh represents the fluid brilliance that characterises India's multifarious literary genius... 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," reported IANS.
An eminent poet, Ghosh's literary works are not only lyrical but also reflect the social milieu. His poetry comments on superficiality of the society and contemporary issues. Some of his famous works include Adim Lata- Gulmomay, Murkho Baro, Samajik Noy.
Ghosh, 85, was also awarded the Sahitya Akademi award in 1977 for his work Baabarer Praarthanaa and in the year 1999, for translating Kannada play Taledanda into Bengali as Raktakalyan. Ghosh was also honoured with Padma Bhushan in 2011, read the report.
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