🔆Jnanpith Award ✅The President of India conferred the 58th Jnanpith Award on Sanskrit scholar Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Ji at a function held at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi recently. 📍Jnanpith Award: ✅It is the highest literary honour of India, given to writers who have excelled in literature in different Indian languages. ✅It is given every year to an author for his/her outstanding contribution towards Indian literature through creative writing in any of the Indian languages mentioned in Schedule VIII of the Indian Constitution and English. ✅It was instituted in 1961. ✅The prize carries a cash award, a citation, and a bronze replica of Vagdevi (Saraswati), the goddess of learning. ✅The first recipient of the award was Malayalam poet G. Sankara Kurup, who received the award in 1965 for his collection of poems Odakkuzhal. ✅Only those creative writers who are alive and are Indian citizens, can be proposed for the Award. #pib