Vice President Presents Moortidevi Award for 2010 to Prof Gopi Chand Narang

The Vice President of India Shri M. Hamid Ansari presented the “Moortidevi Award for 2010” to eminent Urdu scholar Prof. Gopi Chand Narang for his outstanding work ‘Urdu Ghazal aur Hindustani Zehan wa Tehzeeb” at a function organized by Bhartiya Jnanpith on November 16.

About Moortidevi Award:

This Award carries the memory of Moortidevi, mother of Late Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain, founder of Bharatiya Jnanpith. This Award is presented for a contemplative or intellectual work, which underlines and expresses Indian philosophy and cultural heritage based on wider ideals and human values. It is conferred on the litterateur who is alive. The Moortidevi Award is an annual literary award in India presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith organization for a work which emphasizes Indian philosophy and culture. The prize includes an amount of Rupees two Lakh, a plaque, a statue of Saraswati, and a shawl.
  
Recipients^:

• 1983 C.K.Nagaraja Rao
• 1984 Virendra Kumar Jain
• 1985 Manu Bhai Pancholi ‘Darshak'
• 1986 Kanhyaiya Lal Sethia
• 1988 Vishnu Prabhakar
• 1989 Vidya Niwas Mishra
• 1990 Munishree Nagraj
• 1991 Pratibha Ray
• 1992 Acharya Kuber Nath Rai
• 1993 Shyamacharan Dubey
• 1994 Shivaji Sawant
• 1995 Nirmal Verma
• 2000 Govind Chandra Pande
• 2001 Rammurti Tripathi
• 2002 Yashdev Shalya
• 2003 Kalyan Mal Lodha
• 2004 Narayan Desai
• 2005 Rammurti Sharma
• 2006 Krishna Bihari Mishra
• 2007 M. Veerappa Moily
• 2008 Raghuvansh
• 2009 Akkitham Achuthan Namboodiri
• 2010 Pro. Gopichand Narang
• 2011 Gulab Kothari