Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao expressed happiness over the selection of Dr Pathipaka Mohan for the prestigious Bal Sahitya Puraskar awarded by the Kendriya Sahitya Akademi for the year 2022. Mohan will be presented with the award for his work ‘Balala Thatha Bapuji’ (children’s grandfather Bapuji) in Telugu. In a statement, the Chief Minister […]
Hyderabad: Popular writer and Kendra Sahitya Akademi awardee Vasala Narsaiah passed away in Karimnagar on Sunday. He was 80. Narasaiah was bedridden for the past couple of years due to prolonged illness and breathed his last in the early hours of Sunday. Born on January 26, 1942 at Chavulamaddi village in erstwhile Karimnagar district, Narasaiah […]
Instituted by the Parag initiative of Tata Trusts, this was the fifth edition of the Big Little Book Award. The chosen language this year was English. In the previous years, the award considered children's literature in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, and Kannada.