The Institute is happy to announce the initiation of the selection process of ‘Bhasha - Bharati Samman: 2005-06 & 2006-07. The awards are meant to promote literary creativity and inter-lingual harmony in India. 22 such awards of Rs.25,000/- each are meant for such authors who writebooks in or translate books into one or the other of the 20 Indian languages listed below, which must be other than their mother tongue.  The award is meant to be given every year, for all Indian Languages mentioned in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution (other than Hindi and Sanskrit) i.e. Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Maithili, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.  Two languages of the North East are also included in the scheme.

Books (creative as well as critical writing but, not dissertations or reports etc.) in any of the following fields will be eligible:

Literature, Fine Arts & Humanities, Social Science, and Science & Technology. Further two out of the 22 awards are specifically reserved for those writers whose mother tongue is Hindi. The details of terms and conditions of the Bhasha - Bharati Samman: 2005-06 & 2006-07 are available at the website of the Institute: www.ciil.org.

Last date to receive submissions: November 30, 2007

August 22, 2007
Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh
Director, CIIL, Mysore
e-mail: samman@ciil.stpmy.soft.net

Contact :
Dr. B.Mallikarjun
0821-2345008 (Off.)
e-mail: mallikarjun@ciil.stpmy.soft.net