DANCE
- Classical dance forms are based on ancient dance discipline and have rigid rules of presentation. Important among them are Bharata Natyam, Kathakali, Kathak, Manipuri, Kuchipudi and
- Bharata Natyam, though it derives its roots from Tamil Nadu, has developed into an all India form.
- Kathakali is a dance form of
- Kathak is a classical dance form revitalised as a result of Mughal influence on Indian culture.
- Manipur has contributed to a delicate, lyrical style of dance called Manipuri, while Kuchipudi is a dance form owing its origin to Andhra Pradesh.
- Odissi from Odisha, once practised as a temple dance, is today widely exhibited by artistes across the country.
SAHITYA AKADEMI
- Sahitya Akademi is the Indian National Academy of Letters, to promote Indian literature through publications, translations, seminars, workshops, cultural exchange programmes and literary meets organised all over the country.
- The Akademi was founded in March 1954 as an autonomous body fully funded by the Department of Culture. It was registered as a Society in 1956 under the Societies Registration Act, 1860.
- The Akademi has recognised 24 languages. It has an Advisory Board for each of the languages that suggests various programmes and publications in the concerned languages.
- Besides its Head Office in New Delhi, it has four offices in Kolkata, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai.
- The Akademi has two Translation Centres at Bengaluru and Kolkata, besides a Project Office at Shillong for promotion of oral and tribal literature and an Archive of Indian literature in Delhi.
- It maintains a unique multilingual library in New Delhi and at its regional offices at Bengaluru and Kolkata, having about 1.5 lakh books in over 25 languages.
- The 3 fellowships by Sahitya Akademi are:—
- Sahitya Akademi Honorary Fellowhip
- Anand Fellowship
- Premchand Fellowship
- Akademi confers its fellowship, its highet honour to literary figures.
- Sahitya Akademi also instituted a Fellowship named after Premchand during his 125th Birth Anniversary in 2005 for scholars doing research on Indian literature or to Creative writers from the countries of the SAARC region other than India.
- Sahitya Akademi Award amount, which was Rs 5,000 at the time of inception, is now Rs 50,000 since 2003. The first awards were given in 1955.
- It has three journals, Indian Literature (bi-monthly in English), Samkaleena Bharatiya Sahitya (bi-monthly in Hindi) and Samskrita Pratibha (half-yearly in Sanskrit).
- The Akademi celeb rated its Annual Festival of letters 2014 coinciding with the year of Akademi’s incorporation from 10th to 15th March, 2014.
