Jnanpith award is being considered paramount in Indian literature. Primarily because there is no similar award present in our multilingual nation. To select one of the best work in different languages or to select a author is very difficult and complex task. But rewards based on general participation of literature-lovers, microscopic analysis and objective inspection, the selection-process has made it possible on this challenging task.
This is first book of Nirmal Verma after death. The letters written to elder brother, painter Ram Kumar. Here most of the letters of Nirmal Verma was written from Prague in the sixties. The intimacy, mutual trust and sounds of said-unsaid between the two brothers takes a reader to their distant childhood. How, painter Ram Kumar and writer Nirmal Verma, were big support of each-other at the quandary time of life, is well explained in the letters. These letters are edited by Nirmalji's wife Mrs. Gagan Gill.
Naresh Mehta's poetry is unique, likewise his personality was also quite different. Nareshji was fully a writer from their costumes to even in life-style. But despite being an author he was completely a familial - affectionate man. The book written by Mahima ji is not only based on Naresh Mehta's life but, also comes up as an effort to understand an utmost creative personality.
Based on Shri Ramakrishna Paramhans's life this presentation is quite different from all the literary works written so far and is also unique in its ease and elegance. Shri Ramakrishna was unique among renaissance cultural heroes. Creed-tolerance as divine greatness was embodied in the personality of Shri Ramakrishna. Krishna Bihari Mishra has created it with such vitality that the whole scenario of the nineteenth century and Paramahansa Dev's full interesting personality comes up as live.
In this composition the writer has explored the background of the Aadigranth as well as identified such Saints, their thoughts and has considered their similar concepts and underlined the fact that how far is Aadigranth reflect the entire Indian thinking and Bhakti movement.