When jnanpith Award was Given to kupalli venkatappa puttappa kuvempu ?
It has been 50 years since Kannada got its first Jnanpith award. Though it was conferred on Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa (Kuvempu) for his magnum opus Sri Ramayana Darshanam on December 20, 1968, it was for the year 1967. He shared the award with Umashankar Joshi, a Gujarati littérateur
