literature medium True/False

Tarashankar Bandopadhyay won the Jnanpith Award in 1966 for his novel 'Ganadevata', which depicts the disintegration of a village community.

  1. True
  2. False

Answer: True

Tarashankar Bandopadhyay was the second Bengali writer to win the Jnanpith Award for 'Ganadevata', a novel exploring the impact of urbanization and war on rural Bengal.

Topic Bengali Literature
Exam Relevance UPSC Prelims, SSC CGL