
Amitabh Bachchan, Union Minister Veerappa Moily, Alok P Jain (2ndL) and Akhilesh Jain (R) present 44th Jnanpith Award to famous Urdu poet Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar' (C) in New Delhi.
Poets O.N.V. KURUP and AKHLAQ K. SHAHRYAR win Jnanpith for ’07 and ’08 respectively. Seminal voices in Malayalam and Urdu, and stellar film lyricists too.