Kerala HC stays handing over Poonthanam Jnanappana Award to
The Kerala High Court on Thursday stayed the Guruvayur Devaswom Managing Committee's decision to confer this year's 'Poonthanam Jnanappana' award on noted poet Prabha Varma for his collection of poems titled "Shyama Madhavam". Varma is also press secretary to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Taking up a plea filed by a lawyer seeking a direction to the Devaswom panel not to give the award, a division bench of Justices C T Ravikumar and N Nagaresh also issued notices to the Devaswom managing committee and Varma. Читать дальше...