Indira Goswami, known by her pen name Mamoni Raisom Goswami and popularly as Mamoni Baideo, was an Indian writer, poet, professor, scholar and editor.
Mamoni Raisom Goswami
Goswami in inauguration ceremony of a 2nd India Saraswati temple at Bijoy Nagar, Guwahati
The Jnanpith Award is the oldest and the highest Indian literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their "outstanding contribution towards literature". Instituted in 1961, the award is bestowed only on Indian writers writing in Indian languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India and English, with no posthumous conferral.
Citation plaque
G. Sankara Kurup was the first recipient of the award.
Image: Jagadguru Rambhadracharya
Image: Gulzar at Tera Bayaan Ghalib