Sahitya Akademi

Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, is the central institution for literary dialogue, publication and promotion in the country and the only institution that undertakes promotion of literature through literary activities in twenty-four Indian languages (Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Sanskrit,Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu), including Indian English. It was founded on the 12 of March, 1954.