NEW DELHI - President Pranab Mukherjee Monday conferred the 49th Jnanpith Award, the country's highest literary award, on eminent Hindi poet Kedarnath Singh.Mukherjee said that he was pleased to award Jnanpith to Kedarnath Singh for his outstanding contribution towards Indian literature. "I am sure that Singh would continue to enrich Hindi literature in the years to come," he said, adding that Singh, through his poetry,
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