Gruhalakshmi Swarnakankanam
Swarnakankanam award
Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao launched a monthly magazine for women, Gruhalakshmi, in 1928 and founded the Swarnakankanam (gold bracelet) award in 1934 to honour women for excellence in literature and social reform.
Recipients of the award
- Kanuparti Varalakshmamma (1934)
- Ganti Krishnavenamma(1950)
- Kommuri Padmavatidevi (1956)
- Utukuri Lakshmikantamma
- Illindala Saraswatidevi
- K. Ramalakshmi
- Tenneti Hemalata (Lata)(1963)
- Vedula Meenakshidevi
- Nayani Krishnakumari
- Gudipudi Indumatidevi
- Kanakadurga Ramachandran
- Abburi Chayadevi
- Gidugu Lakshmikantamma
External sources
- K. Ramalakshmi (Comp.)(1968) Andhra Racayitrulu samaachara suchika. Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Akademi.
- Yeddanapudi Sulochanarani and Prabhavati, Vasa. Ed.(2009) Nenu, naa rachanalu. Hyderabad: Mahila Chaitanya sahiti samskrutika samstha.
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