page_title: Krishna Chaithanya
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Krishna Chaithanya / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: This is the reviews of the book Mahabharata, a literary study by Krishna Chaitanya aka K.K Nair, on the back cover of his book.
context_page_description: Krishna Chaitanya was the pen name of Krishnapillai Krishnankutty Nair, known as K.K. Nair. He is an author of about 40 books on the subjects of art, literature, philosophy and education, and an art critic, musicologist and photographer.
context_section_description: Nair spent most of his life in Delhi where he retired as Director, Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity of the Government of India. Most of his works are related to the history of literature.
  The major categories  of his works are: a five-volume philosophy of freedom for which he got a Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship (1978); a ten-volume history of world literature in English and several Indian languages which won a special award from the Kerala Sahitya Academy; several books on Indology; books for children published during the International Year of the Child.
  Chaitanya is the author of a four-volume history of Indian painting,
  has been for three decades art critic of one Indian periodical and music and dance critic of another, has been a member of the jury for Madhya Pradesh Government's Kalidas Award for eminent musician (1985) and visual artist (1987).
  As Chairman or member of functional committees he has been associated with over a dozen national cultural organizations and institutions in India. He is a recipient of the ‘Critics of ideas’ award (1964) from the Institute of International education, New York. He was honoured with a D Litt (Honoris Causa) by the Rabindra Bharati University in 1986 and received the Padma Shri from the Indian Government in 1992.
caption: This is the reviews of the book Mahabharata, a literary study by Krishna Chaitanya a.k.a. K.K Nair, on the back cover of his book.
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