In 1965, G. Sankara Kurup received the inaugural Jnanpith award for his work on Odakkuzhal. In Malayalam, he wrote Odakkuzhal. Jnanpit Awards were given to a total of seven female writers until 2014. Ashapurna Devi was the first woman to get the Jnanpith award for her contribution in Pratham Pratisruti in Bangla. After her death in 2008, her daughter Santha Kumar claimed that she was the first recipient who won the award for her work. But the government of India does not agree with this claim and has not included her name in the list of winners. The Jnanpith Award is considered the highest literary honor in India. The awards are administered by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) and consist of two awards: one is given for children's literature and the other is given for writing in any language. The awards are named after the father of modern science Jagadish Chandra Bose. --- Jagadish Chandra Bose was a Indian scientist who discovered radio waves in 1883. He also invented new techniques for treating diseases using electricity. After retiring from the Indian Imperial Research Institute in Kolkata, he returned to India in 1930 to take up research at the Calcutta University. He died in 1958 at the age of 90. Bose is known for his works on physics, astronomy, and mathematics.