March 2026 month current affairs

Jnanpith Award (60th) 2025:  To be awarded to  R. Vairamuthu  (Tamil poet, lyricist). He is the 3rd Tamil writer to receive India's highest literary honour.

Sahitya Akademi Awards 2025 (24 languages):

• English:  Navtej Sarna  for  "Crimson Spring"  (based on Jallianwala Bagh massacre).

• Hindi (Memoir):  Mamta Kalia  for  "Jeete Ji Ilahabad" .

• Sanskrit: Mahamahopadhyay Sadhu Bhadradas Ji for  "Prasthan Chatushtaya Brahmaghosh" .

• Manipuri: Haobam Nalini.

• Malayalam: N. Prabhakaran.

• Kannada: Amresh Nunakodoni.

• Konkani: Henry Mendonca.

• Sindhi: Bhagwan Atlani.

• Tamil: Tamil Selvan.

• Telugu: Nandini Siddha Reddy.

• Urdu: Preetpal Singh Betab for  "Safar Jari Hai" .

Sangita Kalanidhi Award 2026:   Dr. Jayanthi Kumaresh  (veena player).

Nritya Kalanidhi Award 2026:  Narendra ji.

Abel Prize (Maths Nobel) 2026:  Awarded to German mathematician  Gerd Faltings  for fundamental contributions to arithmetic geometry.

Oscars 2026 (98th Academy Awards):

• Best Actor:  Michael B. Jordan  ( "Sinners" ).

• Best Actress:  Jessie Buckley  ( "Hamnet" ).

• Best Director:  Paul Thomas Anderson  ( "The Brutalist" ).

• Best Film:  "The Brutalist" .

• Best Casting:  Cassandra Kulukundis  for  "The Brutalist"  (first year this category was added).

Grammy Awards 2026 (68th):  (already covered in previous months, but mentioned here).

Book releases:

• "Karuna: The Power of Compassion"  by Nobel laureate  Kailash Satyarthi .

• "Mahatma: A Great Communicator"  by  Dr. Dheeraj Kakadia  (former DG, All India Radio).

• "Crimson Spring"  by Navtej Sarna.