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.