Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 14: Agnishekhar, Mridula Garg and Sudha Arora, the three eminent Hindi writers are among this year’s Mira Smriti Samman Awardees for their distinguished contribution to contemporary Hindi Literature.
Two other awardees Prof Syed Mohammad Akeel and Prof Yadunath Prasadh are also nominees for this prestigious award for their contribution to Urdu and Buddhist studies respectively.
The awards will be given by the chief guest of the ceremony Padamshri Shamasur Rahman Farookhi, Dhoodh Nath Singh and Prof Some Nandyopadhyay the noted Hindi Literatures at North-Central Cultural Zone Allahabad.
This prestigious Hindi Literary Award has been instituted by Mira Foundation established in 2008 in the memory of Mira Aggarwal who was a source of great inspiration of ‘Sahitya Bhandar’ Allahabad, the reputed Hindi literary publication house which has published a wide range of important works of writers, poets, critics, playwrights, political scientists and historians.
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