Latest


Lifetime achievement award for Khuswant Singh

  •   Fri, Nov 15 2013 04:25:21 PM

Mumbai, Nov 15 (IANS): Renowned Indian writer Khushwant Singh was Friday awarded a lifetime achievement award at the Mumbai LitFest 2013 here.

The award was received by his close friends Trilochan Sahney and Bir Sahneyon on behalf of the 98-year old writer.

The award, which carries a citation, silver plaque and cash prize of Rs.500,000, has been instituted to recognise, and honour his outstanding contribution to the Indian literature.

The past recipients of the award have been V.S. Naipaul in 2012, and Mahasweta Devi in 2011.
  

Top Stories

Vertex Workspace wins ‘Best Innovative Enterprise Award 2024’

  •   21 hours ago    1

Leave a Comment

Title: Lifetime achievement award for Khuswant Singh



You have 2000 characters left.

Disclaimer:

Please write your correct name and email address. Kindly do not post any personal, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful or similar comments. Daijiworld.com will not be responsible for any defamatory message posted under this article.

Please note that sending false messages to insult, defame, intimidate, mislead or deceive people or to intentionally cause public disorder is punishable under law. It is obligatory on Daijiworld to provide the IP address and other details of senders of such comments, to the authority concerned upon request.

Hence, sending offensive comments using daijiworld will be purely at your own risk, and in no way will Daijiworld.com be held responsible.

You might also like