New Delhi, January 28, 2025 – Eminent Hindi poet and writer Govind Mishra and renowned Gujarati poet, playwright and critic Sitanshu Yashashschandra will be honored for their overall lifetime contribution to writing and life, with the highest honor ‘Akashdeep’ established by leading
Hindi news group Amar Ujala.Born on August 19, 1941 in Kutch, Gujarat, Sitanshu Yashashchandra, has been selected for his unmatched contribution to the modern art and literature of Gujarati language while Govind Mishra, born on August 1, 1939 in Banda, Uttar Pradesh, has been selected for this honor for his unique contribution in the field of Hindi writing.
Till now Kannada, Marathi, Bengali, Oriya and Malayalam have been taken along with Hindi under Akashdeep. This
year Gujarati has been selected.
For non-Hindi Indian languages, Girish Karnad, Bhalchandra Nemade, Shankh Ghosh, Pratibha Rai,
MT Vasudevan Nair and in Hindi, Namvar Singh, Gyan Ranjan, Vishwanath Tripathi, Shekhar Joshi and Vinod Kumar Shukla have been awarded Akashdeep.
Yashwant Vyas, group advisor of Amar Ujala and coordinator of Shabd Samman, stated that Amar Ujala Foundation had started Shabd Samman in 2018 in the background of the collective dream of Indian languages.
The highest ‘Akashdeep’ award is offered to each litterateur of Hindi and other Indian languages. The award includes an amount of Rs 5 lakh each, a citation and the Ganga statue as a symbol. Along with this, the best literary works (shreshtha kriti) of the year are also honored, which also includes the Bhashabandhu Award for translation to highlight the participation between languages.
Yugal Joshi, Dhruv Shukla, Jyoti Chawla, Kinshuk Gupta and Subhash Neerav to get shreshtha kriti samman
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Shabd Samman has also been announced for the best Hindi works published in the year 2023 under Amar Ujala Shabd Samman-2024.
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In the ‘chhaap’ category, Jyoti Chawla’s collection ‘Yeh Unindi Raton Ka Samay Hai’ has been chosen as the best work in the In the fiction category Yugal Joshi’s novel ‘Agnikal’ and in the non-fiction category, Dhruv Shukla’s work ‘Wa Ghar Sabse Nyara’ will be honored as the ‘Shreshtha kriti’ of the year. ‘Thap’, award for the first book of any writer, will be given to Kinshuk Gupta for his work ‘Yeh Dil Hai Ki Chor Darwaza’. The ‘Bhasha Bandhu’ Award for translation in Indian languages will be awarded to Subhash Nirav for the Hindi translation of ‘Tum Kyun Udas Ho’ (Punjabi original: Kulbir Badesaron).
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These awards include an amount of Rs 1 lakh each, a citation and the Ganga statue as a
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A high-level jury comprising eminent poet Alok Dhanwa, renowned storyteller Sanjeev, renowned critic Vagish Shukla, senior writer-editor Vishwanath Sachdev and renowned storyteller Akhilesh has tested these works on their own
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Amar Ujala Shabd Samman will be presented at a ceremony
