Dr. Madhav Hada will be awarded the 32nd Bihari Puraskar for his 2015 literary criticism book ‘Pachrang Chola Pahar Sakhi Ri’, the KK Birla Foundation announced on September 29.
Key points
- Dr. Hada is a literary critic and academic. He has written extensively on literature, media, culture and history.
- He has also been a member of the general council of the Sahitya Akademi and the Hindi Advisory Board.
- He has been a recipient of the Bhartendu Harishchandra Award for Media Studies and the Devraj Upadhyay Award for Literary Criticism.
- The Bihari Puraskar is one of the three literary awards (Vyas Samman and Saraswati Samman are others two) instituted by the foundation in 1991.
- Named after famous Hindi Riti Kall poet Bihari, the award is given every year for an outstanding work published in the last 10 years by a Rajasthani author in Hindi or Rajasthani.
- It carries a cash prize of Rs. 2.5 lakh, a plaque and a citation.
