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Kusumagraj literature award for Ved Rahi

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Source : Times of India     Film director and novelist Ved Rahi has been selected for prestigious Kusumagraj national award for literature. Instituted by the city-based Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU), the Kusumagraj Rashtriya Sahitya Puraskar carries cash prize of Rs one lakh, a memento and a citation. Rahi will be handed over the award at a function to be held at the YCMOU soon, the varsity stated in a release. The award is instituted after Jnanpith-laureate Marathi poet and playwright late V V Shirwadkar, popularly known as Kusumagraj. Born in Jammu in 1933, Rahi has penned seven novels in Dogri language. He was given Sahitya Akademi award for his Dogri novel, ‘Aale’ in 1983. A prolific writer, he also wrote in Hindi and Urdu languages. Rahi also made the film ‘Veer Savarkar’ (2001), a biopic on the life of revolutionary Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. Rahi has written dialogues for several Bollywood movies, including ‘Bejuban’‘Charas’, ‘Mom ki Gudiya’ etc.
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