Sahitya Akademi today honoured the famous Hindi poet and story writer Vinod Kumar Shukla with its highest honour, Mahattar Membership. Due to health reasons, this brief honour ceremony was held at his Raipur residence. This honour was given by Sahitya Akademi President Madhav Kaushik and Secretary K Srinivas Rao. After receiving the honour, Vinod Kumar Shukla said that he is thankful to Sahitya Akademi for coming to his home to give him this honour. He had never expected that he would receive such a big honour. I am very happy to find myself among the important writers who have received this membership so far. On this occasion, he also recited two of his poems.
Sahitya Akademi President Madhav Kaushik said that this is a rare occasion to feel proud because by honouring Shukla ji, the Akademi is also honouring itself. He further said that Shukla ji’s writing is so vast and excellent that the coming generations will always be inspired by it. Secretary Keshri Nivas Rao, while reciting the eulogy in his honour, said that Vinod Kumar Shukla is a creator who has created a wonderful combination of poetry and fiction. His works are soft and shimmering like the narrative of a memory, reading which gives the pleasure of feeling a strange peace. In this regard, Vinod Kumar Shukla is counted among the best writers of our time.
It is known that Vinod Kumar Shukla, born on 1 January 1937 in Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, found such an affinity towards nature during his studies of agriculture that it further led to concern for the protection of nature and ultimately the protection of the human species. His good wish for a better life and society of humans is the basic tone of his creativity and also the central concern.
Vinod Kumar Shukla, who started his creative journey with the poetry collection ‘About Jai Hind’, has created a completely new aesthetic sense of poetry and prose through the poetry collections published in the book ‘That man has gone away’, ‘Wearing a new warm coat like a thought’, ‘Everything will remain to be, not in excess’, ‘The longest poem of the poem’, ‘The sky knocks on the earth’, ‘After some time’, ‘Now’, and novels like ‘The servant’s shirt’, ‘If we see that it will bloom’, ‘There used to be a window in the wall’, and story collections like ‘The hut with the green grass roof’ and ‘Dwarf mountain’, ‘Yasi Rasa Ta’, ‘A silent place’, ‘Room on the tree’, ‘Mahavidyalaya’, ‘A story’, ‘The horse’ and other stories’, whose inner recesses give a sattvik taste when one enters and gets lost in them.
You have been decorated with many prestigious awards like Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh Fellowship, All India Bhavani Prasad Mishra Award, Srijan Bhartiya Award, Raghuveer Sahay Memorial Award, Shikhar Award, National Maithilisharan Gupt Award, Sahitya Akademi Award, Rachna Samagra Award and Hindi Gaurav Award.
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