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?Decline? of Hindi literature worries author fraternity
BHAGWAN DAS Morwal was awarded the Kathakram national award for the year 2006 for his novel: ?Kaala Pahaad? at a simple function held on Saturday evening at Rai Umanath Bali. It was the 14th ceremony in the series.
BHAGWAN DAS Morwal was awarded the Kathakram national award for the year 2006 for his novel: ‘Kaala Pahaad’ at a simple function held on Saturday evening at Rai Umanath Bali. It was the 14th ceremony in the series.
Morwal was awarded under the aegis of ‘Anand Sagar Smriti Kathakram Samman’. Senior litterateur Shrilal Shukla, who is also the trustee of the award giving committee, along with famous Hindi story writer Rajendra Yadav granted the award to the awardee. This award is given for good literary stories in Hindi.
Renowned hindi littérateurs, vis-à-vis Shailendra Sagar, Kamla Prasad, Rajendra Yadav, and the senior most Shrilal Shukla were present at the occasion.
Senior literary critic Professor Kamala Prasad and young critic Shambhu Gupta threw light on the creativity of the writer of the award-wining novel. The revised edition of the novel ‘Wajid Ali Shah’, published in 1960, was also released the same day. The novel is one of the early recipients in the series of ‘Anand Sagar Smriti Kathakram Samman’.
A seminar took place after the felicitation function. The topic of the discussion was ‘Contemporary Hindi stories and literature, changing values and experiments’. Renowned storywriter and editor of ‘Hans’ Rajendra Yadav, was the chief speaker. In the chairing panel were Mudra Rakshas, Parmanand Srivastava, Giriraj Kishore and Chandrakant of the awarding giving committee.
The novel is in colloquial Hindi, thus, had drew the criticism of many. Purists like Shrilal Shukla complained about the fact that the esteem of Hindi language was taken for granted but in the same vein commented that the way the writer had made his characters speak colloquial Hindi to convey his ideas was commendable. He said in times when writers deals with illiterate characters, is a creative challenge and was boldly faced by Morwal.
Rajendra Yadav commented that good literature was history. The elite class hardly had time to read literature and serious literature was suffering from ‘paradigm shift’.
He also lamented the sorry state of Hindi language when it is granted the status of National Language and yet is in a pathetic condition. He wished the Government to take serious steps to promote new and upcoming writers in Hindi.
