Suraj Parkash Sahitya Ratan Award to Literary Veterans at 7th GLFN

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Suraj Parkash Sahitya Ratan Award to Literary
Veterans at 7th GLFN
New Delhi The second edition of Suraj Parkash
Marwah Sahitya Ratan Award for the veteran
writers was the part of 7th Global Literary
Festival Noida 2021on the first day itself. If
you dont have time to read, you dont have time
to write simple as that. You should write because
you love the shape of stories and sentences and
creation of different words on a page. Writing
comes from reading, and reading is the finest
teacher of how to write. Read thousand books and
your words will flow like a river, said Sandeep
Marwah President of Marwah Studios and 7th Global
Literary Festival Noida 2021 at the award
function. The event started by honouring
Lifetime Achievement Award to distinguished
writer Pratap Sehgal who has been in writing for
more than fifty years. He is the celebrated name
in Hindi play wright.
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Renowned Poets and fiction writers Pankaj Mitr,
Rakesh Tiwari, Ashok Arora, Neeraj Neer, Vibha
Rani, Jaywardhan (J.P.Singh), Kumar Anupam and
Gunveer Rana were honored with prestigious Suraj
Parkash Marwah Sahitya Ratan Award for their
untiring contribution to the literary World who
all were individually introduced by the festival
Director Sushil Bharti. All the popular writers
spoke their heart out and thanked Asian Academy
of Arts and its allied agencies for bestowing
upon this prominent and esteemed award. Later a a
book titled Khawabon Ke Saat Rang written by
Alok Shukla was released by the dignities. Known
writer Jeet Bhatt and many other writers attended
the session along with the young writers and film
makers from Asian Academy of Film and Television.
The event was supported by World Peace
Development and Research Foundation,
International Public Broadcasting Forum, Radio
Noida and MSTV. The Suraj Parkash Marwah Sahitya
Ratan Award has been titled after the name of a
well-known Nationalist Late Shri Suraj Parkash
Marwah, a freedom fighter from Peshawar who had
sacrificed a lot to promote love, peace and unity
through art and culture.