Dr. Chanchal Basin awarded Hindi Writers’ award for ‘HASHIYA’ a translation of Dogri book ‘Hashiye par’
Jammu, August 22: Daughter of the soil, Dr. Chanchal Basin, a prominent Hindi writer and translator was awarded with ‘Hindi Writers’ award for her excellent work of Hindi translation of a of a famous Dogri book ‘Hashiye par’ for the year-2017 by Govt. of India, Central Hindi Directorate, Ministry of Human Resource Development, (Department of Higher Education). For this National Honour, the writer, who is a Post Graduate in Hindi as well as Dogri and presently working as senior Lecturer of Dogri in Higher Education, was awarded with Rs 100,000/- and a certificate.
The translation of the Dogri Book ‘Hashiye par’ relates to a fine piece of articulation of the Social issues, reflected in the book by its author Sh. Shailender Singh, presently SSP Crime Branch Jammu. The book is a fine piece of Dogri literature, which was also published in English in 2014 by the Oxford University Press. The book has also won the highest literary award of India – The Sahitya Academy Award-2017 for its content and literary quality.
