Sangeeta Gundecha of city was conferred with Krishan Baldev Vaid Fellowship.
The famous poet-writer hailing from city of lakes Sangeeta Gundecha has been given Krishan Baldev Vaid Fellowship for writing a story. This fellowship is given by the Himachal Culture Research Institute and Rangamandal under the name of the great writer of Hindi, Krishna Baldev Vaid.
Vaid is a Hindi fiction writer and playwright, noted for his experimental and iconoclastic narrative style.His literary works have been translated and published in English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Japanese and several Indian languages
The fellowship is bagged by Sangeeta Gundecha for the year 2017, Geet Chaturvedi from Bhopal for 2018 and Sharmila Bohra Jalan for 2019 from Kolakata.
Fellowship has been announced by the Himachal Culture Research Institute and the founder of Rangamandal and the director of National School of Drama, Shree Suresh Sharma.
It is to be noted that Sangeeta Gundecha is a well known young Hindi writer and Sanskrit Scholar from Bhopal. She has published books of poetry and short stories called 'Aikant ka Manchitra'.
She has translated Japanese poet Shuntaro Tanikawa and few other poets in Hindi.
She has also published several books on lndian drama. She has received Bhas Samman, Bhoj Puruskar, Kala Sadhna Samman
and Sanskrit Bhushan Samman among others. Sangeeta Gundecha expressing her contentment said that she is extremely happy to recieve the fellowship.