The Kusumanjali foundation organised its 5th Hindi and Malyalam Kusumanjali Sahitya Samman award ceremony. The award-giving ceremony was held on August 1 at the India International Centre. Prof. lokesh Chandra, president Council for Cultural Relations presented the awards.
The Kusumanjali foundation give two awards every year to works specialising in any genre of Indian literature. This year Kusumanjali sahitya samman 2016 has been given to the most respected hindi writers Kusum Khemani and MP Veerendra Kumar. The awards carries a cash prize of `2.50 lakh each, citation, a shawl and statuette.
Various famous personality of this field were invited in the ceremony named, the chair person of the foundation kusum ansal, govering body indra nath chaudhary , secretary body HK Kaul , jury member and famous journalist Alok Mehta and Malyam board member C Radhakrishnan .
Kusum Khemani was awarded for her published hindi novel named "lavanya devi"..Over the years, through her works, Khemani has brought out multiple aspects that governs the life of a woman. She has also been the Secretary of the Indian language Society for the last 30 years. MP veerendra kumar was also awarded for his novel name'' Daunbe sakshi".Veerendrakumar, a recipient of the prestigious Sahitya Akademi award, has been associated with the literary, cultural and political landscape of Kerala for the last six decades, the foundation said in a statement.
In some cases history does not happen, its created said by Indranath Chaudhry.