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Mohanjit (poet)

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Dr. Mohanjit is a Punjabi poet. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2018 for his poetry collection Kone Da Suraj.[1]

Biography

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Mohanjit is from village Adliwala, Amritsar district, Punjab, India.[2] His first poems were published in 1956. During the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971, his writings were published in Nagmani magazine under the title ‘Dispatches from the Western Front’.[2]

He is based in Delhi and was a lecturer at the Delhi University's Deshbandhu College.[2]

He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for the poetry collection Kone Da Suraj in 2018. In 2020, he announced that he had returned his award in support of the 2020-2021 Indian farmers' protest.[3]

Sahitya Akademi Award controversy

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Mohanjit said that he got the award at the late age of 80 because the gang that was controlling the Punjabi Sahitya Akademi Award was opposed to him.[4]

Works

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Collections of poems

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  • Sehkada Shehir
  • Ohle Ch Ojiara
  • Kone Da Suraj

References

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  1. ^ "..:: SAHITYA : Akademi Awards ::." sahitya-akademi.gov.in. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
  2. ^ a b c Bharti, Vishav (6 December 2018). "Sahitya Akademi Award for Mohanjit". The Tribune.
  3. ^ archive, From our online (2020-12-04). "Bhartiya Sahitya Akademi Award winners from Punjab return awards in support of farmers". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
  4. ^ Bharti, Vishav (10 December 2018). "Mohanjit-Akademi awards row nothing new, it started with Amrita Pritam".