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Rajasthan Urdu Academy confers Media award on Jaipur’s litterateur

The Rajasthan Urdu Academy has conferred its annual prestigious ‘Bedil Bikaneri’ Media Award on Jaipur’s Chand Mohammed Sheikh, a senior journalist and litterateur for his outstanding work.

Rajasthan Urdu Academy confers Media award on Jaipur’s litterateur

Chand Mohammed Sheikh, a senior journalist and litterateur (photo:SNS)

The Rajasthan Urdu Academy has conferred its annual prestigious ‘Bedil Bikaneri’ Media Award on Jaipur’s Chand Mohammed Sheikh, a senior journalist and litterateur for his outstanding work.

In his statement, the Academy’s President Hussain Raza Khan said the award carrying a cash prize of Rs.11,000 will be presented to Chand and others at the academy’s special award ceremony in Jaipur on August 14.

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Popularly known as Chand, the litterateur has authored five books and has an active career of decades as literary editor of a vernacular national newspaper.

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