Government awards scholars for their contribution to Urdu literature

NEW DELHI: Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday gave away the annual awards to scholars for their contribution to Urdu literature in a ceremony held at Delhi Secretariat.
Prominent Urdu poet and critic, Sharib Rudaulvi, was awarded the All India Bahadur Shah Zafar Award for his works, while the All India Award for promotion of Urdu language and literature was conferred on noted Ghazal singers, brothers Ustad Ahmad Hussain and Mohammed Hussain.
G R Kanwal, who has published five anthologies of self-composed poems, was given the award for Urdu poetry, former Delhi University professor Atiqullah was awarded with Pandit Brij Mohan Dattaria Kaifi Award for his contribution as a critic. Wahajuddin Alvi, a professor in Jamia Milia Islamia, was given the award for research and criticism of Urdu language.
Among other awardees were Radhika Chopra, Ghazal singer, Shakeel Hasan Shamsi, journalist, Izhar Uzmi, writer and critic, and Anisur Rahman, and Urdu translator.