Gujarat: Sahitya Academy to set up hoardings of 100 litterateurs
(WorldNews India)

With an aim to promote literature and acknowledge the contribution of authors and poets, the Gujarat Sahitya Academy (GSA) will set up hoardings at the native places of a 100 prominent litterateurs in the state and organise programmes centred on them, GSA Chairman Vishnu Pandya said on Friday. At a ceremony organised to confer the Zaverchand Meghani Lok Sahiyta Award and the Lokgayak Hemu Gadhvi Award, Pandya said there was a need to reinvigorate teaching and the learning of literature in universities of the state. `Are we teaching our students Zaverchand Meghani in his entirety? No doubt he was not merely an author, but a poet, a compiler-editor and a journalist but is that all? We are...