Cultural Academy terms Agni Shekhar’s refusal as unfortunate

by Scoop News    January 29, 2012

           Jammu, January 29 (Scoop News) –   J&K Academy of Art, Culture and Languages today expressed surprise over the refusal of Dr. Agni Shekhar to accept Best Book Award, which was announced by the Academy in April 2011.

            Incidently, soon after the Academy invited book entries for the prestigious Best Book award competition Dr. Agnishker Shekhar himself filed an application for consideration in Hindi language for his book “Jawahar Tunnel”.

            And when after following due process and scrutiny by three independent experts, the Academy announced the award and he was conferred upon the honour, Dr. Shekhar very proudly appeared on Doordarshan and expressed happiness on having been conferred upon the prestigious award.

            Reacting to the news of Dr. Shekhar’s refusal the official spokesperson of the Academy termed it as unfortunate and said that this should not have happened. He also added that if Dr. Shekhar had to refuse this purely literary award, which was announced a year back, he should not have competed for the prize in the first place.

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