Young hill poet chosen for Sathiya Academy award

D.K. Waiba

Kalimpong March 5: A budding young hill poet Manoj Bogati has been selected for the ‘Sahitya Academy’ award 2012, the highest award in the country. The decision to award Bogati was taken at the executive meeting of the Sathiya Parishad in Calcutta today. Bogati will be receiving the award for his recent book on poems in Nepali called the ‘Ghaw ka Rang”.

Sources from the Parishad said that Bogati will be awarded with the award on March 22 at the Vivekananda Institute of Culture stationed at Guwahati. “The book was penned in the year 2008 and was published in the same year.  I am happy that the award has been conferred to me. The award means a lot in my career as a poet,” said Bogati speaking to journalists in Kalimpong.

Bogati is a journalist by profession with a vernacular daily published from Sikkim and is also a recipient of the awards like Abijman Smiriti in Kuwait and Deokata Smriti Swarnapadhak  in Kathmandu in Nepal.

Sources from the literary industry of Darjeeling hills have welcomed the decision to confer the award to Bogati. “This would be a source of inspiration for the budding hill talents in the field of Nepali literature,” said a literary figure in the hills.

Sources from the literary industry of Darjeeling hills have welcomed the decision to confer the award to Bogati. “This would be a source of inspiration for the budding hill talents in the field of Nepali literature,” said a literary figure in the hills.