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Fellowship for Manohar Prabhakar

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JAIPUR: The Bhopal-based Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism has awarded its prestigious fellowship to noted author and researcher Manohar Prabhakar for undertaking a critical study of Hindi journalism in Rajasthan during the post-Independence period.

The treatise authored by Dr. Prabhakar will form part of the university's ambitious project on the history of the language press in India during 1947-2005. The fellowship, carrying an honorarium of Rs.1 lakh, has been granted to the septuagenarian author for one year.

Dr. Prabhakar's book in Hindi on the rise and growth of journalism in Rajasthan received the coveted Bharatendu Award of the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in 1983. The I&B Ministry gave away the same award to him again in 2000 for authoring a book on the craft of journalistic writings.

Dr. Prabhakar, who was earlier Director of Public Relations, Rajasthan, has been awarded thrice by the State Government for meritorious writings.

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