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| Prof Magotra conferred Sahitya Akademi award | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU , December 21 : Professor Lalit Magotra has been conferred the coveted Sahitya Akademi Award for the year 2011 in Dogri for his book Cheten Diyan Galiyan
Born in November, 1944 in Jammu, Professor Lalit Magotra is basically a physicist holding degrees of M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics (High Energy Physics) and retired as professor of Physics from University of Jammu .
He has more than 200 scientific publications (Physics) in International (Foreign) journals of highest repute and has spent about five years in European Countries in connection with his research in High Energy Physics.
He wrote his first short story in Dogri in the year 1972 and his first play in 1976. Since then Prof. Magotra has written prolifically in various genres of Dogri including short story, one-act play, stage-play, essays, travelogue, literary criticism etc. He has four books to his credit in Dogri.
The awarded book of Prof. Magotra “Cheten Diyan Ga’liyan” is a collection of 65 short personal essays which shows Professor Magotra as a cosmopolitan author rooted to the soil of his birth. The content of the essays is absorbing, informative and instructive.
Of the 65 essays, 30 are a commentary on the state of affairs around us. Of special interest are his autobiographical pieces, all 20 of them.
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