Javed Akhtar to receive Namdeo Dhasal Samashti award

MUMBAI: Poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar will be conferred with the Namdeo Dhasal Samashti Award for his contribution to literature and language at a function here on Friday, the city-based Samashti Foundation announced.

Akhtar will receive the award during the Samashti Art and Literature Festival which will be held on April 11 and 12 at the Annabhau Sathe Auditorium at Byculla in Central Mumbai.

The festival, organised in the memory of renowned Marathi poet and Dalit activist Namdeo Dhasal (1949-2014), is now in its eighth year.

Source: PTI News

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