A Kolkata based organisation “Bhartiya Bhasha Parishad” has honoured a young Bhojpuri poet Manoj Bhawuk for his Ghazal collections.

The name of his Ghazal collection book is “Tasveer Zindagi Ke”. This is the first time this honour has been given to Bhojpuri literature. Manoj Bhawuk had been awarded in a ceremony organised in kolkata..

This honour was given to him by Thumri legend Girija Devi and famous bollywood film director and lyricist Gulzar.

During the programme the award winners for the year 2005 were also honoured. Among them were Neelakshi Singh (hindi),Ajmer siddhu (Punjabi),Thoram Netrajit Singh (Manipuri), Hulol Nagpati (Kannad).

Other than Mr. Manoj Bhawuk,the other young poets who were honoured for the year 2006 were, Mr. Yatindra Mishra for Hindi, Mr. Shahid Akhtar for Urdu and Mr. Santosh Ichchkinnam for his contribution in Malayalam.


Describing the work of Mr. Manoj Bhawuk, Dr. Kusum Khemani of “Bhartiya Bhasha Parishad” ,said that, inspite of living in far away country Uganda and now in UK, Mr. Manoj Bhawuk is writing in Bhojpuri. His poems are deep rooted in cultural ground, like a plant with its roots in the Earth which gets its resources for life from its surroundings.

Dr. Khemani highly praised Mr. Bhawuk, for his creations and said that the young poet depicts the social affairs of life in bhojpuri phrases beautifully. She said that Bhartiya Bhasha Parishad is very proud to honour the young noble poet laureate , Mr Manoj Bhawuk.

During the ceremony Mr .Manoj Bhawuk said that “actually the honour of Bhojpuri language & literature is also honour of those hundreds of thousands of bhojpuri speaking people world wide who are wishing the great future of Bhojpuri”.