Pratibha Agrawal awarded the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize
New Delhi, Aug 7 : The Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize 2017 for Hindi was conferred on veteran scholar-translator Pratibha Agrawal here on Tuesday.
The Sahitya Akademi awarded her for her Hindi translation of author Sombhu Mitra's "Abhinay Natak Manch" in the "Rangmunch" genre. The original title is in Bengali.
Born in 1930, Agrawal is a renowned theatre scriptwriter, director, actor and translator. She is the director of Natya Shodh Sansthan, a Kolkata-based archive covering the history of Indian theatre, founded in 1981.
Agrawal has to her credit translations of Henrik Ibsen's 'Janata ka Shatru' (1959), Rabindranath Tagore's 'Shesh Raksha' (1963), Badal Sircar's 'Evam Indrajit' (1969), and Utpal Dutt's 'Tin ki Talwar', among others.
She is a Ratna Sadasya (1975) of the Uttar Pradesh Sangeet Natak Akademi, and has been honoured for her literary work by the Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan (1989), the Madhya Pradesh Sahitya Parishad (1993), and the Bharatiya Anuvad Parishad (1997).
She received the Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 2005 for her overall contribution to Indian theatre.
Due to ill health, Agrawal could not attend the official award-giving ceremony in Guwahati on June 22, Akademi Secretary K. Sreenivasa Rao said at the event.
The annual award consisting of a plaque and Rs 50,000 was instituted in 1989 for recognising outstanding translations in 24 languages.
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PBKS captain Shreyas Iyer fined for slow over rate vs CSK
Chennai (PTI): Punjab Kings skipper Shreyas Iyer was fined Rs 24 lakh for maintaining a slow over-rate during his team’s IPL 2026 match against Chennai Super Kings at the MA Chidambaram Stadium here.
The last season's runners-up PBKS secured their second sucessive win, defeating five-time champions Chennai Super Kings by five wickets here on Friday.
As this was Punjab Kings’ second offence of the season under Article 2.22 of the IPL Code of Conduct, which relates to minimum over-rate violations, the penalty was enhanced and Iyer was fined Rs 24 lakh, said the IPL media advisory.
"The rest of the members of the Playing XI, including the Impact Player, will be fined either INR six lakhs or 25 per cent of their respective match fees, whichever is lesser," it added.
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