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Uday Prakash was born on 1 January, 1952 in Anuppur, Madhya Pradesh, India, is an Indian journalist and author (born 1952). Discover Uday Prakash's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?
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1 January, 1952 |
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Anuppur, Madhya Pradesh, India |
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India
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Uday Prakash Height, Weight & Measurements
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Uday Prakash Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Uday Prakash worth at the age of 72 years old? Uday Prakash’s income source is mostly from being a successful journalist. He is from India. We have estimated Uday Prakash's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Uday Prakash (born 1 January 1952) is a Hindi poet, scholar, journalist, translator and short story writer from India.
He has worked as administrator, editor, researcher, and TV director.
He writes for major dailies and periodicals as a freelancer.
He has also received several awards for his collection of short stories and poems.
Prakash was born on 1 January 1952, in the backward village of Sitapur, Anuppur, Madhya Pradesh, India.
He was raised by and given primary education there by a teacher.
He graduated in Science and obtained his master's degree in Hindi Literature, receiving a Gold Medal from Saugar University in 1974.
From 1975 to 1976, he was a research student at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU); He was imprisoned as a passionate communist party member.
He later lost interest in political ideology.
In 1978 Prakash taught as an assistant professor at JNU, and its Imphal Center for Post Graduate Studies.
In 1980 he left academia, to become Officer-on-Special-Duty with the Madhya Pradesh Department of Culture.
At the same time, he was Controlling Officer of the Bhopal Rabindra Bhawan, and assistant editor of Poorvagraha, a journal of Hindi literary criticism.
(He was later critical of the Hindi literary establishment including Ashok Vajpeyi, who he worked for at Poorvagraha.)
From 1982 to 1990, Prakash worked in New Delhi newspapers; first as a subeditor of the Hindi news weekly Dinmaan, and later as Assistant Editor of the Sunday Mail.
In 1987 becoming assistant professor at the School of Social Journalism (on deputation).
In 1990 he joined ITV, (Independent Television), and became head of the PTI TV Concept and Script Department.
Since 1993, he has been a full-time freelance writer.
Prakash was the editor of the monthly English language magazine "Eminence" (published in Bangalore) until April 2000.
He also participated in the international poetry festivals and seminars.
He has also made documentary films with Sahitya Akademi, like on Dharamvir Bharti.
Peelee Chhatri Wali Ladki (2001) is Prakash's best known, and longest continuous story.
Often called a "novella", Prakash calls it "a long short story" – Cheeni Baba will be his "first novel".
His 2006 novella Mohan Das has been translated into English, seven Indian languages, and adapted by the author for the "Mohandas" screenplay (2009).
He is most famous as a short story writer, with well-known work like Warren Hastings ka Saand, and its stage version by director Arvind Gaur.
Prakash has translated works by many International poets and writers into Hindi, including Pablo Neruda, Federico García Lorca, H. Luis Borges, Paul Éluard, C.P. Cavafy, Adam Jędrzejewski, and Tadeusz Różewicz.
His translation of Milorad Pavić's novel Landscape painted with tea is forthcoming.
Translations of Prakash's work
He is read in all Indian languages, and his translated fiction regularly features in English and German collections, magazines, and complete texts:
'Sahitya Akademi film's on writers
Prakash has produced several films about important Hindi writers such as Ram Vilas Sharma.
With Mohan Das he received Sahitya Academi Awards in 2011.
He is the first author to return his Sahitya Akademi award on Sep 3, 2015 against the killing of M. M. Kalburgi that initiated a storm of national protests by writers, artists,scholars and intellectuals.
Prakash returned his Sahitya Akademi award in 2015, to protest the murder of rationalist academic M. M. Kalburgi.
In an interview, Varun Grover, the lyricist of the 2015 movie Masaan, recounted that they had wanted to use one of Uday Prakash's compositions titled "Kuch ban jate hain" (from Abootar Abootar).
