Laxmi Shanker Bajpai
Laxmi Shanker Bajpai, is an Indian who is a prominent poet of Hindi Ghazal Movement. He has represented as the only Indian poet in the World Poetry Festival in Venezuela. He has been invited for poetry reading by ‘Bharatiya Jnanpith’, Sahitya Akademy, National Book Trust, SAARC Writers’ Conference, and the French Poetry Festival in India. His poems have been published in many reputed national and International literary magazines. The poems have been translated in Japanese, English, Italian, Tamil, Dogri, Assamese, Punjabi and numerous other languages.
He has participated in various poetry reading events across 15 cities of U.K.(2010), Antarrashtriya Vaataayan Kavita Samman’ in London and an exclusive evening of poetry ‘Rashtrabhasha Gaurav Samman’ by Sansdiya Hindi Parishad in Central Hall of Parliament.
He has been Awarded by Delhi Hindi Academy and Dalit Sahitya Academy, Udbav Shikhar Samman and many others. He is also the author of more than a dozen Text-Book units on Broadcasting for Graduate & P.G. courses of IGNOU. He has been associated with 6-7 Universities as a guest faculty, Examiner, Paper-Setter etc. for Media studies. He has done the scripting and anchoring of many documentaries for Doordarshan (India). He has also been the narrator in various T.V. serials. He has been involved in scripting of many radio documentaries & radio serials and anchoring of many radio programs on national (Indian) network. He has also interviewed many renowned personalities for national network of All India Radio.
He has been conferred with various awards such as Bhartendu, Harishchandra Samman which was conferred by Publication Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Kusumanjali Sahitya Samman & have the honor of ABU Jury Member for Radio Pre – Selection (ABU Prizes 2014). He has also visited Moscow as Govt. of India’s Nominee (EA Ministry) to participate in the Regional Hindi Conference.
