Tuesday, January 5, 2016

MM Memorial Prize 2015

Announcement: Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize 2015
 
We are delighted to announce that Dr Nishat Haider, Associate Professor, Department of English Modern European Languages, University of Lucknow, has been awarded the Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize 2015, for her paper "Framing Dalit: A Study of Satyajit Ray's Sadgati", published in the 2015 Special Topic Issue "Satyajit Ray" Vol. 36 No.1 of the South Asian Review. Our warmest congratulations to Nishat.

The MM Prize is awarded to the Best Paper published by a member of the IACLALS, in the year preceding the conference (2015-2016). This year's Meenakshi Mukherjee Prize was judged by a panel of 3 distinguished  judges: Professor Radhika Mohanram (Cardiff University, U.K.), Professor Akshaya Kumar (Panjab University, Chandigarh) and Professor Senath Walter Pereira (University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka and Chairperson the Sri Lankan branch of ACLALS ).
 
There were 8 entries for the Prize, Siddhartha Chakraborti and K. Purushotham's papers were also ranked high in a closely judged contest, and we would like to congratulate them as well.
 
We would like to thank our judges for taking the time to evaluate the essays, and the also the IACLALS members who honoured Meenakshi Mukherjee by submitting their work for the Prize. The Meenakshi Mukherjee Prize will be formally awarded to Dr Nishat Haider at the IACLALS Annual Conference 2016 to be held at Kakatiya University– Warangal, later this month.
 

Rina Ramdev
Secretary IACLALS

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Thanks & Regards:

Abu Saleh
PhD Research Scholar @ Centre for Comparative Literature (CCL)
School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad (UoH), India.
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