Dr. Harish Naval (born 8 January 1947) is working with the
Indian Council for Cultural Relations
The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), is an autonomous organisation of the Government of India, involved in India's global cultural relations, through cultural exchange with other countries and their people. It was founded on 9 Apri ...
, under the Ministry of External Affairs (Government of India) as chief editor of the international literary journal ''Gaganachal''.
He retired as professor of Hindi literature at
Hindu College and he was the head of the department of
Hindi
Hindi ( Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been ...
.
Naval has authored several Hindi books, articles and screenplays for television.
Work
He worked as a professor of
Hindi literature
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at Hindu College,
University of Delhi
Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate university, collegiate Central university (India), central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and ...
, and he was the head of Hindi department.
He has authored 26 books all of them in Hindi.
*Has been the literary adviser (Hindi) to the
India Today
''India Today'' is a weekly Indian English-language news magazine published by Living Media India Limited. It is the most widely circulated magazine in India, with a readership of close to 8 million. In 2014, ''India Today'' launched a new o ...
magazine.
*Has also served as a consultant for Hindi Programming on the
NDTV
New Delhi Television Ltd is an Indian news media company focusing on broadcast and digital news publication. The company is considered to be a legacy brand that pioneered independent news broadcasting in India, and is credited for launching t ...
news channel.
*Visiting speaker at
Sofia University
Sofia University, "St. Kliment Ohridski" at the University of Sofia, ( bg, Софийски университет „Св. Климент Охридски“, ''Sofijski universitet „Sv. Kliment Ohridski“'') is the oldest higher education i ...
, Bulgaria.
*Visiting speaker at
Tokyo University
, abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by ...
and
Osaka University, Japan.
*Held the position of head examiner and professor at Mauritius University.
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*He is editor of Hindi magazine Gaganachal ( गगनांचल)This magazine is for NRI's and reaches the Indian consulate in various countries.][ ]
Naval has been awarded more than 12 National Level Literary Prizes including Yuva Jnanpeeth Prize, Govt of India's ‘Gobind Ballabh Pant Prize’, Sahity Kala Parishad Puruskar, Vyangy Shri Samman and ‘Urvashi Puruskar. He has been felicitated in Washington by Antar Rashtriya Hindi Samiti Chapter, by ‘Arya Samaj New York USA and Hindi Speaking Union Mauritius.
Naval has represented India as a Hindi author in international literary seminars and cultural trips to 46 countries.
Awards
Recipient of the Yuva Janapith Puruskar (prize) for his first book ''Bagpat Ke Kharbuje''.
He has also received other awards such as "Madhyam Puruskar", "Sahiya Mani", "Jainendra Kumar Samman", "Fiqra Tauswin Award", "Balkan ji Bari International Award" and so forth.
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Academic staff of Delhi University
Living people
Hindi-language literature
1947 births