1. Vishnu Pandya is a journalist, biographer, poet, novelist, writer and political analyst from Gujarat, India.
13 Facts About Vishnu Pandya
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Vishnu Pandya has been the chairman of Gujarat Sahitya Akademi since 2017.
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Vishnu Pandya has been active in journalism for the last 40 years.
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Vishnu Pandya was born in Manavadar in Junagadh State.
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Vishnu Pandya's father had worked in South Africa before his return to India after World War II.
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Vishnu Pandya started his career with Sadhana weekly, later became an editor of it at the age of 22.
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Vishnu Pandya was honored by the All Indian Newspapers Editor for protest on censorship during the Indian Emergency.
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Vishnu Pandya managed to publish the magazine and wrote against the censorship.
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Vishnu Pandya was appointed the chairman of the Gujarat Sahitya Akademi in May 2017.
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Vishnu Pandya's writing has various subjects from political criticism and analytic to history research.
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At that time his first book, Haheli nu Aakash, was appreciated by the Gujarat Government and won a prize, but Vishnu Pandya did not accept the prize.
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Vishnu Pandya received Narmad Suvarna Chandrak from Narmada Sahitya Sabha for historical writing in 1991.
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Vishnu Pandya was awarded Padma Shri in 2017 for literature and history.