Hindi litterateur Shrilal Shukla dead
October 28th, 2011 - 6:12 pm ICT by IANSLucknow, Oct 28 (IANS) Leading Hindi litterateur and Jnanpith awardee Shrilal Shukla died here Friday following a brief illness, hospital sources said.
Shukla, 86, who had earned huge fame for his popular ‘Rag Darbari’, was admitted to the hospital earlier this month.
Credited with many other books and novels, he was also the recipient of the prestigious Padma Bhushan in 2008.
Shukla joined the Provincial Civil Service shortly after independence in the late forties and was later elevated to the elite Indian Administrative Service from where he retired in 1983.
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