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Yudhvir award for Badri Vishal Pitti
Our Bureau
Hyderabad
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April 25
INDUSTRIALIST, art collector and social worker, the late Badri Vishal Pitti has been selected for the prestigious Yudhvir Memorial Award for 2005.
Mr Pitti took part in the Quit India Movement at the age of 14. During the Hyderabad Freedom movement, he went underground to organise `Hyderabad Radio'.
Born into a well-off businessman, Mr Pitti had taken up the cause of workers and led 29 labour unions.
Addressing a press conference here on Monday to announce the award, Mr Narendra Luther, former Chief Secretary of Andhra Pradesh and Chairman of Yudhvir Foundation, said the 14th edition of the award would be presented to Mr Pitti's kin on April 30, marking the birth anniversary of late Yudhvir.
Yudhvir was a freedom fighter and publisher-journalist. He was the founder of the leading Hindi newspaper Hindi Milap.
The award carried a citation and Rs 25,000 in cash.
Marking the fete, the Foundation would also announce two gold medals for students in the fields of journalism and nursing. On April 30, Mr Jyotirmaya Sharma, historian and Deputy Editor of The Hindu, would speak on `Art, Culture and Hindi'.
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