Dr. Priyanka Vaidya is the winner of many awards including the prestigious State Academy award in English literature from Himachal Academy of Arts Culture and Languages. She is posted as Associate Professor in Dept. of English at Himachal Pradesh University, Summerhill, Shimla.
Dr. Vaidya is a poet, story writer and researcher. She has twelve books to her credit. Her published work includes five poetry books, three research books, three story books and one poetic novel. Lotus Rises in Mud, Lockdown Diary and Gulmarg Gulzar Hoga have been well received by both the critics and readers. Her latest published work includes Kavya upanyaas Aanandi and a poetry book When Cuckoo Sings in Himalayas. Aanandi is the first poetic novel of Himachal Pradesh and it talks about Indian womanhood. She believes in the principle of "Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah."
She remains actively involved in the field of research. She has contributed more than 100 research papers of national and international acclaim and has been awarded many times for her work in the field of literature. She has also presented papers on Diaspora and Karmayoga at international conferences in the UK. She believes," Pen can dive deep into human psyche and explore various paths by writing destiny and future of the nation."
Awarded with Utkrisht Seva Samman 2014 by Akhil Bhartiya Harijan League, Woman Achiever Award by Indian Women Convention, Writer for the year 2016, Yuva Srijan Samman 2016 by Himalaya Sahitya Evam Sanskriti Manch, Awarded by honourable Governor of Himachal Pradesh for representing India abroad in 2016, Woman ICON of the year award at International Women Empowerment Conclave (IWEC) PURNIA 2017, Impact Maker Award at IWEC PURNIA 2017, Sahitya Shree Samman 2018 at International Writers Festival-Indore.
We are very happy to present 'Carnival of Stories', the anthology of short stories by Himachali writers writing in English. Dr. Priyanka Vaidya has done a commendable job by putting this rich volume together. The anthology, without doubt, meets the standard set by Robust Graves who said, "A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders and may be used as much for preservation as cure."
I am sure you would love these tales and go back to these again and again. Samuel Johnson said, 'a writer only begins a book, a reader finishes it.' Finish these tales of life which have been penned by the most well known creative writers of Himachal.
I congratulate Dr. Priyanka Vaidya and the H.P. Academy of Arts, Culture and Languages for this important contribution to the rich literary heritage of the State.
The present anthology Carnival of Stories brought out by Himachal Pradesh Academy of Arts, Culture and Languages and edited by Dr. Priyanka Vaidya, Associate Professor, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, deal with the society in the inexorable grip of transition. Some of the stories explore the beauty as well as the brutality of life and circumstances and show that the characters have also remained rooted in the tradition, in spite of undesirable factors, while being transformed with the passage of time. The editor who has already enriched the criteria and dimensions of English and Hindi literature through her creative writing, particularly story-telling and poetry, deserves all appreciation for working so hard in compiling and reading these stories with a feel and zeal of literary sensibility and human sensitivity. Consequently, she has rightly carved a niche for herself with critically acclaimed literary fiction and is all set to be marked as a professional writer of perennial passion. Besides, all the story writers deserve congratulations on being included in this significant anthology. Dr. Priyanka Vaidya is the writer of twelve books, she is a poet and a story-teller, and she has contributed more than hundred research papers of national and international acclaim. Recently she won State Award in the category of English literature. The two anthologies of Himachali story writers under a project in 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav' are entitled Hatu and Carnival of Stories.
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