VK Shukla, the extraordinary Hindi writer who captures the ordinary
- Shruti Sonal
- TNNUpdated: Apr 02, 2025, 15:47 IST IST
Shukla, who just won the Jnanpith, wears his awards lightly but the quiet simplicity of his poetry and prose have catapulted him to cult status. So much so that he's also acquired a fair share of millennial and Gen-Z fans
Shashwat Gopal was on his way to pick up his daughter from an exam when he received the phone call that his father, the celebrated poet-novelist Vinod Kumar Shukla, had been awarded the Jnanpith Award. But the response from his dada, as he calls his 88-year-old dad, was muted. “Dada doesn’t get too excited about these things. Most of his awards lie in a box, not on display,” says Gopal.
