By NNN-PTI,
Guwahati, India : Noted litterateur Indira Goswami has been conferred with the Netherlands’ prestigious Principal Prince Claus Award for her work in Indian culture and its development, but the writer is all the more happy for another reason.
The 2000 Jnanpith Award winning writer, the first Indian to win the Euro one lakh (approximately Rs 64 lakh) award, had a dream of setting up a hospital in her native village in Assam’s Kamrup district.(One Lakh:100,000)
“It is a great honour. This has come as a blessing in disguise,” Goswami told PTI. “With the prize money I received, my dream will finally become true,” said the former Delhi University teacher in Modern Indian Languages.
She had decided to donate the award money for setting up of a hospital in Amranga village in Mirza. “The hospital will come up under the welfare project of the Nemcare Group,” she said.
“It was my father’s wish to have a good hospital at Amranga. But due to paucity of funds, it had remained a dream,” the Sahitya Akademi Award winner said.