Instituted in 2004, Vatayan awards are given to two eminent Hindi writers annually.
This year, the eminent journalist and linguist Rahul Dev and the well-known fiction writer Manisha Kulshrestha will be felicitated in the presence of Virendra Sharma; MP, Anil Sharma Joshi, Amish Tripathi, Mira Mishra-Kaushik, OBE, Dr Beena Sharma, and Dr Nandita Sahu.
Participants: Dr Padmesh Gupta, Divya Mathur, Vibhuti Shah, Shikha Varshneya, Titiksha Dand-Shah, Ashish Mishra, and Astha Dev.