World Harmony and Peace Run Torch Bearer Award to Mani Sankar Mukherjee August 2011

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On August 26th, 2011, the members of the Peace Mediation Group at the UN were happy to be present when the celebrated Bengali writer Mani Sankar Mukherjee, was honoured . The Author’s pen name is Sankar. Former Bangladesh Ambassador to the United Nations Anwarul Karim Chowdhury presented Mani Sankar with the World Harmony Run Torch-Bearer award. Ambassador Chowdhury, a long-time friend of Mani Sankar, is also Former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the UN and a 2010 recipient of the award.

Over a period of nearly sixty years, Sankar has written 87 books. In the 1970s, two of his books were made into acclaimed films by the renowned director Satyajit Ray. Sankar’s recent books contain insights into the lives of Bengal’s spiritual luminaries — Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo and, most recently, Sri Chinmoy.

Sankar holds the World Harmony and Peace Run torch with Executive Director Salil Wilson and Ambassador Chowdhury. Sankar was in New York on the occasion of Sri Chinmoy’s 80th birth anniversary which coincided with the release in Kolkata of his biography of Sri Chinmoy “Achena Sri Chinmoy” (The Unknown Sri Chinmoy).