Himanshu Bajpai
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Himanshu Bajpai (born 12 June 1987) is a dastango, music artist and author. He plays a stage form of storytelling in the Urdu-Hindi language known as dastangoi.
His book ‘Kissa Kissa Lucknowa-Lucknow ke Awami Kisse’ received the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar-2021.[1] He is also the recipient of the 2023 Shri Harikrishna Trivedi Youth Award.[2]
He was born on June 12, 1987, in the Raja Bazaar area of Lucknow. He holds a PhD degree from Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya, Wardha, and his thesis focuses on the historic Nawal Kishor Printing Press of Lucknow.[3][4]