More Vinod Kumar Shukla news: he's won the Jnanpith Award, one of India's most prestigious awards. The official site for the award doesn't seem to have been updated yet, though it's in a bunch of news stories out of India.

(Also! Literary Activism has put out an Indian edition of Treasurer of Piggy Banks. You can go there and read translator Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's introduction to Treasurer of Piggy Banks, as well as another piece he wrote about the poet.)