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looks like the award was create just to honour him
Lokmanya Tilak award for Vir Sanghvi
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Vir Sanghvi, one of the best-known faces of Indian journalism and Advisory Editorial Director of Hindustan Times will be the first recipient of the Lokmanya Tilak National Award for Excellence in Journalism instituted by the Kesari-Maratha Trust.
The Trust was founded by Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak in 1881.
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Kesari was started by Tilak to rouse public opinion against India's colonial rulers. Recalling that Tilak had even been jailed by the British for his writings, Deepak Tilak said: “The award is intended to strengthen the tradition of fearless journalism that Tilak represented.”
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