Named as winner of the Shantidoot (ambassador of peace) award of the Meerut-based World Peace Movement Trust, Feroze Patch (pictured) will receive a certificate and gold medal for promotion of secularism without gender bias. The 69-year-old is trustee and honorary secretary of the Hindustani Prachar Sabha (HPS), an educational NGO (nongovernmental organization) founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1942 to promote Hindustani, the common man’s language. "This was to be a link between Urdu and the high flown Hindi, and serve as a link language between Hindus and Muslims, thus promoting communal harmony,” Patch informed Parsiana over the telephone.
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