Kuber Nath Rai

Kuber Nath Rai
Born (1933-03-26)March 26, 1933
Matsa Village, Dildarnagar Kamsar, Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh, British India
Died June 5, 1996(1996-06-05) (aged 63)
Occupation Writer, essayist, scholar, poet
Nationality Indian
Notable works Gandha Madan, Priya neel-kanti, Ras Aakhetak, Vishad Yog
Notable awards Bharatiya Jnanpith

Kuber Nath Rai (March 26, 1933 – June 5, 1996) was a writer and scholar of Hindi literature and Sanskrit.

Career

Teaching career

From 1958 to 1986 he was in Nalbari College, Assam as a Lecturer in English Department. From 1986 to 1995 he was in Swami Sahajanand Saraswati PG College, Ghazipur, UP as a Principal. He got the Moortidevi Award from Bharatiya Jnanpith[1] and many awards from UP,[1][2] WB[1][2] and Assam Government.[1][2]

Writing career

Kuber Nath Rai dedicated his writing entirely to the form of the essay.[3]

His collections of essays Gandha Madan, Priya neel-kanti, Ras Aakhetak, Vishad Yog, Nishad Bansuri, Parna mukut have enormously enriched the form of essay.[3] A scholar of Indian culture and western literature, he was proud of Indian heritage.[3] His love for natural beauty and Indian folk literatures and preference for agricultural society over the age of machines, his romantic outlook, aesthetic sensibility, his keen eye on contemporary reality and classical style place him very high among contemporary essayists in Hindi.[3]

Main works

Anthologies of essays

Works on him

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Maheshwari, Suresh (1999). Lalita nibandhakāra Kuberanātha Rāya : vyaktitva-kr̥titva kī lalita ālocanā. Bhavana Prakashan. p. 192. ISBN 978-81-7667-000-5.
  2. 1 2 3 Tiwari, Vishwanath Prasad (2007). Bharatiya Sahitya ke Nirmata. Sahitya Akademi.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Datta, Amaresh Datta (1988). Encyclopaedia of Indian literature vol. 2. Sahitya Akademi. p. 914. ISBN 978-81-260-1194-0.
  4. "Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya". hindivishwa.org. Retrieved 2014-05-10.

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