He taught Sanskrit and Linguistics at Universities in Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Berkely, and Seattle. Equally facile in Sanskrit and Hindi and its dialects, Dr. Miśra wrote with a deep knowledge of the Culture and Customs of India and of the folk wisdom of India. His critical as well as emotionally charged evaluations of the Rāmāyana and the Mahabharata were essays in recognition of the true Values of India and its deeply symbolic Mythology.
He has been honored with several awards and distinctions including Padma Bhushan, Padma Shree, Moorti Devi Award of Bharatiya Jnänpith, Shankar Puraskar of K.K. Birla Foundation, Bharat Bharati Samman, Visva Bharati Sammän by Uttar Pradesh Sanskrit Akademy, Maharashtra Bharati Sammãn, and the highest honor of the Sahitya Akademi, to name a few.
Dr. Misra has published more than eighty books in the fields of literary criticism, language and linguistics, literary and critical essays and poetry including The Descriptive Technique of Panini (Mouton), Follow the Note of Flute (Sahitya Akademi), Environment and Creativity (Sahitya Akademi), Modern Indian Thought, The Great Indian Mind, etc. He was nominated by the President to the Rajya Sabha in 2003.
In spite of this distinguished career he always lived simply and practiced the traditional values he wrote so eloquently about. He made himself available to everybody in need with a generous spirit of help and understanding, and as a Father figure to his students, was often known as Guruji or Babuji.
Ratna Lahiri studied for her Ph.D on Human Values in Modern Hindi Literature under the guidance of Professor Vidyaniwäs Misra and went on to teach at the University Of Delhi. Her deep interest in Ancient Indian Cultural values is reflected in her contributions to the Encyclopedias of Indian Literature (Sahitya Akademi), Encyclopedia of Hinduism and to the translated summaries of source materials in the Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophy (MLBD). Dr. Lahiri taught Indian Studies at the Asian Center at the University of Philippines in Manila and subsequently worked at the University of South Carolina and briefly at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her forthcoming publications include a critical translation and analysis of the two existing Filipino versions of the Rama story, which she wrote as a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced.Study in Shimla, and a Biography of Amala Shankar.
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