Balram Shukla Explained

Balram Shukla
Birth Date:1982 1, df=yes[1]
Birth Place:Maharajganj, Uttar Pradesh, India
Occupation:Professor, Poet
Genre:Sanskrit, Indian literature
Language:Sanskrit, Persian, Prakrit
Alma Mater:University of Delhi

Balram Shukla (Hindi: बलराम शुक्ल; born 19 January 1982)[1] is an academician, poet and author based in New Delhi.[2] He is a self-taught scholar of Sanskrit and Indian literature.[2] He works as a professor of Sanskrit at the University of Delhi. He is a scholar of Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, Persian and Prakrit.[3] [1] He writes poetry in both Sanskrit and Persian,[3] and also translates Persian poetry into Sanskrit using the same poetic metres.[2] He has been awarded the Badrayan Vyas Award for Sanskrit in 2013 by the President of India.[4] He has authored eight books.

Life

Shukla hails from Sohrauna Raja village in Maharajganj, Uttar Pradesh.[5] His father is a retired school teacher. His initial education was at Maharajganj.[6] He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Gorakhpur and Master of Arts degrees in Sanskrit and Persian from University of Delhi.[6] Shukla topped in both subjects and received the C D Deshmukh gold medal.[6] Shukla then received a PhD in Sanskrit grammar from the University of Delhi.[6] Shukla took up research in Persian after completing his research in Sanskrit.[2]

Since 2004, Shukla has taught in various colleges affiliated to the University of Delhi, including Hindu College and Hans Raj College.[1] Currently, he is a professor in University of Delhi's Department of Sanskrit.[1]

From 2020 to 2022, he was a research fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS) Shimla. He worked on the topic, "प्राकृत कविता के चारुत्व के भाषिक प्रयोजक". His project aims to identify and explicate those linguistic peculiarities of Prakrit languages which have been exploited by poets to embellish their poetry and transcend the beauty of prior literature.

From 2023 to 2026, he will serve as the director of Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre, Tehran, Iran with diplomatic rank of First Secretary.[7] [8] [9]

Recognition

Shukla is recognized as one of the foremost young scholars of Sanskrit today.[2] He is well known in India and Iran for his knowledge of Sanskrit and Persian, his expertise in Sanskrit grammar, and his poetry in Sanskrit.[2] He often translates Persian poetry into Sanskrit in the same metre as the original.[2]

Shukla has translated 100 Ghazals of Rumi along with several appendices, directly from Persian into Hindi. The book was recently launched in Iran's Art Bureau in the presence of the author.[10] Literary critics have immensely praised the book for being a pioneering work in Hindi and as a model for translation. From a review in The Hindu : "The book is a model of how translations of poetic works should be presented so that the readers may become familiar not only with the beauty of the poetry but also the richness of the literary traditions of that language, history of translations, meaning of words and basic principles of its grammar."[11]

Shukla's Persian odes have recently been collected in a volume called "Haft Shaair az Fardaa" which contain sample-poems of 7 non-Iranian young Persian poets.[12]

Awards and honours

Shukla has been conferred many honours.[2] Some of these are

Views

Shukla believes that Sanskrit and Persian have around 350 similar words, owing to their common origin.[2] Shukla says that the influence of some Persian poets like Rumi and Hafez Shirazi is seen in the poetry of several Indian languages including Sanskrit,[2] as well as on Persian poets from India like Bedil Dehalvi.[2] Regarding Sanskrit poetry, Shukla believes that even today, Sanskrit poetry is being composed in the same metres and on the same topics as in Vedic times, and that India has poets who can compose poetry like Valmiki and Vyasa even today.[2]

Works

Books

Example poetry

Shukla's symmetrical (in the same metre) translation into Sanskrit of the opening couplets of Rumi's Masnavi, along with the 1898 English translation by Edward Henry Whinfield:[2]

A Sanskrit verse by Shukla:[2]

Notes and References

  1. Sharma. Jeevan. संस्कृतवाणी. Delhi. विद्वत्परिचयः. 1. 15. Introduction to a scholar. 1 November 2014. Sanskrit. 2. 2349-0586. RNI No. DELSAN/2014/55803. Srinivas Sanskrit Vidyapeeth.
  2. Joshi . Sunil . Sharma . Richa . Singh . Rekha (hosts) . Vaartavali: Sanskrit News Magazine . Vaartavali . Sanskrit . . 19 November 2016 . 5 March 2017 . ज्ञानार्जनक्षेत्रे भूयो भूयः कृतश्रमः संस्कृतफ़ारसीभाषयोः गहनाध्येता विद्वान् अद्यास्ति अस्मदीयः त्रिज्यातिथिः। युवसंस्कृतविद्वद्भ्यः उपकल्पितेन महर्षिबादरायणव्याससम्मानेन सभाजितः डॉ.बलरामशुक्लः अत्र उपस्थितोऽस्ति। संस्कृतजगति युवविद्वत्सु वरेण्यः, संस्कृतव्याकरणभाषाविज्ञानविशारदः, बहुभाषाप्रवीणः, संस्कृतकविषु प्रथितयशाः, गहनानुसन्धाता च विराजते डॉ.बलरामशुक्लः। ज्ञानदानस्य पुण्यकार्यं विदधानः विद्वान् एषः प्रतिष्ठितेन महर्षिबादरायणव्याससम्मानेनापि गौरवान्वितोऽस्ति। संस्कृतपारसीकभाषयोः पटुत्वेन ईरानदेशेऽपि लब्धकीर्तिः बहुमानभाजकश्च डा. बलरामशुक्लः अद्य संवादाय अस्मदीयविशेषातिथिरूपेण अत्र उपस्थितोऽस्ति।.
  3. Bharatiya. Chandragupta. संस्कृतसंवादः. Delhi. डॉ.बलरामशुक्लः पारसीकस्नातकोत्तरे सुवर्णपदकं लभते. 2. 26. Dr. Balram Shukla gets gold medal in Persian masters. 16 July 2012. Sanskrit. 1. RNI No. DELSAN/2011/38660 DL(E)-21/5379/2011-2013.
  4. News: Prez Gives Certificate of Honour to Language Experts. 17 January 2014. 18 February 2017. Outlook India.
  5. News: डा.बलराम शुक्ल को मिला राष्ट्रपति सम्मान. Hindi. Dr. Balram Shukla gets President's Award. 4 February 2014. 18 February 2017. Dainik Jagran.
  6. News: डॉ.बलराम शुक्ल को महर्षि बादरायण व्यास सम्मान. Hindi. Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman for Dr. Balram Shukla. 18 August 2013. Dainik Jagran. Gorakhpur.
  7. Web site: डा. बलराम शुक्ल ईरान के सांस्कृतिक राजदूत नियुक्त . 2023-02-03 . m.rashtriyasahara.com.
  8. Web site: Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre, Tehran, Iran Official website of Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Government of India . 2023-02-01 . iccr.gov.in.
  9. Web site: गोरखपुर के डॉ. बलराम ईरान में सांस्कृतिक राजदूत नियुक्त . 2023-02-03 . Hindustan . hindi.
  10. Web site: Rumi's Ghazals in Hindi. 18 August 2018. Financial Tribune. 2 June 2019.
  11. News: Rumi in Hindi. Kumar. Kuldeep. 23 May 2019. The Hindu. 2 June 2019. 0971-751X.
  12. Web site: دانلود کتاب و کتاب صوتی با طاقچه. طاقچه. fa. 2 June 2019.
  13. Web site: प्रताप नारायण मिश्र युवा साहित्यकार सम्मान के लिए 6 साहित्यकार चयनित. www.patrika.com. 4 September 2017 . hindi. 2 June 2019.
  14. Web site: कालिदास सम्मान से नवाजे गए डा. बलराम शुक्ल. Dainik Jagran. hi. 2 June 2019.
  15. Web site: The Hitavada. 2021-12-16. The Hitavada.
  16. News: बलराम शुक्ल को महाकवि कालिदास संस्कृतव्रति राष्ट्रीय पुरस्कार . 1 . Rashtriya Sahara . 8 October 2022.
  17. News: राष्ट्रीय पुरस्कार से सम्मानित हुए प्रो बलराम . १ . Hindustan . 8 October 2022.
  18. News: https://www.tasnimnews.com/fa/news/1398/10/24/2181770/%D8%B3%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%87-%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%A2%DB%8C%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C-%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%B1-%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%88-%D9%85%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%B1-%D8%B4%D8%AF-%D8%B2%D8%B9%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%88-%D8%B5%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%84-%D8%B4%DA%A9%D9%84%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D9%87-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B1%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%AF. fa. fa:سروده‌های آیینی شاعر هندو منتشر شد/ «زعفران و صندل» شکلا به ایران رسید- اخبار فرهنگی - اخبار تسنیم. Hindu poet's ritual poems published / Shakila's "saffron and sandal" arrived in Iran - Cultural News - Tasnim News. 14 January 2020. Tasnim News Agency.

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