‘Acharya’ Sarangdhar

Born: 31 January 1960

• He is a teacher, Hindi writer, poet, essayist, story writer, and scholar.
• He penned numerous books on Hindi ‘vyakaran’, essays, poems and is a regular columnist in various Hindi and Bhojpuri magazines published from India and abroad.
• Besides Hindi, he is a master of many languages including Sanskrit and Bhojpuri.
• As a student of Sanskrit, steeped in the Sastras, he gave a new elevation to Sahitya-Shastra and he can rightly be considered as a great analyst of Hindi literature.
• He has been conferred with Vidyasagar Award in 2011 for his outstanding contribution to Hindi literature.
• D. Litt ( Vidyasagar Award) – Vikramshila Hindi Vidyapeeth Gandhinagar, Gujarat awarded him with D. Litt degree for his extraordinary contributions in the field of Hindi Literature.
• Kameshwar Singh Darbhanga University Darbhanga, Bihar awarded him with a Ph.D. degree for his research work on a comparative study of Sanskrit and Bhojpuri Vyakaran.
• He is awarded the ‘Samman Patra (सम्मान पत्र)’ from the commissioner of Saran, S.P Saran and Buddhijeevi Vichar Mantra Chhapra for his book ‘Shabd Vigyan’.

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