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Balram Shukla

Balram Shukla
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Balram Shukla
Born (1982-01-19) 19 January 1982 (age 35)
Maharajganj, Uttar Pradesh, India
Occupation Professor of Sanskrit
Language Sanskrit, Persian, Prakrit
Nationality India
Alma mater University of Delhi
Genre Sanskrit, Indian literature

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

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

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

Shukla is recognized as one of the foremost young scholars of Sanskrit today. 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. He often translates Persian poetry into Sanskrit in the same metre as the original.


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