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| birth_name = Radhika Jayakar
| birth_date = 1938
| birth_place = Uttar Pradesh, India
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| occupation = Educationist and writer
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| spouse = Hans Herzberger
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| parents = Manohar Jayakar<br/>[[Pupul Jayakar|Pupul Mehta]]
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'''Radhika Herzberger''' (née '''Jayakar'''; born 1938) is an Indian writer, educationist and scholar in [[Sanskrit literature|Sanskrit]] and [[Indology]].<ref name="Good News">{{cite web | url=http://www.goodnewsindia.com/index.php/Magazine/story/rvalley/P3/ | title=Good News | publisher=Good News | date=2014 | access-date=26 October 2014}}</ref> She lives in [[Rishi Valley School]], in the [[Chittoor district]] of [[Andhra Pradesh]], and serves as the Director of Rishi Valley Education Centre, an educational institution founded by [[Jiddu Krishnamurti]] in 1982.

==Biography==
She was born as Radhika Jayakar in Uttar Pradesh, to Manohar Jayakar and [[Pupul Jayakar]] (née Mehta), cultural activist and biographer of [[Jiddu Krishnamurti]] and [[Indira Gandhi]], in 1938. After obtaining a doctorate from the [[University of Toronto]],<ref name="Rishi valley profile" /> she joined Rishi Valley Education Centre<ref name="Rishi Valley Education Centre">{{cite web | url=http://www.rishivalley.org/default.html | title=Rishi Valley Education Centre | publisher=Rishi Valley Education Centre | date=2014 | access-date=26 October 2014}}</ref> as an instructor in History,<ref name="Rishi valley profile">{{cite web | url=http://www.rishivalley.org/school/faculty.htm | title=Rishi valley profile | publisher=Rishi valley | date=2014 | access-date=26 October 2014}}</ref> eventually becoming the Director of the institution.<ref name="Good News" /><ref name="Rishi valley profile" /><ref name="TOI">{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Gandhis-revisit-Jiddu-legacy/articleshow/3424011.cms | title=TOI | publisher=TOI | date=30 August 2008 | access-date=26 October 2014}}</ref>

==Publications==
Radhika Herzberger has published a book, ''An Essay in the Development of Fifth and Sixth Century Indian Thought'', as a part of Indian Classical Studies.<ref name="Book">{{cite web | url=https://www.amazon.com/Bhartrhari-Buddhists-Development-Century-Classical/dp/9027722501/ref=la_B001JXLXFI_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1414332431&sr=1-1 | title=Bhartrhari and the Buddhists: An Essay in the Development of Fifth and Sixth Century Indian Thought (Studies of Classical India) | publisher=Springer | date=30 April 1986 | access-date=26 October 2014 | author=Radhika Herzberger | pages=284 | ISBN=978-9027722508}}</ref>

She has also published articles in journals such as the ''Indian Journal of Philosophy''.<ref name="article 2">{{cite web | url=http://www.india-seminar.com/2011/627/627_radhika_&_kumaraswamy.htm | title=Independent Schools as Resource Centres | publisher=India Seminar | date=2014 | access-date=26 October 2014 | author=Radhika Herzberger and A Kumaraswamy}}</ref><ref name="Article">{{cite web | url=http://www.india-seminar.com/2001/500/500%20radhika%20herzberger.htm | title=Living lightly on earth | publisher=India Seminar | date=January 1990 | access-date=26 October 2014 | author=Radhika Herzberger}}</ref><ref name="Article 3">{{cite journal | url=http://philpapers.org/rec/HERBP | title=Bhartrhari's paradox | author=Hans G. Herzberger, Radhika Herzberger | journal=Indian Journal of Philosophy | year=1981 | volume=9 | issue=1 | pages=1–17}}</ref>
* {{cite web | url=http://www.india-seminar.com/2011/627/627_radhika_&_kumaraswamy.htm | title=Independent Schools as Resource Centres | publisher=India Seminar | date=2014 | access-date=26 October 2014 | author=Radhika Herzberger and A Kumaraswamy}}
* {{cite web | url=http://www.india-seminar.com/2001/500/500%20radhika%20herzberger.htm | title=Living lightly On Earth | publisher=India Seminar | date=January 1990 | access-date=26 October 2014 | author=Radhika Herzberger}}
* {{cite journal | url=http://philpapers.org/rec/HERBP | title=Bhartrhari's paradox | author=Hans G. Herzberger, Radhika Herzberger | journal=Indian Journal of Philosophy | year=1981 | volume=9 | issue=1 | pages=1–17}}

==Awards==
The [[Government of India]] honoured her, in 2013, by awarding her the [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest civilian award, for her contributions to the fields of literature and education.<ref name="Padma 2013">{{cite web | url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=91838 | title=Padma 2013 | publisher=Press Information Bureau, Government of India | date=25 January 2013 | access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Pupul Jayakar]]
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==References==
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* {{cite web | url=https://www.amazon.com/Bhartrhari-Buddhists-Development-Century-Classical/dp/9027722501/ref=la_B001JXLXFI_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1414332431&sr=1-1 | title=Bhartrhari and the Buddhists: An Essay in the Development of Fifth and Sixth Century Indian Thought (Studies of Classical India) | publisher=Springer | date=30 April 1986 | access-date=26 October 2014 | author=Radhika Herzberger | pages=284 | ISBN=978-9027722508}}

==External links==
* {{cite web | url=http://www.theindianpanorama.com/2013/04/08/president-confers-padma-awards/ | title=Padma Awards List | publisher=Indian Panorama | date=2014 | access-date=12 October 2014}}
* {{cite web | url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/jiddu-krishnamurti-was-one-of-worlds-greatest-religious-revolutionaries-pupul-jayakar/1/288881.html | title=India Today interview | publisher=India Today | date=31 May 1995 | access-date=26 October 2014}}
* {{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP0j4Qw5MsI | title=Krishnamurti, chronicles of a less ordinary life | publisher=YouTube video | date=25 February 2012 | access-date=26 October 2014}}

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