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| name = Rama Kant Shukla<br />
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| birth_place = [[Khurja]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], India<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|5|11|1940|12|24|df=yes}}{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}<br />
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| occupation = Sanskrit scholar and writer<br> Reader at [[Rajdhani College]], [[Delhi University]] (''Retired 2005'')<br />
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| parents = Shri Brahmanand Shukla<br>Smt. Priyamvada Shukla<br />
| awards = • [[Padma Shri]]<br>• [[Sahitya Akademi Award|Sahitya Akademi Award in Sanskrit]]<br>• [[Uttar Pradesh|UP]] State Award<br>• ''Sanskrit Rashtrakavi''<br>• ''Kaviratna''<br>''• Kavi Siromani''<br>• ''Hindu Sanskrit Setu''<br>• ''[[Kalidas Samman]]''<br>• ''Sanskrit Sahitya Seva Samman''<br>• ''Sanskrit Rashtrakavi''<br>• ''Akhil Bharatiya Maulika Sanskrit Rachana Puraskara''<br>• [[Rashtrapati Award|President]]'s Award<br />
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'''Rama Kant Shukla''' (25 December 1940 - 11 May 2022) was an Indian scholar of [[Sanskrit]] and [[Hindi]] languages.<ref name="Bhati Me Bharatam Episode-11 recited by Dr.Ramakant shukla">{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyA7oTqZ4dk | title=Bhati Me Bharatam Episode-11 recited by Dr.Ramakant shukla | publisher=YouTube | work=Video | date=25 May 2010 | access-date=27 October 2014}}</ref> The [[Government of India]] honoured him, in 2013, by awarding him the [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest civilian award, for his contributions to the fields of literature.<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><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Rama Kant Shukla was born on 25 December 1940, at Khurja city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.<ref name="Sanskrit">{{cite web | url=http://www.sanskrit.nic.in/ASSP/writer/rkshukla.html | title=Sanskrit | publisher=Government of India | date=2014 | access-date=27 October 2014}}</ref><ref name="Library of Congress">{{cite web | url=https://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/shukla.html | title=Library of Congress | publisher=Government of India | date=201 | access-date=27 October 2014}}</ref> His initial studies were in the traditional way as he learnt Sanskrit from his parents, Sahityacharya PANDIT Brahmanand Shukla and Smt. Priyamvada SHUKLA, and attained ''Sahitya Acharya'' and ''Sankhya Yoga Acharya'' degrees. Later, he joined [[Agra University]] and did MA in [[Hindi literature|Hindi]] with a gold medal and subsequently did MA in [[Sanskrit literature|Sanskrit]] from the Sampurnananda Sanskrit University. He also secured a Ph.D. in the year 1967. The topic of his Ph.D. was 'Jainacharya Ravishena- krita Padmapurana (Sanskrit) evam Tulasidas krita Ramacharitmanas ka tulanatmak adhayayan.<ref name="Bhati Me Bharatam Episode-11 recited by Dr.Ramakant shukla" /><ref name="Sanskrit" /><ref name="Library of Congress" /><br />
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Shukla started his career by joining the Multanimal Modi PG College in Modi Nagar in 1962 as a Hindi lecturer. After obtaining his PhD, he joined [[Rajdhani College]], [[Delhi University]], New Delhi as a Hindi faculty member on 1 August 1967. In 1986, he was appointed as the Reader of the Hindi Department and worked there till his retirement, in 2005.<ref name="Sanskrit" /><ref name="Library of Congress" /> He has participated in many seminars and conferences<ref name="Library of Congress" /> including the [[World Sanskrit Conference]].<ref name="Sanskrit" /> He has held the chair of All ''India Oriental Conferences'' on Indian aesthetics and poetry and Sanskrit literature and is the founder Chief Editor of the ''Arvacheena-Sanskritam'', a quarterly journal published by Devavani Parishad, Delhi,<ref name="Sanskrit" /> an organization he has founded.<ref name="Library of Congress" /> He has also participated in the ''[[All India Radio]] Sarvabhasha Kavi Sammelan'' representing Sanskrit language.<ref name="Library of Congress" /><br />
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He died on 11 May 2022 while travelling to the state of Jharkhand from Delhi by train, near Hari Nagar (Aligarh) in India.<br />
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==Books==<br />
Shukla has authored several books in Sanskrit and Hindi,<ref name="Library of Congress" /><ref name="Sanskrit poet and scholar Rama Kant Shukla reads from his works">{{cite book | title=Sanskrit poet and scholar Rama Kant Shukla reads from his works | publisher=South Asian Literary Recordings Project (Library of Congress) | author=Rama Kant Shukla | year=2000 | location=New Delhi | oclc=47738659}}</ref><ref name="Bharatajnataham ">{{cite web | url=http://www.vedicbooks.net/bharatajnataham-p-10862.html | title=Bharatajnataham | publisher=Vedic Books | date=2002 | access-date=27 October 2014 | author=Dr. Rama Kant Shukla}}</ref><ref name="Sārasvata-saṅgama">{{cite book | url=http://catalog2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&CMD=lccn+99956208&CNT=25+records+per+screen | title=Sārasvata-saṅgama | publisher=Jñānabhāratī Pablikeśansa | author=Dr. Rama Kant Shukla | year=2000 | location=New Delhi | lccn=99956208}}</ref><ref name="Bhāti me Bhāratam ">{{cite book | url=http://catalog2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&CMD=lccn+83906451&CNT=25+records+per+screen | title=Bhāti me Bhāratam | publisher=Devavāṇī-Pariṣad | author=Dr. Rama Kant Shukla | year=1980 | location=New Delhi | lccn=83906451}}</ref><ref name="Arvācīnasaṃskr̥tam">{{cite book | url=http://catalog2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&CMD=lccn+81910313&CNT=25+records+per+screen | title=Arvācīnasaṃskr̥tam | publisher=Devavāṇī-Pariṣad | author=Dr. Rama Kant Shukla | year=1979 | location=New Delhi | lccn=81910313}}</ref><ref name="Devavani-suvasah">{{cite book | title=Devavani-suvasah - Dr. Rama Kant Shukla felicitation volume | publisher=Devavani-Prakasanam | author=Dr. Rama Kant Shukla | year=1993 | isbn=978-8190030854}}</ref> He has also written and directed a Sanskrit television series, ''Bhati Me Bharatam'', telecast by [[Doordarshan]].<ref name="Bhati Me Bharatam">{{cite web | url=http://pawanalluru.blogspot.ae/2010/08/bhati-me-bharatam-ep16-by-drramakant.html | title=Bhati Me Bharatam | publisher=Pawan Alluru | date=1989 | access-date=27 October 2014}}</ref><ref name="Library of Congress" /><br />
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* {{cite book | title=Devavani-suvasah - Dr. Rama Kant Shukla felicitation volume | publisher=Devavani-Prakasanam | author=Dr. Rama Kant Shukla | year=1993 | isbn=978-8190030854}}<br />
* {{cite book | url=http://catalog2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&CMD=lccn+81910313&CNT=25+records+per+screen | title=Arvācīnasaṃskr̥tam | publisher=Devavāṇī-Pariṣad | author=Dr. Rama Kant Shukla | year=1979 | location=New Delhi | lccn=81910313}}<br />
* {{cite book | url=http://catalog2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&CMD=lccn+83906451&CNT=25+records+per+screen | title=Bhāti me Bhāratam | publisher=Devavāṇī-Pariṣad | author=Dr. Rama Kant Shukla | year=1980 | location=New Delhi | lccn=83906451}}<br />
* {{cite book | url=http://catalog2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&CMD=lccn+99956208&CNT=25+records+per+screen | title=Sārasvata-saṅgama | publisher=Jñānabhāratī Pablikeśansa | author=Dr. Rama Kant Shukla | year=2000 | location=New Delhi | lccn=99956208}}<br />
* {{cite book | title=Sanskrit poet and scholar Rama Kant Shukla reads from his works | publisher=South Asian Literary Recordings Project (Library of Congress) | author=Rama Kant Shukla | year=2000 | location=New Delhi | oclc=47738659}}<br />
* {{cite web | url=http://www.vedicbooks.net/bharatajnataham-p-10862.html | title=Bharatajnataham | publisher=Vedic Books | date=2002 | access-date=27 October 2014 | author=Dr. Rama Kant Shukla}}<br />
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Shukla lives in New Delhi attending to his duties as the ''Shastra Chudamani Vidwan'' at the ''Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan''.<ref name="Sanskrit" /><br />
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==Awards and recognitions==<br />
Rama Kant Shukla is a recipient of ''Sanskrit Rashtrakavi'', ''Kaviratna'', ''Kavi Siromani'' and ''Hindi Sanskrit Setu'' titles by various literary organizations.<ref name="Library of Congress" /> He has also been awarded the titles such as ''[[Kalidas Samman]]'', ''Sanskrit Sahitya Seva Samman'' and ''Sanskrit Rashtrakavi''.<ref name="Sanskrit" /><ref name="Library of Congress" /><br />
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The Uttar Pradesh government has honoured Dr. Shukla with the state award while he has also received the ''Akhil Bharatiya Maulika Sanskrit Rachana Puraskara'' from the Delhi Sanskrit Academy.<ref name="Library of Congress" /> The President of India awarded him the ''Sanskrit Scholar'' award in 2009<ref name="Sanskrit" /> and the [[Government of India]] followed it up with the civilian award of [[Padma Shri]], in 2013.<ref name="Padma 2013" /> He is the founder president of Bhartiya Sanskrit Ptrakar Sangh.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}<br />
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Rama Kant Shukla was awarded the [[Sahitya Academy Award|Sahitya Academy Award in Sanskrit]] for ''Mama Janani'' in 2018 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/pdf/sahityaakademiawards2018.pdf|title=Sahitya Akademi Award 2018|date=5 December 2018|website=sahityaakademi.gov.in|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181205151530/http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/pdf/sahityaakademiawards2018.pdf|archive-date=5 December 2018}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{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}}<br />
* {{cite web | url=http://www.firstpost.com/topic/cricket/u-r-ananthamurthy-sanskrit-chhand-varanavritta-recited-by-dr-ramakant-shukl-video-2X6GcE5Seg0-116109-1.html | title=Sanskrit Chhand (Varanavritta) recited By Dr. Ramakant Shukla | publisher=First Post | work=Video | date=27 October 2014 | access-date=27 October 2014}}<br />
* {{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyA7oTqZ4dk | title=Bhati Me Bharatam Episode-11 recited by Dr.Ramakant shukla | publisher=YouTube | work=Video | date=25 May 2010 | access-date=27 October 2014}}<br />
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