Ramesh Chandra Shah (English: Ramesh Chandra Shah, born November 15, 1937, Almora, Uttarakhand) is a famous Hindi novelist, playwright, essayist and skilled critic. You have received the Sahitya Akademi Award for the year 2014. He has also been awarded the prestigious ‘Vyas Samman’ in the year 2001 and ‘Padma Shri’ in 2004.
Writer Ramesh Chandra Shah was born on 15 November 1937 in Almora, Uttarakhand. Famous litterateur Dr. Ramesh Chandra Shah has received the Sahitya Akademi Award for 2014. Ramesh Chandra Shah has made his mark with many novels like ‘Gobar Ganesh’, ‘Kissa Gushlam’, ‘Purva Par’, ‘Chaak Par Ganesh’ and ‘Vinayak’. He has written many famous poems, story collections and travelogues. He was given the ‘Sahitya Akademi Award’ for his novel ‘Vinayak’.
When his novel ‘Gobar Ganesh’ was published 38 years ago, for the first time there was talk of giving him the Sahitya Akademi. After writing 78 books, the novel ‘Vinayak’ was considered worthy of Sahitya Akademi. During this period, Ramesh Chandra Shah wrote 78 books. Shah says, “My books were shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi on at least six occasions, but my only joy is that the novel ‘Vinayak’ for which I finally got the Sahitya Akademi was my first novel ‘Gobar. It is an extension of ‘Ganesha’ itself.”
Novels: Gobar Ganesh, Kissa Ghulam, Purva Par, Last Day, Punarvas and You don’t live anywhere, Vibhuti Babu.
Story collection: Fire in the forest, Ravana of the locality, Manpatra, Theatre, representative stories
Poem collection: Come on the turtle’s back, Harishchandra, the river came running, dear Muchkund, let’s see words also have their time, time on the wheel
Essay collection: In return for creation, In the name of devil, Peach tree, While reading, Swadharma and Kaalgati and in the world of Hindi.
Travel Memoir: A Long Shadow.
Interview: My Interview.
Criticism: Relevance of Chhayavad, parallel, Sabad Nirant, Vagarth, against forgetting, glory of Vagarth, Jaishankar Prasad, side of criticism, time conversation.
Drama: Mara Jai Khusro, Matiyaburj.
Translation: Rhymes and Birds (Hindi adaptation of Kathleen Rain’s poems) in English.
Ramesh Chandra Shah has his own arguments regarding the expansion of philosophy and thinking in his writings, “For the common Indian, knowledge means self-knowledge, not knowledge industry. Even the most common man has philosophical values. The same is true in me too. It will come in the creations also as a natural direction of life. Ramesh Chandra Shah is not tired even at this stage of age. Writing every day is a part of his daily routine, like any other activity in life, because Shah believes that his best work is yet to be written.
