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About Ratnakar Narale
Ratnakar was born in Nagpur and lived in a small town called Katol where his
father was a farmer plus a lawyer. He did BSc from Nagpur University, MSc from
Pune University, PhD from IIT, Kharagpur and PhD from Kalidas Sanskrit
University. He was working at FCI, Namrup, Assam, India when he came to Canada
in 1969 with eight Dollars in his pocket. Today, in 2022,
eighty years old and a Brain Hemorrhage Survivor, Ratnakar is fully active
in teaching Hindi and Sanskrit at various institutions and promoting Bharatiya
Sanskriti in the world. His musical and literary works are blessed by such great
souls as Atal Vihari Vajpayi, PM of India; Basdeo Pandey, PM of Trinidad and
Tobago; Dr. Murli
Manohar Joshi, Federal HRD Minister of India; Ashok Singhal, President, VHP;
Bharat Ratna Ustad Dr. Bismillah Khan Trust, Padmabhushan Ustad Sabri Khan,
Padmavibhushan Amjad Ali Khan, Padmashri Ustad Ghulam Sadiq Khan, Ustad Rashid
Mustafa Thirakwa, Farukaabad Gharana; Smt. Sushma Swaraj, Min. External Affair,
Govt. of India; Shri Yogi Adityanath, CM of UP, India, etc. and he has received
numerous honors in Canada and from India.
Prof.
Ratnakar
Narale is one individual in Canada who is promoting Hindi, Sanskrit, Music and
Bharatiya Sanskriti through Classes, Journalism and vast number of published
Books, for last 53 years. Since year 1970, he has been teaching Hindi, Sanskrit,
Music, Gita and Ramayan to young and old
Indian Diaspora from
Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad, Surinam, Fiji and to the descendents of Indian
people living in Canada, as well as the local Canadian English Speaking
non-Indian people. He has taught Hindi in all three Universities of Toronto and
in the Toronto District School Board and York Board of Education. He has taught
Sanskrit and Gita in many private Institutes including the legendary Hindu
Institute where he was the Pradhanacharya. He has educated his students and
brought them to the Indian roots.
In 70’s when
there were no Personal Computers, he produced hand written and typed educational
material for his classes. When the Xerox machines became popular, his capacity
increased. In 80’s when IBM personal Computers and Data Processing Softwares
became popular, his efficiency sky rocketed and he founded “Pustak Bharati,” a
Publishing and Copyright Plus company.” He developed Devanagari fonts with
complete Devanagari compound characters, stand alone vowel signs and symbols,
Indian music score codes and accentuation marks for Roman transliteration in
order to typeset his own Hindi, Sanskrit and Music books complete with English
transliteration and music notations. His special Indian Language fonts include
Sarasvati Hindi font, Ratnakar Sanskrit font, Canada
English Transliteration font, Vanakam Tamil Font, Narale Gurumukhi font and
Namaste Urdu Nastaliq and Naskh fonts.
In 90’s
World-Wide-Web became popular and Pustak Bharati designed Free Online Hindi
Lessons for the Hindi learners across the Globe. These free and priceless
lessons became so popular at one time that his website had over a million
visitors per year. He won National and International awards, including
“Hindu-Ratna” Award from the Govt. of Canada, “Hindi Vishva Samman” from Govt.
of India, and “Sangitacharya” Samman from the Canadian Hindu Mission Centre.
Today, (1) his
precious titles in Hindi Literature include:
सारेगम संगीत गुरु, हिंदू राजतरंगिणी, अठारह महापुराण
विद्या, कालिदास के आठ महाकाव्य, भवभूति के तीन महाकाव्य, कालिदास के शकुन्तला की
छंद मीमांसा, कालिदास के मेघदूत की छंद मीमांसा, कालिदास के ऋतुसंहार की छंद
मीमांसा, शंकराचार्य के विवेकचूडामणि की छंद मीमांसा, श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता की छंद
मीमांसा, गीता का शब्दकोश और अनुक्रमणी, गीता ज्ञानकोश, गीता दोहावली, बालकृष्ण
दोहावली, राधाकृष्ण दोहावली, काव्य कृष्णायन, काव्य रामायण, रामायण दोहावली, शिवाजी
चरित्र दोहावली, संगीत श्रीसत्यनारायण व्रत कथा, पातंजल योगसूत्र दीपिका, गीत
रत्नाकर, मेरे भजन, इत्यादि.
The
शकुन्तला की छंद मीमांसा, मेघदूत की छंद मीमांसा, ऋतुसंहार की छंद मीमांसा,
विवेकचूडामणि की छंद मीमांसा और गीता की छंद मीमांसा
are
his most precious books on prosody. This
छंद
मीमांसा
trend initiates a new faculty in Sanskrit Literature.
(2) His most popular books written for the English Speaking people are :
The Thorough Devanagari Teacher,
Sanskrit Primer,
Sanskrit Teacher All-in-One,
Sanskrit Grammar and Reference Book, Critical Research into Bhagavad-Gita, Hindi
Teacher for Hindu Children,
Learn Hindi Through English Medium,
Tamil Teacher,
Urdu Teacher,
Gurumukhi Teacher,
Bengali Teacher,
Marathi Teacher,
etc.
Contributions :
Ratnakar Narale's four major contributions are :
(1) Sowing seeds of Hindi Language in people through classes, books, articles
and journals in order to provide everlasting benefits.
(2)
On one hand he has developed effective and innovative educational materials and
on the other hand he has published educational and cultural books to help people
in India and the Indian Diaspora from Mauritius, Trinidad, Guyana, Suriname,
Fiji etc.
(3) He is spreading love for Indian culture outside India and assisting these
people to come back into Indian society, making their future generations India
lovers. The belief behind this auspicious work is that each seed of rich
Bharatiya Sanskriti you sow will grow in to a tree and its seeds will then
spread further and further for ever. In last 53 years he taught Hindi, Sanskrit,
Music, Gita and Ramayan to thousands of children, youth and adults.
Educational :
BSc.
Nagpur University, India (1963)
MSc.
Pune University, India (1965)
DIIT, IIT Kharagpur, India (1966)
Ph.D. IIT Kharagpur, India
(1969)
Ph.D. KK Kalidas Sanskrit University, Nagpur, India (2004)
Sanskrit Adhyapak Prashikshan, Sanskrit Bharati, New Delhi (2005)
Prof.
Hindi. Ryerson University, Toronto Canada (from 2009)
Prof.
Hindi, Toronto University, Toronto, (2008-2009)
Prof.
Hindi, York University, Toronto, (2007)
Prof. Hindi. Toronto School Board (From 2002)
Prof. Sanskrit, Hindi Institute, Toronto (from 1995)
Chief Editor, Pustak Bharati Research Journal, Toronto, Canada (2019)
Chief Editor, Bharat Saurabh, Toronto, Canada (2019)
Propagating Hindi, Sanskrit, Music and Indian Culture abroad for last 53 years.
Hobbies :
Poetry and Lyric, Music, Sketching, Numismatics, Web Design, Languages learning.
