V. R. Prabodhachandran Nayar
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V.R. Prabodhachandran Nayar | |
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![]() V R Prabodhachandran Nayar receiving Shreshta Malayala Basha Puraskaaram of Govt. of India, from Honorable Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkiaha Naidu (4 April 2019) New Delhi[12] | |
Born | |
Nationality | Indian |
Alma mater | Government English High School, N Parvoor BSc, studying Botany, Chemistry, English and Malayalam undergoing the program in the Union Christian College, Aluva |
Known for | Erudition and Expertise in Linguistics[13] and Phonetics[14] |
Awards | Dr. K Godavarma Memorial Gold medal (1959) Commonwealth Scholarship for post doctoral research at the School of Oriental and African Studies, university of London (1967) IC Chacko Award of the Kerala Sahitya Akademy, for the best book in scientific literature (Swanavijnaanam)1981 (Citation) CL Antony Award of the Trissur Sahridaya veedi 1998(Citation) MKKNayar Award of the MKKNayar Memorial Cultural Institute, Pakalkuri 2002 (Citation)[1] NV Krishna Variar Award for scientific literature 2011 Sakthi Thaayaatt Award for scientific literature 2011 Professor CP Menon Award for scientific literature 2013 Mukundaraja Smriti Purasakaaram of Keralakalamandalam(2014) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Reputed Teacher Linguistics[2] with specialization in Phonetics scholar[4] speaker writer composer-cum-poet[5] patron of arts[6][7][8][9][10][11] organizer |
Institutions | Kerala Kalamandalam Central University of Kerala University of Wisconsin–Madison Calicut Universitycommission Center for Developing Advanced Computing and for Imaging Technology, Trivandrum kutiyattam Center of the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi Samskrithi, a multinational organization, promoting Kerala's heritage in classical music. Vivekananda Cultural Institute, TVPM Thunchan Smaaraka Samithi, TVPM Ezhuthachan National Academy, TVPM Kilippaattu monthly, TVPM Indian Council for Cultural Relations, TVPM Center Projects Review & Steering Group of the Dept of Information and Technology, Ministry of Communication & Information Technology, Govt of India. |
V. R. Prabodhachandran Nayar (also spelled Prabodhachandran Nair), popularly known as VRP Nayar, is a Phonetics[15] expert of Kerala. He is the pioneer in the study of the phonology of the Malayalam language.[16][17][18] Apart from phonology, he is also interested in syntax and stylistics.[19]
Professional career
[edit]VRP Nayar commenced his professional career in 1959 when he was 20, as a lecturer in Malayalam in the South Travancore Hindu College Nagercoil (Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu), the then southernmost college in India. He retired as Head of the department of Linguistics, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, in August 1998. However, he is active as a teacher and was working as a Visiting Professor-cum-Coordinator, at Department of Linguistics, Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod during the years 2012 and 2013.
Association with South Travancore Hindu College,[20] helped him have exposure first to colloquial Tamil and in due course, to the classical language and literature in Tamil. Concurrently he progressed with his PhD program as a part-time Research Scholar under the guidance of Dean Professor / Dr PK Narayana Pillai, in the Department of Oriental Studies,[21] University of Kerala. He was the first recipient of University Grants Commission (India)'s[22]’s Junior Research Fellowship[23] in the Faculty of Oriental Studies in the University. In May 1963 he joined as the only Lecturer in the University's newly established Department of Linguistics and in 1965 submitted his PhD thesis entitled Descriptive Grammar of Krishnagatha[24], one of the oldest and classic poetic works by the legendary Malayalam poet Cherusseri Namboothiri. In 1967 Dr Nayar was granted a Commonwealth Scholarship for research in Phonetics and Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies in the University of London. His studies in London overshot their stipulated aims, in the sense that he successfully completed another thesis called Malayalam Verbal Forms[25][26]– A Phonetic and Phonological Study Supported by Experimental Findings which fetched him his second PhD. During this period of research he could make a study tour of a number of libraries and speech-laboratories in the UK as well as in France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Rejoining his parent Department in Thiruvananthapuram, Dr Nayar was promoted as Reader and subsequently as Professor and in 1981 as Chair-Professor, which position he held till his retirement in 1998. Simultaneously he served on several occasions in the following positions also: Member / Chair, Board of Studies in Linguistics; Member / Dean of the Faculty of Oriental Studies; Director of the International Center for Kerala Studies;[27] Member of the Advisory Committee for the Oriental Research Institute and Manuscripts Library and the Department of Malayalam Lexicon; the first Vice-Chairman of the Council Monitoring the Choice – based Credit and Semester System,[28] introduced for the first time in any University in Kerala.
During his tenure as Professor of Linguistics in the University of Kerala, Dr Nayar organized a number of Seminars, Symposiums, Conferences and Workshops at the regional, state and national levels and successfully completed several Research Projects. After his retirement from the University of Kerala, Dr Nayar served the following institutions as a Visiting Professor and in various capacities as presented here:
1998–2003 | School of Letters, Mahathma Gandhi University, Kottayam (MGU)[29] |
2003–2008 | Department of Comparative Literature and Linguistics, Sri Sankara Sanskrit University[30](in the name of Adi Shankara), Kalady |
2012–2013 | Department of Linguistics, Central University of Kerala,[31] Kasaragod |
2001–2006 | Chairman, Kerala kalamandalam |
2001–2006 | Chair, Jury for several prestigious awards, including Ezhuthachan Award and State Awards for Kathakali and for Dance |
1993–2009 | Co-ordinator, Summer in Kerala Program[32] of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA |
2003–2009 | Consultant in Linguistics, C-DAC & CDiT (Center for Developing AdvancedComputing and for Imaging Technology[33]), Thiruvananthapuram. |
2007–2011 | Member: Advisory Committee of the Kutiyattam Kendra of the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi |
Since 2007 | Chairman: Samskrithi, a multinational organization, promoting Kerala's heritage in classical music. |
Since 1998 | Chairman: Vivekananda Cultural Institute,[34] Thiruvananthapuram |
since 2000 | Chairman: Thunchan Smaaraka Samithi,[35] Thiruvananthapuram. |
Since 2005 | Chairman: Ezhuthachan National Academy,[36] Thiruvananthapuram |
Since 2006 | Chairman: Editorial Board, Kilippaattu monthly,[37] Thiruvananthapuram. |
2011–2014 | Expert Member: Indian Council for Cultural Relations,[38] Thiruvananthapuram. |
2005–2009 | Expert Member: Projects Review & Steering Group of the Dept of Information Technology,[39] Ministry of Human Resources Development,[40] Govt of India. |
Publications
[edit]Malayalam
- Vivarthhanaththinte Bhaashaasaasthrabhuumika (Translation - Its Background Linguistics), State Institute of Languages,[41] TVPM (SIL) 1974
- Svanavijnjaanam[42] (Phonetics), SIL, 1980
- Lookabhaashakal[43] (The World Languages)DC Books, 1987
- Ezhuththinte katha[44] (The Story of Writing or the Letter), The Institute of Children's Literature,[45] TVPM 1996
- Malayalam Malayaaliyolam[42] (Malayalam as Much as the Malayaali) SIL, 1999
- Cherusseri (A literary biography of the author of Krishnagatha[46]), Department of Publications, University of Kerala,1999[47]
- Uchchaaranam nannaavaan[43] (For Improvement in Pronunciation) SIL 2000
- Sailiibhamgikal[43] (The Beauties of Style) SIL 2003
- Hari Nama Keerthanam (Annotated edition of the famous 16th century hymn) Thunchan Smaraka Samithi,[35] TVPM-9, 2009
- Bhaashaasaasthradrshtiyiluute[42] (From the View point of Linguistics), SIL 2009
- Draavidabhaashakal[43] (Dravidian Languages Translation from English of MS Andranov's original book in Russian)SIL 1975
- Chittappetuththiya kathhakalippadangal[48] (Notated Kathakali songs: An anthology of 20 select pieces with introduction and notes) Keralakalamandalam 2004
- SriLalitasasahasranaamasthothramliteral explanation for Lalita Sahasranamam – (Annotated Edition with an introduction)Thunchan Smaaraka Samithi, TVPM-9, 2011
- Malayalam Verbal Forms[25] – Phonetics and Phonology of Colloquial Malayalam, with Experimental Findings, Dravidian Linguistics Association, TVPM 1972
- Malayalam: A Linguistic Description,[49][50][51][52] National Research Publications, Kazhakuttam TVPM 1973
- Malayalam for Beginners, Swantham Books, TVPM-10; 1999
- Kathakali Texts in Translation (in Phillip B Zarrilli: Kathakali-Dance Drama[53] Where Gods and Demons Come to Play 2003)
- Vidyarambham CD for Malayalam Self - Study (2001)
- Vision, insights and Innovation (Report of the Calicut University Commission, 2000)
- Malayalam for All India Service Officer Trainees, Dr. V.R. Prabodhachandran Nayar, Publisher: Institute of Management in Government(IMG), Thiruvananthapuram, 2020
- Dr. K. Raghavan Pilla-a literary biography by Dr. VRP, State Institute of Languages, 2020
- Lalitha Ganangal Prabodha sangeetham Valyam-2, National Bookstall, Kottayam 2021 March.
- Prabodhasangeetam, by Dr. V R Prabodhachandran Nayar, Kurukshetra Prakasan, Kaloor Towers, Kochi, April, 2023
Awards
[edit]- Dr. K Godavarma Memorial Gold medal (1959)
- Commonwealth Scholarship for post doctoral research at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Univ. of London (1967)
- IC Chacko Award of the Kerala Sahitya Akademy, for the best book in scientific literature (Swanavijnaanam) (Citation) (1981)
- CL Antony Award of the Trissur Sahridaya veedi (Citation) (1998)
- MKKNayar Award of the MKKNayar Memorial Cultural Institute, Pakalkuri (Citation) (2002)
- NV Krishna Variar Award for scientific literature (2011)
- Sakthi Thaayaatt Award for scientific literature (2011)
- Professor CP Menon Award for scientific literature (Citation) (2013)
- (Mukunda Raajaa) Smriti Puraskaaram of Keralakalamandalam 9 November 2014)
- Shreshta Malayala Basha Puraskaram, Govt. of India, 4 April 2019.
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ "MKK Nair Cultural Centre Silver Jubilee- The New Indian Express". newindianexpress.com. Retrieved 25 January 2017.[dead link]
- ^ Nayar, VR Prabodhachandran : ‘Malayalam’, in International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics ed in chief RE Asher, Oxford:Pergamon Press1994, Vol.5.pp.2350-2351
- ^ A number of books have been prescribed as text books and / reference works for graduate and postgraduate courses of study in Linguistics and languages in universities including the following: University of Kerala;Sri Sankarachaarya University of Sanskrit, Kalady; Mahathma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Calicut University, Kannur University, Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod; Madurai Kamaraj
- ^ Introduction to Kerala Studies Vol I (Ed J V Vilanilam, Antony Palackal and Sunny Luke: Published by International Institute for Scientific and Academic Collaboration, inc., New Jersey, USA, 2012. The reference is to Dr VRP Nayar’s article ‘Malayalam in the cultural life of the Keralites’, pp 457 – 472
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- ^ ww.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/...fall.../article5895603.ece
- ^ Nayar, V. r Prabodhachandran (6 September 2013). "Word by witty word - Thrissur - The Hindu". The Hindu. thehindu.com. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
- ^ Zarrilli, Phillip, Kathakali Dance-Drama:Where Gods and Demons Come to Play, London, Routledge 2000. pp. 1-13,65-97
- ^ Theeyaattam
- ^ Dr. Sanjay Kumar Sinha. IFS, MHRD, Department of Higher Education, Govt. Of India,SHASTRI BHAWAN, New Delhi (15 January 2019). "dr vr prabhodhachandran nayar bags first sreshta bhasha award for his contribution to Mmalayalam language".
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