Siyaram Tiwari


Siyaram Tiwari is a prominent Hindi professor, scholar and author known throughout India and abroad.

Education

After teaching in several colleges of Bihar, Tiwari joined Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, an institution founded by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore and now a central university as a reader in the Department of Hindi in January, 1976. In due course, he rose to the rank of professor and became head of the Department of Hindi as well as dean of the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences. After final retirement in 1999 he was invited as a visiting professor in the University of Hyderabad in 2000 and Hungarian Transylvania University in the year 2006. He served Nalanda Open University, Patna as chief co-ordinator in the Faculty of Languages for three years.

Recent work – Jo Yeh Padhe Hanuman Chalisa

Tiwari has published a comprehensive commentary on the most popular hymn of Lord Hanuman named Hanuman Chalisa with the name "Jo Yeh Padhe Hanuman Chalisa". Forty verses of the hymn have been explained so elaborately that the work has covered about 250 pages.

Distinction

He visited Romania in 2006 for delivering lectures.

Published works