Author: Ashok Kumar Jha

Beginning with his doctoral dissertation on Oriental Influences in T. S. Eliot (1988), in the seventies Dr. A. K. Jha was led to a variety of texts in translation from the Indian literature in Sanskrit and Pali. A creative extension of his academic interests over four decades has taken him to rendering into English Kalidasa’s great classic Meghadutam in vers libre. Among other posts and assignments he came to have in his long career, he was Professor of English in the Department of English, B. R. A. Bihar University, Muzaffarpur in India and the Faculty of Arts, Taiz University in Yemen. He was also a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla between 1985 and 1987. His publications include a number of essays and articles on various topics in different languages such as Kabir in Tagore’s Translation, Lochan-Vimarsh and the Dhvanyalok, besides his translation of a Sahitya Akademi monograph on Nammalwar, the Tamil poet-saint, translated from English into Maithili.