Ram Kinkar Upadhyay

Ram Kinkar Upadhyay is a noted scholar on Indian scriptures and a recipient of Padma Bhushan - the third highest civil award of India — in 1999.^[1] He hails from Uttar Pradesh. He was born on 1 Nov 1924 in Jabalpur. He was from village Baraini in UP. Narendra Upadhyay, Bijendra updhyay,Hemant Upadhyay, Neeraj Upadhyay, Prince Upadhyay, Radhe Mohan Upadhyay are his Kins and great follower of his teachings. He left for his heavenly abode on 9 August 2002.From the age of 19, he started writing and wrote about 92 books in an illustrious career spanning 59 years- mainly on Ramcharitmanas. He used to place his point of view without disturbing or insulting any person holding rival view.

Now his thoughts and preachings have been brought forward by his shishya Umashankar Byas and MaithiliSharan (a.k.a. Bhai Ji). Umashanker left his home at an early age of 13 in charan vandana (devotion) of Gurujee. Later Umashankar's brother in law Bhai jee also joined. He has contributed to launch a website to spread the thoughts of Pujya Ramkinkar Upadhayay. The word 'kinkar' is taken from 'Ramcharitmanas'. It means one who is chosen to serve God.

References

↑ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved July 21, 2015.

External links

http://www.ramkinker.com

Padma Bhushan award recipients (1990–99)

1990	Rajanikant Arole Bimal Kumar Bachhawat Purushottam Laxman Deshpande Sattaiyappa Dhandapani Desikar L. K. Doraiswamy Nikhil Ghosh B. K. Goyal Jasraj Mohammad Khalilullah R. N. Malhotra Bimal Krishna Matilal Inder Mohan Sumant Moolgaokar Hirendranath Mukherjee C. D. Narasimhaiah M. S. Narasimhan Kunwar Singh Negi Trilochan Pradhan N. Ram Sukumar Sen Arun Shourie Julius Silverman M. R. Srinivasan M. S. Valiathan

1991	Ebrahim Alkazi Lala Amarnath Narayan Shridhar Bendre Shyam Benegal D. B. Deodhar Amjad Ali Khan Dilip Kumar Narayan Singh Manaklao Muthu Krishna Mani Ram Narayan Fali Sam Nariman Kapil Dev Manubhai Pancholi Shakuntala Paranjpye Bindeshwar Pathak Samta Prasad Basavaraj Rajguru Prathap C. Reddy Amala Shankar Kusumagraj Kuthur Ramakrishnan Srinivasan Ale Ahmad Suroor Leslie Denis Swindale Jiwan Singh Umranangal

1992	Bijoy Chandra Bhagavati Debu Chaudhuri Hariprasad Chaurasia Thayil John Cherian Ranjan Roy Daniel Virendra Dayal B. Saroja Devi Khem Singh Gill Vavilala Gopalakrishnayya Anna Hazare Hakim Abdul Hameed Jaggayya Girish Karnad Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan Triloki Nath Khoshoo Goro Koyama Adusumalli Radha Krishna T. N. Krishnan Ramachandra Datatraya Lele Talat Mahmood Syed Abdul Malik Dalsukh Dahyabhai Malvania Sonal Mansingh M. Sarada Menon Naushad Setu Madhavrao Pagdi Hasmukhbhai Parekh C. Narayana Reddy Mrinalini Sarabhai Gursaran Talwar Brihaspati Dev Triguna K. Venkatalakshamma C. R. Vyas

1998	U. R. Ananthamurthy Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya Satyapal Dang Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon H. K. Dua Maligali Ram Krishna Girinath Hemlata Gupta K. M. Mathew G. Madhavan Nair Rajendra Singh Paroda Gurukumar Balachandra Parulkar Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman Bhisham Sahni Vempati Chinna Satyam Laxmi Mall Singhvi V. M. Tarkunde Panangipalli Venugopal

1999	S. S. Badrinath Jag Parvesh Chandra Jacob Cherian Pushpalata Das Sohrab Pirojsha Godrej George Joseph Anil Kakodkar D. C. Kizhakemuri Ashok Kumar Vidya Niwas Mishra Krishnamurthy Santhanam H. D. Shourie Shivmangal Singh Suman Ram Kinkar Upadhyay

1954–59 1960–69 1970–79 1980–89 1990–99 2000–09 2010–19

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