Misra, Virendra Nath

Basic Biographical Information

Virendra Nath Misra (Fig. 1) was born on 17 August 1935 to a farming family in Kandauli village in Farrukhabad district of Uttar Pradesh. In 1951 he became the first student from his village to graduate from high school, which he did at Rastogi School (latter K. R. Rastogi Inter College), Farrukhabad. In 1953 Misra passed his intermediate examination as well as the Visharad examination of Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, Allahabad. In 1954 he stood in first position and passed the Prarthanacertificate examination in Sanskrit from the Government Sanskrit College, Banaras, and won a four-year government scholarship to pursue further studies in Sanskrit. He passed his B.A. entrance examination in 1955 and joined Lucknow University in 1955. He was awarded a two-year bursary scholarship from Lucknow University in recognition of his performance at the B.A entrance examination. He passed his M.A. entrance examination in 1957 and stood first in order of merit in his...