V. R. Prabodhachandran Nayar

V.R. Prabodhachandran Nayar

V R Prabodhachandran Nayar receiving Mukundaraja Smriti Puraskaaram of Keralakalamandalam (2014 November 9)[1] from His Excellency the Governor of Kerala Justice P Sadasivam in the presence of Kerala State Minister of Cultural Affairs Sri KC Joseph and the Vice-Chancellor of Keralakalamandalam Shri. P.Suresh
Born (1938-08-04) 4 August 1938
North Paravoor, EranakulamDistrict, Kerala, India
Residence India
Nationality Indian
Fields

Reputed Teacher
Linguistics[2] with specialization in Phonetics
theory and practice of translation and Malayalam studies

educationist[3]
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.
Alma mater

Government English High School, N Parvoor
BSc, studying Botany, Chemistry, English and Malayalam undergoing the program in the Union Christian College, Aluva
, MA degree in the Malayalam Language and Literature in 1959, studying in the University College, Thiruvananthapuram
PhD degree in Malayalam Studies from the University of Kerala (1967)

PhD degree is in Phonetics and Linguistics (1970), completing the course work in the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Known for Erudition and Expertise in Linguistics[12] and Phonetics[13]
Notable 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)[14]
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)

V. R. Prabodhachandran Nayar (also spelled Prabodhachandran Nair), popularly known as VRP Nayar, is a Phonetics[15][16] and Linguistics[17] expert of Kerala. He is the pioneer in the study of the phonology of the Malayalam language.[18][19][20] Apart from phonology, he is also interested in syntax and stylistics.[21]

Professional career

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 southern-most 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,[22] 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,[23] University of Kerala. He was the first recipient of University Grants Commission (India)'s[24]’s Junior Research Fellowship[25] 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[26], 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[27][28]– 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;[29] 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,[30] 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)[31]
2003 -2008 Department of Comparative Literature and Linguistics, Sri Sankara Sanskrit University[32](in the name of Adi Shankara), Kalady
2012 –2013 Department of Linguistics, Central University of Kerala,[33] 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[34] of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
2003-2009 Consultant in Linguistics, C-DAC & CDiT (Center for Developing AdvancedComputing and for Imaging Technology[35]), 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,[36] Thiruvananthapuram
since 2000 Chairman: Thunchan Smaaraka Samithi,[37] Thiruvananthapuram.
Since 2005 Chairman: Ezhuthachan National Academy,[38] Thiruvananthapuram
Since 2006 Chairman: Editorial Board, Kilippaattu monthly,[39] Thiruvananthapuram.
2011-2014 Expert Member: Indian Council for Cultural Relations,[40] Thiruvananthapuram.
2005-2009 Expert Member: Projects Review & Steering Group of the Dept of Information Technology,[41] Ministry of Human Resources Development,[42] Govt of India.

Publications

Malayalam

English

Awards

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/Kalamandalam-Awards-Declared/2014/10/02/article2458980.ece
  2. ↑ Nayar, VR Prabodhachandran : ‘Malayalam’, in International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics ed in chief RE Asher, Oxford:Pergamon Press1994, Vol.5.pp.2350-2351
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ 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
  5. ↑ http://www.brehathsangeet.com/malayalam-krithis/
  6. ↑ http://thiraseela.com/main/specialStories.php?id=260
  7. ↑ http://thiraseela.com/main/specialStories.php?id=409
  8. ↑ ww.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/...fall.../article5895603.ece
  9. ↑ http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/word-by-witty-word/article5097963.ece
  10. ↑ Zarrilli, Phillip, Kathakali Dance-Drama:Where Gods and Demons Come to Play, London, Routledge 2000. pp. 1-13,65-97
  11. ↑ Theeyaattam
  12. ↑ http://www.thehindu.com/books/encyclopaedia-of-linguistics/article3580724.ece
  13. ↑ Granthalokam, July 2012, PP64, review of "Bhasha Shastra Nighantu" by Associate Professor, M. Sreenathan, Dravida University, Andhra Pradesh
  14. ↑ http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/.../MKK-Nair.../article2592647.ece
  15. ↑ Nayar, VR Prabodhachandran. "Phonology of Verbal Forms in Colloquial Malayalam." PhD diss., University of London, 1970.
  16. ↑ http://translation.babylon.com/english/V.+R.+Prabodhachandran+Nair/
  17. ↑ http://books.google.co.in/books/about/Malayalam_a_Linguistic_Description.html?id=PNgZAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y
  18. ↑ https://books.google.co.in/books?isbn=1845450159
  19. ↑ swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz307797112inh.pdf;jsessionid...?1342963409091
  20. ↑ catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/234406
  21. ↑ https://books.google.co.in/books?isbn=1136100849
  22. ↑ http://www.sthinducollege.in/history.asp
  23. ↑ http://www.keralauniversity.ac.in/departments
  24. ↑ http://www.ugc.ac.in/
  25. ↑ http://www.examrace.com › Major Scholarships › General Scholarships
  26. ↑ Cherusseri Namboothiri
  27. ↑ books.google.com › Foreign Language Study › Indic Languages
  28. ↑ http://www.amazon.com/Malayalam-verbal-forms-phonological-experimental/dp/B0007AJQ1C
  29. ↑ http://www.kerala.gov.in/index.php?option=com_content&id=3405:university-of-kerala&Itemid=2470
  30. ↑ http://www.keralauniversity.ac.in/departments-centres-and-other-institutions.html
  31. ↑ http://www.mguniversity.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=290&Itemid=504
  32. ↑ http://www.ssus.ac.in/index/academic_council
  33. ↑ http://cukerala.ac.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=259&Itemid=329&lang=en
  34. ↑ http://coursefever.com/india/university-of-wisconsin-madison-international-academic-programs-iap-summer-india/
  35. ↑ http://cdac.in/
  36. ↑ https://foursquare.com/v/vivekananda-cultural-institute/52580e3a498ed6e6b88474b3
  37. ↑ http://www.thunchan.org/
  38. ↑ http://www.charity.org.in/view_charity_org.php?lid=12666&name=Ezhuthachan%20National%20Academy
  39. ↑ http://www.thunchan.org/kilippattu_masika.php
  40. ↑ http://www.iccrindia.net/thiruvananthapuram.html
  41. ↑ deity.gov.in/
  42. ↑ mhrd.gov.in/
  43. ↑ http://www.keralabhashainstitute.org/
  44. ↑ http://www.pagelamp.com/tvpm.in
  45. ↑ https://sites.google.com/site/vrpnayar/books&reports
  46. ↑ edwardbetts.com/find_link/institute_of_Children%2527s_Literature
  47. ↑ http://www.ksicl.org/eng/
  48. ↑ http://www.pagelamp.com/tvpm.in
  49. ↑ https://books.google.co.in/books?id=dqGojPpe8DIC
  50. ↑ http://www.keralauniversity.ac.in/images/publications/malayalamb.pdf
  51. ↑ https://sites.google.com/site/vrpnayar/books&reports
  52. ↑ https://sites.google.com/site/vrpnayar/books&reports
  53. ↑ http://www.thunchan.org/
  54. ↑ http://www.pagelamp.com/tvpm.in
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  59. ↑ http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/theatre/play-of-manodharma/article3476373.ece http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/theatre/touchstone-of-artistic-expression/article2853807.ece
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  62. ↑ books.google.com › Foreign Language Study › Indic Languages
  63. ↑ http://www.abebooks.com/Malayalam-Linguistic-Description
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