Himachal Pradesh Governor Shiv Pratap Shukla said the teachers and students are the wealth of the nation and it is the responsibility of the society to take care of them. He was speaking as the chief guest at inaugural function of one-day national seminar on ‘Independent India: Literature, Society and Cultural Journalism’ organised on the occasion of 75th birth anniversary of Prof Prabhu Nath Dwivedi at Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth (MGKV) here on Friday. The seminar was organised under the joint aegis of Mahamana Madan Mohan Malviya Institute of Hindi Journalism of MGKV and Rajkumari Devi Smriti Shodh Sansthan. “The study and teaching of Prof Prabhu Nath Dwivedi was a university in itself. What a teacher and scholar he was as his creativity was clear and he expressed the concept of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam through literature,” he said, recalling the period of Emergency, Shukla said that the question mark on the editorial page of newspapers on June 26 reflects the social values of journalism. “Society and magazines are related to each other. The cultural value of new journalism is based on social values,” he said. Highlighting the success of Chandrayaan-3, he congratulated everyone and said today our country is touching the sky under efficient leadership. He said that independent India’s journalism was complete with Satyam Shivam Sundaram. Addressing the function as guest of honour, UP Minister of State (Independent Charge) Dr Dayashankar Mishra ‘Dayalu’ also recalled the contribution of Prof Prabhu Nath Dwivedi in Sanskrit literature. “Kashi is the centre of literature,” he said.
Presiding over the function, MGKV Vice Chancellor Prof Anand Kumar Tyagi said that Sanskrit is the language of science and today the entire education world is talking about knowledge. He said knowledge originated from the land of India. “We have to take our knowledge not only to ourselves but to the world level. India’s knowledge traditions have to be maintained and developed. This will increase the pride of the nation,” Prof Tyagi said.
At the beginning, a souvenir ‘Na Kadapi Vismaryam’ was released in the memory of Prof Prabhu Nath Dwivedi. Along with this, Acharya Sadashiv Kumar Dwivedi of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) was honoured with ‘Sanskrit Seva Samman’ for the year 2023. He was awarded with a cash amount of 111,000 on behalf of Rajkumari Devi Smriti Shodh Sansthan. Director of the institute Prof Anurag Kumar, programme coordinator Dr Nagendra Kumar Singh, Dr Dayanand, Dr Santosh Mishra, Dr Anand Kumar Singh ‘Anu’, Dr Shriram Tripathi, Dr Ravindra Pathak, Dr Jayaprakash Srivastava, Dr Jinesh Kumar, Dr Devashish Verma, Dr Shiv Kumar Yadav, Shailesh Chaurasia, Ramatma Srivastava, Mohammad Javed and others were also present.