Author of eight books and more than ninety articles based on extensive research, Dr. Choudhury was an invited member of a team of scholars chosen by the Sahitya Akademi to prepare 'A Critical Inventory of Ramayana Studies in the World' as part of a joint project of the Sahitya Akademi and Union Academique International of Bruxelles, Belgium.
He was a recipient of the Banshidhar Acharya Memorial Gold Medal for his outstanding performance as a scholar of Information Science. He also has been a ting Faculty at the Agarwal College Maharshi Dayananda University), Ballabgarh, Haryana. Professional attainments apart, Dr. Choudhury has established himself as a person of distinction, with a keen interest in the promotion of the arts and humanities. He values a fellowship of like-minded individuals who love to learn and to disseminate new learning in the community as well as beyond it, in the knowledge-seeking wider world of the present age.
What remains common to all these exercises is the realization that knowledge is an objective, dispassionate "common pursuit" of enlightenment. As an input to the above integrating view of learning the present book of essays by Dr. Ashok Kumar Choudhury is a valuable achievement. Instead of assembling one's own ideas and opinions in relation to a particular subject, Dr. Choudhury has put together some thirty-two essays written on a variety of topics relating to a selection of eminent authors of our country. He has chosen the humbler path of a provider of learning material to all those interested.
I am indebted to the concerned editors for giving space to my writing. This collection of articles is not intended to be simply a miscellany. Assembled at one place for a larger readership with no pretension of being scholarly, the purpose behind the collection is to create an ambience of mutuality between the authors and readers in the common pursuit of knowledge and scholarship. It seeks to provide readers with some insights into the wide variety of ways in which some of India's foremost authors chose to express themselves. If it succeeds to some extent in doing so I should deem my purpose to have been amply served.
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