Prof. Apoorvanand Jha is the editor of CSD’s newly launched Hindi social science quarterly, Samajik. A professor of Hindi at the University of Delhi, he was born and raised in Siwan, Bihar where he completed his under graduation from Bihar University. He completed his Masters and PhD from Patna University and has worked on the development of Marxist aesthetics in Hindi literature. He started his teaching career at T.P.S. College, Patna, a constituent unit of Magadh University. In 1999, he was invited to join Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University, a central university set up by the Government of India, and was instrumental in developing the University’s vision plan and first academic programme. In 2004, Prof. Jha joined the University of Delhi’s Hindi Department where he was instrumental in redesigning the department’s academic programme. Prof. Jha was part of the core group that designed the National Curriculum Framework for School Education in 2005 and was a member of the national Focus Group on Teaching of Indian Languages formed by the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT). He has worked with the Committee to Advise on Renovation and Rejuvenation of Higher Education in India under the Chairmanship of Professor Yashpal. Prof. Apoorvanand has published two books of essays in literary criticism: Sundar ka Swapana and Sahitya Ka Ekant. His critical essays have appeared in all major Hindi journals. Apart from his academic and literary writings, he also a columnist in leading newspapers, magazines and online sites broadly writing on issues of education, culture, communalism, violence and human rights.
