N. Chandrasekharan Nair

N. Chandrasekharan Nair is a noted Hindi scholar. He founded Kerala Hindi Sahitya Academy and was former Head of the Department of Hindi at Mahatma Gandhi College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He received the Ministry of Human Resource Development’s award for Hindi writers in non-Hindi speaking areas for 2004-05 and the 2008 Maharashtra Hindi Sahitya Academy award. He has campaigned to have Hindi declared India's official language.

He is the recipient of India's highly prestigious award Padma Shri 2020 for his work in the field of literature and education.

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