Padamshree Shri Kumarpal Desai

Shri Kumarpal Desai (61), has been awarded the Padma Shri by the Govt. of India. He is a many-faceted personality. Director of Gujarat University’s School of Languages and Dean of Faculty of Arts, Desai is an eminent litterateur, columnist, sportswriter and a scholar of Jainism and has more than 110 books to his credit of which nine have received awards from Central and state governments. He started writing at  the age of eleven and now guides research students in the fields of Gujarati literature, journalism and Jain philosophy.

He has received several awards including ‘Ahimsa International , Deeptimal Adishwarlal Award for Literature for 1997’, Best sports journalist award, Gujarat Ratna, Jain Jyotirdhar Award, President’s Special Award ‘Diwaliben Mohanlal Mehta Charitable Trust award for promoting spiritual values and Indian Culture’, Jain Ratna’ award and many more.

Sh. Desai regularly delivers lectures on Jainism in the US, UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, Belgium and Kenya. He attended as a key speaker on Jainism at the seventh biennial Jain convention at Pittsburgh in July 1993 and had addressed the World Parliament of Religions at Chicago (1993) and again at Cape Town in South Africa (1999). Desai was a member of the Jain delegation, which had an audience with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican.

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