"It was a wonderful experience interacting with you and appreciate the way you have planned and executed the whole publication process within the agreed timelines.”
Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
I was selected as an external expert examiner for his dissertation. I have read the book from start to finish for fifteen days. I took extra time to read it …. it pulled me; it pulled me to adhyātma. Such a good book. I read it with much eagerness and enjoyed it very much. Even I was unable to write a book like this. It took me back to all that I had studied in my youth. I understood the Gītā again as I had understood it as a student. … … Listening to him, I remembered my Guru paramparā, my Vyasa paramparā, my own student days. … It was such an adbhut viva, great experience, unforgettable and ever memorable. ..
I did PhD and have worked as a Head of Department in SVYASA in 2012 and have worked as Vice Chancellor of SVYASA. We must try and reach the level I have seen and experienced in this case. There have been PhD’s, but none like this. .. I returned from my journey and am back home but I still remember that Vyasa paramparā. This is the way. This is the quality we have to maintain. (Extracted from an audio message to his disciple after the presentation of this dissertation where he was Chief Examiner)
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Prof. Ramachandra G. Bhatt, Former Vice Chancellor, S.Vyasa University, Bangalore, Chairman, Veda Vijnana Shodha Samsthana, Bangalore, and Convener, Karnataka Gurukula Education.
Kr. Fateh Singh Jasol
Published author, poet and translator, the author is a former career civil servant (Indian Administrative Service, 1965-2002). His interests include ornithology, nature conservation and wild life, field sports, creative writing, photography and Indian folk and classical music.
His published works and those in the pipeline include What Songs Unsung O My Daughter (Writers Workshop, Calcutta, 1999, 2010, Notion Press 2022), Jainism, An Introduction (2014), Abridged Vālmiki Rāmāyańa (2015), Essential Stories from the Srimad Bhāgavata (2015), Abridged Mahābhārata (Parts 1 & 2, 2016, 2017) The Birds of Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra (Ravi Shankaran Foundation, 2018) The Bhagavad Gītā, A New Verse Translation (Notion Press, 2021), The Nesting of Birds (awaiting publication), Birth Death and Rebirth (awaiting publication) and a prolific volume of translations of nearly all of about 40 vernacular works of Swami Rajarshi Muni, including a few hundred of his bhajans published in four volumes (Sudhabindu, Parts 1 to 4).
He graduated from St. Stephens College Delhi (Eng. Lit., 1963) and went on to do his Master’s from Jodhpur University (Eng. Lit., 1965), MPA from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, (Mason Fellowship, 1983) and concluded his academic pursuits with a PhD from the Lakulish Yoga University, Ahmedabad (The Study of the Bhagavad Gītā as Svādhyāya – A Case Study, 2018). Married to Sita Ranawat of Karoi. They have two children, Manuvikram and Anuradha.
