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Hindu-Ratna Award recipient, and Creator of the popular Sarasvati font, Dr. Ratnakar Narale has Ph.D. from IIT, Kharagpur and Ph.D. from Kalidas Sanskrit University, Nagpur, India. He is a lyricist and musician. Ratnakar is Prof. of Hindi at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. He has studied Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Urdu and Tamil languages and has written books for learning these languages. He has written excellent and unique books on Gita, Ramayana and Music. His books have been applauded with TV interviews and articles by news and print media, such as ATN News Channel, OMNI News Channel, Hindi Times, The Hitwad, The Tarun Bharat, the Lokmat, The Sakal, Des Pardes, Nav Bharat Times, Sahitya Amrit, The Voice, The Indian Express, World Hindi Secretariat, Mauritius, ... etc. He has received citations from some of the most prominent people as, Hon. Atal Vihari Vajpai, Prime Minister of India; Hon. Basdeo Panday, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobaggo; Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi, Federal HRD Minister of India; Ashok Singhal, President, VHP, New Delhi; etc. His music compositions are endorsed by such great ndian music Maestros as Bharat Ratna Dr. Ustad Bismillah Khan Trust, New Delhi; Padma Vibhushan Amjad Ali Khan, New Delhi; Padmashri Ustad Ghulam Sadiq Khan, New Delhi; Music Maestro Rashid Mustafa Thirakwa, New Delhi; Padmabhushan Ustad Sabri Khan, New Delhi; Padmabhushan Pandit Debu Chaudhuri, New Delhi; Pun¿d¿it Birju Mahataj, New Delhi; etc.
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