It is a thing of great pleasure and godsend for me to write a 'foreword' for a book of Hindi Grammar in its second edition, by Dr. M. P. Pandey who is always on the alert for accountable accumulation of learning and knowledge at sixes and sevens which requires a great zeal and sense of perpetuity and peremptory. I found him without work and churning of some academic or literary problem once in the blue moon and this is the real and rare quality of a University teacher. To me a university teacher doesn't mean for the college or institution only where he or she teaches, he is there for all the students, scholars and the persons having thirst for knowledge, of any place or time in the universe. Inter alia the teaching and curricular activities, it is a pious and voluntary but very essential duty of a university teacher to write something in form of research articles, essays, books and creative writings from which he could attain Summum bonum-the highest good of his/her potentiality through which one can prove the worthiness of entity in the world. Otherwise it is all in vain, meaningless, as said in a verse of mine:
"Tum bhaye boza badha, raha jug jyon ka tyon Ajagal se tum yahan aaye kabira kyon."
I like Dr. Pandey for his very aforesaid virtues and qualities and not for a crow thinks her own bird the fuirest. Business is the salt of life and it is true that what is bred in the bones will come out of the flesh. He has added a feather not to his own cap only but to the cap of Maharaja Sayajirao University also as he has been conferred the Hindi Sahitya Academy award on his recent published book on a major medieval Hindi Poet Goswami Tulasidas. Only a scholar teacher, ever reading and writing teacher can make a name of the institution and no doubt if I say Dr. Pandey can be an asset of any academic institution having a goal of to be centered for learning. It is a fact that perfectness only comes by writing as you set the things of your stored knowledge with a new order or dimension, and acuteness. Five books and several articles to his credit Dr. Pandey with full enthusiasm is active on writing even topics useful for school and University students.
To write a book on Grammar is easy as well as very difficult. Easy in a way if you are doing a job of editing the known written facts elsewhere, but difficult in a way if you want to add something new, if some new horizons are opened, I think Dr. Pandey has chosen the second difficult path. This is the second and expanded edition of his book which proved its utility among the students and teachers. Shri Kamata Prasad Guru, Dr. Hardev Bahari, Dr. Udayanarayan Tiwari, Dr. Bholanath Tiwari, Dr. Kailashchand Bhatiya, Shri Ramchandra Verma are some esteemed scholars in this sphere, but as said by Abhinav Gupta Na tu apurvam Kinchit a constant dialogue is essential indeed for the language and literary conscience. Moreover Dr. Pandey has written this book, keeping in mind the students of Gujarat region, as he had worked on both the languages. Here one can find the sense of accumen of Dr. Pandey. He is fair and square as for as the sincerity, punctuality and hardwork is concerned. Example is better than precept, as the book is in your hand.
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