Siyaram Tiwari
Siyaram Tiwari (born 5 December 1934) is a prominent Hindi professor, scholar and author known throughout India and abroad. Career. After teaching in several colleges of Bihar, Tiwari joined Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan (West Bengal), an institution founded by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore and now a central university as a reader in the Department of Hindi in January, 1976. In due course, he rose to the rank of professor and became head of the Department of Hindi as well as dean of the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences. After final retirement in 1999 he was invited as a visiting  professor in the University of Hyderabad in 2000 and Hungarian Transylvania University (Romania) in the year 2006. He served Nalanda Open University, Patna as chief co-ordinator in the Faculty of Languages for three years. Recent work – Jo Yeh Padhe Hanuman Chalisa. Tiwari has published a comprehensive commentary on the most popular hymn of Lord Hanuman named Hanuman Chalisa with the name "Jo Yeh Padhe Hanuman Chalisa". Forty verses of the hymn have been explained so elaborately that the work has covered about 250 pages. Foreign country visited. He visited Romania in 2006 for delivering lectures.